Br J Math Stat Psychol
February 2025
Nowadays, multidimensional data are often available from educational testing. One natural issue is to identify whether more dimensional data are useful in fitting the item response data. To address this important issue, we develop a new decomposition of Widely Applicable Information Criterion (WAIC) via the posterior predictive ordinate (PPO) under the joint model for the response, response time and two additional educational testing scores.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPersistent bacterial infections evade host immunity and resist antibiotic treatments through various mechanisms that are difficult to evaluate in a living host. Pseudomonas aeruginosa is a main cause of chronic infections in patients with cystic fibrosis (CF) and wounds. Here, by immersing wounded zebrafish embryos in a suspension of P.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA white encrustation of the Cotswold Weir wall in the lower reaches of the Condamine River, a tributary of the Murray-Darling River system in semi-arid Australia, was investigated following community concern that it indicated health risks from an unknown substance in the water resulting from mining and agricultural enterprises in the catchment. The vitreous white surface consisted of closely packed frustules of diatoms, observed by scanning electron microscopy, with an underlying layer of clay particles and dried filamentous green algae. Pennate diatoms identified in the white encrustation were the benthic species (predominant), , aff.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFChronic infections represent a significant global health and economic challenge. Biofilms, which are bacterial communities encased in an extracellular polysaccharide matrix, contribute to approximately 80% of these infections. In particular, pathogens such as Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Staphylococcus aureus are frequently co-isolated from the sputum of patients with cystic fibrosis and are commonly found in chronic wound infections.
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