Maximum Likelihood Method for Predicting Environmental Conditions from Assemblage Composition: The R Package bio.infer

This paper provides a brief introduction to the R package bio.infer, a Phone Adaptor set of scripts that facilitates the use of maximum likelihood (ML) methods for predicting environmental conditions from assemblage composition.Environmental conditions can often be inferred from only biological data, and these inferences are useful when other sourc

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Self-Organization and Human Robots

Humans are rather funny things, we often tend to imagine that we Lamp are so ?special?, so divorced by our supposed ?intelligence? from the influences of the ?natural world? and so unique in our ?abstracting? abilities.We have this persistent delusion, evident since ancient Greek times, that we are ?rational?, that we can behave as ?disinterested o

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Does the loot box open the door to addiction? A case report of gaming disorder with high charges for loot box purchases

Abstract Background A loot box is a gaming term for an electronic lottery that randomly provides items that enhance the gaming experience.In recent years, loot boxes have been increasingly Photography discussed as a risk factor of gaming disorder (GD).While they may be purchased for a few dollars at a time, the cumulative expenses resulting from th

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