HTTPS-Only: Upgrading all connections to https in Web Browsers

Kerschbaumer, Christoph; Gaibler, Julian; Edelstein, Arthur; Merwey, Thyla van der

doi:10.14722/madweb.2021.23010

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“…We used Bayesian models to estimate unknown parameters in all analyses. We used a Markov chain Monte Carlo method implemented in the jagsUI package (Kellner, 2018) in Program R to estimate the posterior distributions of parameters. Unless otherwise noted, we used uninformative priors in our Bayesian models, and employed three chains of 60,000 iterations each, with the first 50,000 discarded as burn-in.…”

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Age‐specific survival rates, causes of death, and allowable take of golden eagles in the western United States

Millsap

Zimmerman

Kendall

et al. 2022

Ecological Applications

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In the United States, the Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act prohibits take of golden eagles (Aquila chrysaetos) unless authorized by permit, and stipulates that all permitted take must be sustainable. Golden eagles are unintentionally killed in conjunction with many lawful activities (e.g., electrocution on power poles, collision with wind turbines). Managers who issue permits for incidental take of golden eagles must determine allowable take levels and manage permitted take accordingly. To aid managers in making these decisions in the western United States, we used an integrated population model to obtain estimates of golden eagle vital rates and population size, and then used those estimates in a prescribed take level (PTL) model to estimate the allowable take level. Estimated mean annual survival rates for golden eagles ranged from 0.70 (95% credible interval = 0.66–0.74) for first‐year birds to 0.90 (0.88–0.91) for adults. Models suggested a high proportion of adult female golden eagles attempted to breed and breeding pairs fledged a mean of 0.53 (0.39–0.72) young annually. Population size in the coterminous western United States has averaged ~31,800 individuals for several decades, with λ = 1.0 (0.96–1.05). The PTL model estimated a median allowable take limit of ~2227 (708–4182) individuals annually given a management objective of maintaining a stable population. We estimate that take averaged 2572 out of 4373 (59%) deaths annually, based on a representative sample of transmitter‐tagged golden eagles. For the subset of golden eagles that were recovered and a cause of death determined, anthropogenic mortality accounted for an average of 74% of deaths after their first year; leading forms of take over all age classes were shooting (~670 per year), collisions (~611), electrocutions (~506), and poisoning (~427). Although observed take overlapped the credible interval of our allowable take estimate and the population overall has been stable, our findings indicate that additional take, unless mitigated for, may not be sustainable. Our analysis demonstrates the utility of the joint application of integrated population and prescribed take level models to management of incidental take of a protected species.

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Section: Band and Recovery Data Frommentioning

confidence: 99%

Age‐specific survival rates, causes of death, and allowable take of golden eagles in the western United States

Millsap

Zimmerman

Kendall

et al. 2022

Ecological Applications

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“…We augmented this analysis with a series of Bayesian logistic regression models, 48 , 49 predicting survival at 12, 24 and 36 months, motivated by the widespread use of annual survival-based metrics. 50 , 51 These classification models replicated the inputs of the survival models, and were estimated with MCMC, employing 100 000 samples, a burn-in of 100 000 and thinning of five.…”

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Brain tumour genetic network signatures of survival

Ruffle,

Mohinta,

Pombo

et al. 2023

Brain

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Tumour heterogeneity is increasingly recognized as a major obstacle to therapeutic success across neuro-oncology. Gliomas are characterized by distinct combinations of genetic and epigenetic alterations, resulting in complex interactions across multiple molecular pathways. Predicting disease evolution and prescribing individually optimal treatment requires statistical models complex enough to capture the intricate (epi)genetic structure underpinning oncogenesis. Here, we formalize this task as the inference of distinct patterns of connectivity within hierarchical latent representations of genetic networks. Evaluating multi-institutional clinical, genetic and outcome data from 4023 glioma patients over 14 years, across 12 countries, we employ Bayesian generative stochastic block modelling to reveal a hierarchical network structure of tumour genetics spanning molecularly confirmed glioblastoma, IDH-wildtype; oligodendroglioma, IDH-mutant and 1p/19q codeleted; and astrocytoma, IDH-mutant. Our findings illuminate the complex dependence between features across the genetic landscape of brain tumours and show that generative network models reveal distinct signatures of survival with better prognostic fidelity than current gold standard diagnostic categories.

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“…This crowdsourced information could be made available directly to city staff. Volunteers worked at and between the hackights to produce this application, and with the help of a project manager contracted by the City of Toronto, produced a working application [8] that was even cloned by the City of Edmonton. Unfortunately, years after its release, questions about who would host the application failed to be resolved, and it has fallen into disuse.…”

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Beyond Transactional Democracy: A Study of Civic Tech in Canada

McCord,

Becker

2023

Preprint

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Technologies are increasingly enrolled in projects to involve civilians in the work of policy-making, often under the label of 'civic technology'. But conventional forms of participation through transactions such as voting provide limited opportunities for engagement. In response, some civic tech groups organize around issues of shared concern to explore new forms of democratic technologies. How does their work affect the relationship between publics and public servants?This paper explores how a Civic Tech Toronto creates a platform for civic engagement through the maintenance of an autonomous community for civic engagement and participation that is casual, social, nonpartisan, experimental, and flexible. Based on two years of action research, including community organizing, interviews, and observations, this paper shows how this grassroots civic tech group creates a civic platform that places a diverse range of participants in contact with the work of public servants, helping to build capacities and relationships that prepare both publics and public servants for the work of participatory democracy.The case shows that understanding civic tech requires a lens beyond the mere analysis or production of technical artifacts. As a practice for making technologies that is social and participatory, civic tech creates alternative modes of technology development and opportunities for experimentation and learning, and it can reconfigure the roles of democratic participants.CCS Concepts: • Human-centered computing → Empirical studies in collaborative and social computing.

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HTTPS-Only: Upgrading all connections to https in Web Browsers

Cited by 11 publications

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Age‐specific survival rates, causes of death, and allowable take of golden eagles in the western United States

Age‐specific survival rates, causes of death, and allowable take of golden eagles in the western United States

Brain tumour genetic network signatures of survival

Beyond Transactional Democracy: A Study of Civic Tech in Canada

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