Publications

Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence

"Responding to the United States' forever wars, leading scholar Judith Butler explores how mourning can inspire solidarity."

The species Severe acute respiratory syndrome-related coronavirus: classifying 2019-nCoV and naming it SARS-CoV-2

Genetics of Food Intake Self-Regulation in Childhood: Literature Review and Research Opportunities

Pediatric obesity results from a daily energy imbalance between intake and expenditure, an imbalance potentially as slight as ∼30-50 kcal/day (e.g., a few extra sips of cola or ...

Remdesivir for the Treatment of Covid-19 — Final Report

Our data show that remdesivir was superior to placebo in shortening the time to recovery in adults who were hospitalized with Covid-19 and had evidence of lower respiratory trac...

Novel approach to nonlinear/non-Gaussian Bayesian state estimation

An algorithm, the bootstrap filter, is proposed for implementing recursive Bayesian filters. The required density of the state vector is represented as a set of random samples, ...

Fractional Brownian Motions, Fractional Noises and Applications

Previous article Next article Fractional Brownian Motions, Fractional Noises and ApplicationsBenoit B. Mandelbrot and John W. Van NessBenoit B. Mandelbrot and John W. Van Nessht...

Innovation and Learning: The Two Faces of R & D

Journal Article Innovation and Learning: The Two Faces of R & D Get access Wesley M. Cohen, Wesley M. Cohen Carnegie Mellon University Search for other works by this author on: ...

Model Selection and Estimation in Regression with Grouped Variables

Summary We consider the problem of selecting grouped variables (factors) for accurate prediction in regression. Such a problem arises naturally in many practical situations with...

Culture and the Evolutionary Process

Culture and the evolutionary process Culture and the evolutionary process. Robert Boyd, Peter J. Richerson(ed.), 1985. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago viii + 331 pages....

Competing Technologies, Increasing Returns, and Lock-In by Historical Events

Journal Article Competing Technologies, Increasing Returns, and Lock-In by Historical Events Get access W. Brian Arthur W. Brian Arthur Stanford University Search for other work...

Taxonomic Note: A Place for DNA-DNA Reassociation and 16S rRNA Sequence Analysis in the Present Species Definition in Bacteriology

Because a natural entity "species" cannot be recognized as a group of strains that is genetically well separated from its phylogenetic neighbors, a pragmatic approach was taken ...

Additive logistic regression: a statistical view of boosting (With discussion and a rejoinder by the authors)

Boosting is one of the most important recent developments in\nclassification methodology. Boosting works by sequentially applying a\nclassification algorithm to reweighted versi...