Introduction The purpose of this review was to determine the diagnostic accuracy of cone-
beam computed tomographic (CBCT) imaging in detecting vertical root fractures (VRFs) in …

Real-world optimization problems typically involve multiple objectives to be optimized
simultaneously under multiple constraints and with respect to several variables. While multi …

Pollen exposure weakens the immunity against certain seasonal respiratory viruses by
diminishing the antiviral interferon response. Here we investigate whether the same applies …

A comprehensive understanding of the relationships among ecosystem services (ES) is
important for landscape management, decision-making and policy development, but …

Publisher Description (unedited publisher data) An essential textbook for any student or
researcher in biology needing to design experiments, sampling programs or analyse the …

Background Child maltreatment is a pressing social problem in the USA and internationally.
There are increasing calls for the use of a public health approach to child maltreatment, but …

Conventional statistical methods have a very serious flaw: They routinely miss differences
among groups or associations among variables that are detected by more modern …

This article proposes an informative exploratory tool, the functional boxplot, for visualizing
functional data, as well as its generalization, the enhanced functional boxplot. Based on the …

The “trophic level enrichment” between diet and body results in an overall increase in
nitrogen isotopic values as the food chain is ascended. Quantifying the diet–body Δ15N …

Requiring no prior training, Modern Statistics for the Social and Behavioral Sciences
provides a two-semester, graduate-level introduction to basic statistical techniques that …