Robert J. Johnston, Kevin Boyle, Wiktor Adamowicz, Jeff Bennett et al.
This article proposes contemporary best-practice recommendations for stated preference (SP) studies used to inform decision making, grounded in the accumulate body of peer-reviewed literature. These recommendations consider the use of SP methods to estimate both use and non-use (passive-use) values,...
Shadd Maruna, Kevin Roy
Several scholars have suggested that life changes—such as desistance from crime—may be shaped by social structures through a process of “knifing off.” Individuals are thought to change their lives by severing themselves from harmful environments, undesirable companions, or even the past itself. Desp...
Muhammad Ahasanuzzaman, Muhammad Asaduzzaman, Chanchal K. Roy, Kevin A. Schneider
Stack Overflow is a popular question answering site that is focused on programming problems. Despite efforts to prevent asking questions that have already been answered, the site contains duplicate questions. This may cause developers to unnecessarily wait for a question to be answered when it has a...
Therese M. Murphy, Maria Ryan, Tom Foster, Chris Kelly et al.
BACKGROUND: Suicidal behaviour is known to aggregate in families. Patients with psychiatric disorders are at higher risk for suicide attempts (SA), however protective and risk genetic variants for suicide appear to be independent of underlying psychiatric disorders. Here we investigate genetic varia...
Tommi Vatanen, Qi Yan Ang, Léa Siegwald, Shafiqul Alam Sarker et al.
The gut microbiome has an important role in infant health and development. We characterized the fecal microbiome and metabolome of 222 young children in Dhaka, Bangladesh during the first two years of life. A distinct Bifidobacterium longum clade expanded with introduction of solid foods and harbore...
T. K. Dey, Amanda C. Saville, Kevin Myers, Susanta Tewari et al.
The population structure of the Phytophthora infestans populations that caused the recent 2013-14 late blight epidemic in eastern India (EI) and northeastern India (NEI) was examined. The data provide new baseline information for populations of P. infestans in India. A migrant European 13_A2 genotyp...
Ivan Koludarov, Timothy Jackson, Bianca op den Brouw, James Dobson et al.
While snake venoms have been the subject of intense study, comparatively little work has been done on lizard venoms. In this study, we have examined the structural and functional diversification of anguimorph lizard venoms and associated toxins, and related these results to dentition and predatory e...
Avijoy Roy Choudhury, Ifeanyi Munonye, Kevin Paul Sanu, Nipa Islam et al.
) gene. Alström syndrome has an autosomal recessive nature of inheritance. Approximately 1,200 cases of Alström syndrome have been identified worldwide. Complications of the disease are likely caused by dysfunctional cilia with complications arising early in life. The known complications of Alström ...
Muhammad Asaduzzaman, Muhammad Ahasanuzzaman, Chanchal K. Roy, Kevin A. Schneider
Exception handling is a technique that addresses exceptional conditions in applications, allowing the normal flow of execution to continue in the event of an exception and/or to report on such events. Although exception handling techniques, features and bad coding practices have been discussed both ...
Dayana A. Delgado, Chenan Zhang, Kevin J. Gleason, Kathryn Demanelis et al.
Leukocyte telomere length (LTL) is a heritable trait with two potential sources of heritability (h2): inherited variation in non-telomeric regions (e.g., SNPs that influence telomere maintenance) and variability in the lengths of telomeres in gametes that produce offspring zygotes (i.e., “direct” in...
Marguerite Roy, Timothy J. Wood, Danielle Blouin, Kevin W. Eva
PURPOSE: Accreditation aims to ensure all training programs meet agreed-upon standards of quality. The process is complex, resource intensive, and costly. Its benefits are difficult to assess because contextual confounds obscure comparisons between systems that do and do not include accreditation. T...
Md. Anaytul Islam, Md. Moksedul Islam, Manishankar Mondal, Banani Roy et al.
If two or more program entities (such as files, classes, methods) co-change (i.e., change together) frequently during software evolution, then it is likely that these two entities are coupled (i.e., the entities are related). Such a coupling is termed as evolutionary coupling in the literature. The ...
Rahul Vasudev, Priyank Shah, Jaimy Patel, Maria Naranjo et al.
INTRODUCTION: Coronary Artery Disease (CAD) continues to be on the rise not only in the Western developed world but also affecting the South Asian race, particularly Bangladeshis. The objectives of this study were as follows: To determine whether or not risk factors of Bangladeshis differ from non-B...
Manishankar Mondal, Chanchal K. Roy, Banani Roy, Kevin A. Schneider
When a programmer changes a particular code fragment, the other similar code fragments in the code-base may also need to be changed together (i.e., co-changed) consistently to ensure that the software system remains consistent. Existing studies and tools apply clone detectors to identify these simil...
Kevin McGarry, Duncan Redmill, Mark Edwards, Aoife Byrne et al.
Northern Ireland (NI) has been in a post-conflict state for over twenty years. However, injuries sustained during paramilitary Punishment Attacks (PA) remain a common hospital presentation. The aim of this study was to compare the current province-wide frequency and cost with data collected from the...