The advantage of the proposed formulation is that the objective function gradient does not depend upon the variation of field geometrical quantities, such as metrics variations in the case of structured grids.
Given that our model is based partially on street-level metrics, such variation will clearly influence results.
Patterns of physical stress exposure are often difficult to measure, and the metrics of variation and techniques for identifying them is underdeveloped in the practice of occupational ergonomics.
Most quality metrics measure variation in physical image properties only (e.g., pixel deviation, image intensity, contrast), without consideration for the impact of those properties on perception and/or decision.
Although the maximum R2 were found at relatively low pulse densities (0.3 pulses m−2) for two of the three metrics, little variation in precision of the culled metrics was noted from 10 pulses m−2 to a threshold of 0.04 pulses m−2 for D and 0.2 pulses m−2 for Hm and V (Figure 3; Table 4).
For the five other metrics, the variation observed between two populations of a species is of the same order of magnitude as that observed between two species, as shown by the position of Sc in the theoretical distribution (Table 2; Figure 3).
These results show the possibility to process WGA gDNA samples at nearly similar performance to that of standard non-amplified gDNA samples without showing significant allelic bias/difference in enrichment metrics and variation detection among non-pooled and pooled samples.
We specifically compare samples from before (1995 2000, n = 449) to after (2001 2007, n = 682) the disturbance with respect to several metrics of variation: (i) observed heterozygosity (Ho), (ii) expected heterozygosity (He), and (iii) the mean number of alleles per locus (A).
In this work, we simulated the response of key wildfire exposure metrics to variations in the percentage of treated area, treatment unit size, and spatial arrangement of fuel treatments under different wind intensities.
