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Showing 1 to 20 of 226 for “"nuisance"”.
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Nuisance Parameter Estimation in Survival Models
… require a conditional survival function as a nuisance parameter. This thesis focuses on the impact of the conditional survival function on the estimation of censored quantile regression and restricted means. In particular, we illustrate that a non-parametric estimator of the conditional …
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Light scattering by smoke and nuisance aerosols
… and forced pyrolysis) fires as well as nuisance aerosols. This was undertaken using a scattering cross section based on the mass concentration of aerosols as opposed to the traditional arbittary units.
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The effectiveness of the statutory nuisance procedure
… law and practice around the use of the Statutory Nuisance procedure under Part III of the Environmental Protection Act 1990 and its equivalent in Northern Ireland. This is a legal procedure that has been developed since the mid-nineteenth century. The aim is to consider its effective use by …
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The attractive nuisance doctrine in California education
… prerequisite to liability under attractive nuisance as it applies to public schools in the State of California.</p><p>In answering this problem an attempt will be made to clarify for the school administrator sundry areas in attractive nuisance, as follows: 1) What constitutes the action of …
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Survival, reproduction, and movements of translocated nuisance black bears in Virginia
Forty-three radio-collared black bears (Ursus americanus) captured in northwestern Virginia were released in the Mt. Rogers National Recreation Area (MRA) in southwestern Virginia, and monitored from June 1990-March 1992. Survival was 0.23 over the 22 month study; male (0.12) and female (0.37) …
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Sequential Confidence Sets With Beta-Protection in the Presence of Nuisance Parameters
… the mean of a distribution in the presence of nuisance parameters.
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A Foucauldian exploration of the statutory authority defence to an action in nuisance
… authority, as a defence to an action in nuisance. This historic defence has been reawakened, under section 158 of the Planning Act 2008, and its application has now been expanded to a wider variety of large-scale developments. This modern position, of a doctrine which was initially …
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Hypothesis testing when a nuisance parameter is identified only under the alternative hypothesis
When a nuisance parameter is unidentified under the null hypothesis, standard testing procedures cannot be applied due to the singularity of the information matrix. Probably best known examples are the problems of unknown change points and the mixtures of distributions in econometrics and …
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How does the public process impact the selection of a nuisance wildlife management plan?
… appealing to certain generalist species known as nuisance wildlife. Policy decisions for nuisance wildlife species are made at a national or state level; however, municipalities manage most nuisance wildlife-human conflicts. An individual town or city is responsible for controlling populations of …
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The efficacy of two novel insecticides to control nuisance diptera breeding in sewage biological filters
… of two novel insecticides for the control ofnuisance Diptera emanating from sewage biological filters. The efficacy of the insectgrowth regulator pyriproxyfen and a biological nematode Steinernema feltiae for thecontrol of sewage flies were assessed. Both insecticides targeted primarily …
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Tracking environmental trends in the Great Bay Estuarine System: An examination of water quality and nuisance macroalgal blooms
<p>Monitoring macroalgae populations is an effective means of detecting long term water quality changes in estuarine systems. To investigate the environmental status of New Hampshire's Great Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, this study assessed the abundance/distribution of macrophytes, …
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Quantification of an Ultrasound Test Apparatus and its Potential Use to Control Nuisance Species in Commercial Aquaculture Settings
As one step in the investigation of using acoustics to improve aquaculture production, work was pursued on the possible use of ultrasound to control the Bolbophorus trematode in commercial catfish ponds. The trematode population can be controlled by eliminating the host ram's horn snail via …
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Nuisance to nemesis: nuclear fallout and intelligence as secrets, problems, and limitations on the arms race, 1940-1964
Fallout sampling and other nuclear intelligence techniques were the most important sources of United States strategic intelligence in the early Cold War. Operated as the Atomic Energy Detection System by a covert Air Force unit known as AFOAT-1, the AEDS detected emissions and analyzed fallout from …
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A spatial analysis of management techniques used on nuisance black bears in Great Smoky Mountains National Park, USA (1990-2015)
… as the primary method of management for nuisance bears. In 1990, capture and on-site release was introduced and thus provided another way for biologists to manage their individual nuisance bears. Since then, relocation and on-site release have been the two primary techniques used on …
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The control of nuisance Diptera breeding in sewage biological filters by low frequency dosing and application of the insect growth regulator pyriproxyfen
The efficacy of low frequency dosing, and application of the insect growth regulator pyriproxyfen, for the control of sewage filter flies, was assessed. The low dosing frequency trials targeted primarily Sylvicola fenestralis, but also the chironomids Limnophyes minimus and Metriocnemus …
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Assessment of the efficacy of BTI Larvicide, VectoBac 12AS® (BTI AM65-52) against “nuisance” flies at water treatment plants in North West England
… Adult and larval fly counts of four species of “nuisance flies”, Limnophyes minimus, Metriocnemuseurynotus, Psychoda alternata and Sylvicola fenestralis were monitored at two wastewatertreatment works (WWTW) in North West of England. At selected points relative to peak flypresence, selected …
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Foraging habits, population changes, and gull-human interactions in an urban population of Herring Gulls (Larus argentatus) and Lesser Black-backed Gulls (Larus fuscus)
… In some urban areas, they are considered a nuisance, although overall gull numbers are declining, and all breeding gulls in Britain are protected by law. Objectives: To determine how the HG and LB population and gull nuisance events in Bath, Somerset change across the breeding season, and to …
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An item response theory-based statistical procedure for detecting concurrent internal bias in ability tests
… to be measured by the test (target ability) and nuisance determinant abilities. If the nuisance ability distributions conditional on a fixed target ability are different across group, and contamination of several items with these nuisance abilities is present in their item response functions, …
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