Interpreting Past Human Diets Using Stable Isotope Mixing Models—Best Practices for Data Acquisition
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DOI: 10.1007/s10816-021-09514-w
Abstract: Using stable isotope mixing models (SIMMs) to quantify past diets is becoming increasingly common in archaeology. This study highlights important field-specific difficulties encountered by archaeologists in reconstructing palaeodiets using SIMMs. Focusing on the data acquisition… read more here.
Keywords: isotope mixing; mixing models; data acquisition; stable isotope ... See more keywords
Turbulent Mixing Models and Other Mixing Coefficients in Subchannel Codes—A Review Part A: Single Phase
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DOI: 10.1080/00295450.2020.1792753
Abstract: Abstract Subchannel code analysis is one of the key thermal-hydraulic approaches for nuclear reactor design and safety analysis. At present, subchannel codes are employed to compute local thermal-hydraulic conditions on the rod bundle fuel assemblies… read more here.
Keywords: phase; subchannel codes; turbulent mixing; model ... See more keywords
Integrating DNA-based Prey Occurrence Probability Into Stable Isotope Mixing Models.
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DOI: 10.1093/icb/icac086
Abstract: The introduction of laboratory methods to animal dietary studies has allowed researchers to obtain results with accuracy and precision not possible with observational techniques. For example, DNA barcoding, or the identification of prey with taxon-specific… read more here.
Keywords: stable isotope; dna; mixing models; occurrence ... See more keywords
Mixing Models as Integer Factorization: A Key to Sample Preparation With Microfluidic Biochips
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DOI: 10.1109/tcad.2021.3063342
Abstract: Microfluidic biochips have recently emerged with significant promise and versatility in automating a variety of biochemical protocols on a tiny chip. Sample preparation, which involves the mixing of fluids with a specified target ratio in… read more here.
Keywords: models integer; sample preparation; factorization; microfluidic biochips ... See more keywords
Nonlinear Unmixing for Hyperspectral Images via Kernel-Transformed Bilinear Mixing Models
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DOI: 10.1109/tgrs.2021.3135571
Abstract: Due to the presence of multiple scatterings, linear unmixing methods may not perform well in practical applications, and thus nonlinear unmixing has become an urgent problem to be solved. Usually, the mixing process in the… read more here.
Keywords: kernel transformed; nonlinear unmixing; mixing models; bilinear mixing ... See more keywords
Improving counterfactual reasoning with kernelised dynamic mixing models
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DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0205839
Abstract: Simulation-based approaches to disease progression allow us to make counterfactual predictions about the effects of an untried series of treatment choices. However, building accurate simulators of disease progression is challenging, limiting the utility of these… read more here.
Keywords: counterfactual reasoning; reasoning kernelised; kernelised dynamic; dynamic mixing ... See more keywords
Coastal complexity: Ancient human diets inferred from Bayesian stable isotope mixing models and a primate analogue
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DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0209411
Abstract: An extensive ecological literature applies stable isotope mixing models to derive quantitative dietary reconstructions from isotope ratios of consumer tissues. While this approach works well for some organisms, it is challenging for consumers with complex,… read more here.
Keywords: collagen; isotope mixing; mixing models; bayesian stable ... See more keywords
Diagnosing underdetermination in stable isotope mixing models
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DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0257818
Abstract: Stable isotope mixing models (SIMMs) provide a powerful methodology for quantifying relative contributions of several sources to a mixture. They are widely used in the fields of ecology, geology, and archaeology. Although SIMMs have been… read more here.
Keywords: underdetermination; simms; isotope mixing; mixing models ... See more keywords
Inferences to estimate consumer’s diet using stable isotopes: Insights from a dynamic mixing model
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DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0263454
Abstract: Stable isotope ratios are used to reconstruct animal diet in trophic ecology via mixing models. Several assumptions of stable isotope mixing models are critical, i.e., constant trophic discrimination factor and isotopic equilibrium between the consumer… read more here.
Keywords: consumer diet; mixing model; dynamic mixing; mixing models ... See more keywords
Mixing models and stable isotopes as tools for research on feeding aquatic organisms
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DOI: 10.1590/0103-8478cr20160101
Abstract: EnglishImplementation of mixture models in isotopic analysis has been increasing due to the need to analyze sources and understand their variations in relation to consumers, which requires an accurate determination of their discriminant rate and… read more here.
Keywords: aquatic organisms; stable isotopes; research feeding; mixing models ... See more keywords
Weather Data Mixing Models for Day-Ahead PV Forecasting in Small-Scale PV Plants
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DOI: 10.3390/en14112998
Abstract: As a large number of small-scale PV plants have been deployed in distribution systems, generation forecasting of such plants has recently been gaining interest. Because the PV power mainly depends on weather conditions, it is… read more here.
Keywords: mixing models; weather data; scale plants; small scale ... See more keywords