Blasting is considered an indispensable process in mining excavation operations. Generally, only a small percentage of the total energy of blasting is consumed in the fragmentation and displacement of ...

This is a valuable computational study of odor responses in the early olfactory system of insects and vertebrates. The study addresses the question of how information about odor concentration is ...

A bewilderingly large number of statistical quantities have been proposed to study outliers and influence of individual observations in regression analysis. In this article we describe the ...

Public health research often concerns relationships between exposures and correlated count outcomes. When counts exhibit more 0s than expected under Poisson sampling, the zero-inflated Poisson (ZIP) ...