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First Record of Aff. Plesiosuchus sp. : Biometry, Profile of Locomotion, and Paleobiological Consequences
This is the first record of the biggest Metriorhynchidae, aff. Plesiosuchus sp. in France. The remains consist of a partial vertebral column consisting of 11 vertebrae and an ischium fragment. A new method is proposed to evaluate the individual’s size, which is estimated at 6.5 m. This method, unlike previous approaches, is based only on vertebrae and yields results that are congruent with those based on cranial remains. The state of preservation has allowed us to test the animal’s ‘profile of locomotion’ to better interpret how it moved. Concerning other metriorhynchids, the record of Dakosaurus in France based only on teeth must be reassessed, and the genus Torvoneustes, if valid, has to be distinguished from Plesiosuchus.
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Prospective longevity : a new vision of population aging
\"The study of aging is not fundamentally about how old people are. It is about people's capabilities and their disabilities. In the field of population aging, measurements have generally been made with instruments devised many decades ago. Those measurements systems did not take the changing characteristics of older people into account. Using them 65-year-olds with a remaining life expectancy of 5 years could not be distinguished from 65-year-olds with a remaining life expectancy of 25 years. Although, in the past, those instruments did help us see better, it is now clear that there is a great deal that they did not allow us to see. Prospective Longevity provide a new view of who is old, how healthy people are in old age, the gender gap in survival at older ages, differences in patterns of survival across Russian regions and United States, the effects on the pace of population aging of medical breakthroughs that allow people to live much longer lives, and how an intergenerationally equitable pension age should change as life expectancy increases\"-- Provided by publisher.
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The Origins of Forensic Anthropology in the United States
Traditional histories of forensic anthropology focus on key figures, events, and/or publications within a larger narrative of disciplinary formation and expansion. These histories typically highlight individuals such as Thomas Dwight or institutions such as the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History. This project represents an interdisciplinary collaboration with the goal of shedding new light onto the origins of forensic anthropology in the United States. By pulling from a number of published scholarly sources, as well as some unpublished correspondence, this project expands upon the more established historical events concerning the history of forensic anthropology. Here we argue that the origins of contemporary forensic anthropology not only trace back to the work of Wilton Krogman but that Krogman's forensic anthropology must be understood through the life and work of his mentor, T. Wingate Todd, as well as the Hamann-Todd Collection, early efforts toward personal identification of human skeletal remains, and a complex amalgamation of US and UK influences that Krogman was exposed to through Todd's mentorship efforts.
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Networks of networks in biology : concepts, tools and applications
Biological systems are extremely complex and have emergent properties that cannot be explained or even predicted by studying their individual parts in isolation. The reductionist approach, although successful in the early days of molecular biology, underestimates this complexity. As the amount of available data grows, so it will become increasingly important to be able to analyse and integrate these large data sets. This book introduces novel approaches and solutions to the Big Data problem in biomedicine, and presents new techniques in the field of graph theory for handling and processing multi-type large data sets. By discussing cutting-edge problems and techniques, researchers from a wide range of fields will be able to gain insights for exploiting big heterogonous data in the life sciences through the concept of 'network of networks'.
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Creating Belonging by Diversifying Repertoire in Canadian Wind Band/Diversifer le répertoire pour favoriser le sentiment d'appartenance au sein des orchestres d'harmonie canadiens
Wind band in Canada has been under scrutiny due to a lack of diversity in programming practices. Shallow solutions such as diversity quotas are ineffective and risk tokenization. A pedagogical reckoning hinging on empathy, positionality, and contextualization is necessary for band directors who wish to create an environment of belonging and identity recognition in their ensembles. This pedagogical revolution requires personal reflection, risk taking, and vulnerability to foster a diverse, identity-rich future for wind band.
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Creating Belonging by Diversifying Repertoire in Canadian Wind Band/Diversifier le repertoire pour favoriser le sentiment d'appartenance au sein des orchestres d'harmonie canadiens
Wind band in Canada has been under scrutiny due to a lack of diversity in programming practices. Shallow solutions such as diversity quotas are ineffective and risk tokenization. A pedagogical reckoning hinging on empathy, positionality, and contextualization is necessary for band directors who wish to create an environment of belonging and identity recognition in their ensembles. This pedagogical revolution requires personal reflection, risk taking, and vulnerability to foster a diverse, identity-rich future for wind band.
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Frailty Models in Survival Analysis
Accessible to nonspecialists, this book explains the basic ideas in frailty modeling and statistical techniques, with a focus on real data application and interpretation of the results. It extensively explores how univariate frailty models can represent unobserved heterogeneity. It also emphasizes correlated frailty models as extensions of univariate and shared frailty models. The author analyzes similarities and differences between frailty and copula models, discusses problems related to frailty models, and describes parametric and semiparametric models using both frequentist and Bayesian approaches. He also shows how to apply the models to real data using R, SAS, and Stata.
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