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Tilastollisia luokittelumenetelmiä koneelliseen tunnistamiseen : sovellus pohjaeläinaineistoon
2010
Pohjaeläimiä käytetään biologisessa seurannassa, jolla tutkitaan ihmistoiminnan vaikutuksia vesistöjen ympäristön tilaan. Perinteisesti pohjaeläimet tunnistetaan manuaalisesti. Tässä työssä tarkastellaan, miten pohjaeläimiä tunnistetaan koneellisesti käyttäen luokittelumenetelmiä, jotka ovat tuottaneet hyviä tuloksia planktoneilla. Pohjaeläinten tapauksessa on tärkeää saavuttaa mahdollisimman tarkat estimaatit lajien suhteellisille osuuksille. Tätä varten tarkastellaan sekaannusmatriisikorjauksena tunnettua menetelmää lajiosuuksien estimaateille. Pohjaeläimet ovat vesistöjen pohjassa eläviä selkärangattomia eläimiä, jotka reagoivat nopeasti ympäristön muutoksiin. Niiden runsaussuhteiden muu…
Inter-crystal scatter in positron emission tomography: Identification techniques and effects on reconstructed images for AX-PET demonstrator
2012
La PET es una técnica de imagen en medicina nuclear que permite la visualización in-vivo y en 3D de procesos funcionales en seres vivos. Un escáner PET mide los rayos gamma producidos al aniquilarse un positrón, el cual es emitido por un radioisótopo inyectado al paciente. La eficiencia del sistema es una característica crucial de los escáneres PET de alta resolución dedicados a la imagen del cerebro o de animales pequeños con el fin de obtener una imagen más fiel o de reducir la actividad del radiotrazador, y por consiguiente, la dosis inyectada al paciente. El objetivo de este trabajo de investigación es mejorar la eficiencia y calidad de imagen de un prototipo de escáner PET axial (AX-PE…
Worldwide trends in blood pressure from 1975 to 2015: a pooled analysis of 1479 population-based measurement studies with 19.1 million participants
2017
Background Raised blood pressure is an important risk factor for cardiovascular diseases and chronic kidney disease. We estimated worldwide trends in mean systolic and mean diastolic blood pressure, and the prevalence of, and number of people with, raised blood pressure, defined as systolic blood pressure of 140 mm Hg or higher or diastolic blood pressure of 90 mm Hg or higher. Methods For this analysis, we pooled national, subnational, or community population-based studies that had measured blood pressure in adults aged 18 years and older. We used a Bayesian hierarchical model to estimate trends from 1975 to 2015 in mean systolic and mean diastolic blood pressure, and the prevalence of rai…
Archéologie de l'architecture carolingienne en France, état de la question
2002
Place: Zagreb-Motovun
The Bayesian estimation of private investment in Finland
2009
Abstract This paper estimates an investment equation for private investment using Bayesian estimation techniques. In the paper we derive the optimal capital accumulation behavior in the model economy from the households’ optimization problem of utility. The equation is derived as in Smets and Wouters (2003). The model contains costly adjustment of investment and random shocks to adjustment cost function. The driving variable of investment is Tobin Q variable. The empirical proxy for Tobin Q in this paper is the ratio of OMX Helsinki Cap Index to the price index of the physical capital. The investment series is the seasonally adjusted private investment in quarterly national accounts. The AR…
Molecular and biometric data on Carabus (Macrothorax) morbillosus Fabricius, 1792 (Coleoptera, Carabidae) from Mid Mediterranean areas
2022
The present study was carried out using molecular and biometric data of Carabus (Macrothorax) morbillosus from mid-Mediterranean areas to determine additional information on basal relationships among its representative subspecies. To this aim, two different kinds of approach were employed, including a morphometric analysis of four morphological parameters (i.e., elytra length, elytra width, pronotum length, pronotum width) of 128 specimens, and a Bayesian genetic analysis of 44 cytochrome oxidase subunit I (COI) partial sequences (i.e., 38 examined for the first time and six retrieved from GenBank database). Representative populations of C. (M.) morbillosus were sampled in four countries, n…
Puuttuvan tiedon käsittely aivosähkökäyrämittauksissa
2016
Aivosähkökäyrämittaukset ovat tyypillisesti hyvin työläitä ja pitkäkestoisia. Näiden seikkojen johdosta otoskoot ovat usein pieniä. Lisäksi osa koehenkilöistä päätyy lopettamaan mittaukset kesken, tai ei jaksa keskittyä annetun ohjeistuksen mukaisesti. Näin ollen valmiiksi hyvin rajalliseen aineistoon syntyy puuttuvuutta siten, että tietyt osakokeet jäävät kokonaan mittaamatta joidenkin henkilöiden osalta. Aineistossa ilmenevä puuttuvuus on käsitelty aivojenkuvantamismittauksissa tavanomaisesti siten, että analyysiin otetaan mukaan vain niitä koehenkilöitä koskevat mittaukset, joilta ei puutu lainkaan tietoa. Tätä menetelmää kutsutaan täydellisten havaintorivien analyysiksi. Tällainen analy…
Identifying territories using presence-only citizen science data : An application to the Finnish wolf population
2022
Citizens, community groups and local institutions participate in voluntary biological monitoring of population status and trends by providing species data e.g. for regulations and conservation. Sophisticated statistical methods are required to unlock the potential of such data in the assessment of wildlife populations. We develop a statistical modelling framework for identifying territories based on presence-only citizen science data. The framework can be used to jointly estimate the number of active animal territories and their locations in time. Our approach is based on a data generating model which consists of a dynamic submodel for the appearance/removal of territories and an observatio…
Non-monophyly of the “cydnoid” complex within Pentatomoidea (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) revealed by Bayesian phylogenetic analysis of nuclear rDNA seque…
2017
The “cydnoid” complex of pentatomoid families, including Cydnidae, Parastrachiidae, Thaumastellidae, and Thyreocoridae, is morphologically defined by the presence of an array of more or less flattened stout setae (called coxal combs), situated on the distal margin of coxae. These structures, suggested to prevent the coxal-trochanteral articulation from injuries caused by particles of soil, sand or dust, by their nature and function are unknown elsewhere in the Heteroptera. As such, coxal combs were regarded as a synapomorphy of this group of families, and enabled the definition of it as a monophylum. In this study, the monophyly of the “cydnoid” complex of families is tested for the first t…
Elaborazione e validazione di modelli dell’impatto antropico e dei cambiamenti climatici sulle qualità dei suoli in Sicilia, con particolare attenzio…
Il declino della sostanza organica e l’erosione idrica sono due fattori di rischio di degrado del suolo fra i più diffusi in Sicilia. In che misura è possibile contrastarli modificando le attività antropiche ed in particolare quelle in ambito agricolo? Lo scopo della presente ricerca di dottorato è stato quello di mettere a punto dei modelli che permettessero di spiegare le relazioni esistenti fra le azioni dell’uomo in ambito agricolo con la sostanza organica e con l’erosione idrica nei suoli siciliani, tenendo conto anche del clima. Le due indagini sono state svolte separatamente, in parallelo, in aree agricole della Sicilia occidentale per la sostanza organica, sull’intero territorio sic…