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Physical and political boundaries as barriers to the continuity of social vulnerability by King, Robert A.R., Blackmore, Karen L.

“…The dynamics of social vulnerability are of key interest to many government agencies and departments. Identifying the geographic distribution of vulnerability…”
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Asymmetric generalizations of symmetric univariate probability distributions obtained through quantile splicing by Mac'Oduol, Brenda V., van Staden, Paul J., King, Robert A. R.

“…Balakrishnan et al. proposed a two-piece skew logistic distribution by making use of the cumulative distribution function (CDF) of half distributions as the…”
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The quantile-based skew logistic distribution by van Staden, Paul J., King, Robert A.R.

“…We show that the quantile-based skew logistic distribution possesses kurtosis measures based on L-moments and on quantiles which are skewness invariant. We…”
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Five Unit Bolus Oxytocin at Cesarean Delivery in Women at Risk of Atony: A Randomized, Double-Blind, Controlled Trial by King, Kylie J., Douglas, M. Joanne, Unger, Waldemar, Wong, Areta, King, Robert A. R.

“…I.v. bolus oxytocin is used routinely during cesarean delivery to prevent postpartum hemorrhage. Its adverse hemodynamic effects are well known, resulting in a…”
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Kurtosis of the logistic-exponential survival distribution by van Staden, Paul J., King, Robert A. R.

“…In this article, the kurtosis of the logistic-exponential distribution is analyzed. All the moments of this survival distribution are finite, but do not…”
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Is there thermal benefit from preoperative warming in children? by CASSEY, JOHN G., KING, ROBERT A.R., ARMSTRONG, PETER

“…Summary Aim:  We aimed to quantify the impact of a raised preoperative ambient temperature (Tambient) on core temperature (Tcore) after induction of anesthesia…”
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Affective Visual Perception Using Machine Pareidolia of Facial Expressions by Hong, Kenny, Chalup, Stephan K., King, Robert A. R.

“…This article presents a computer vision approach that can detect and classify abstract face-like patterns, including subliminal faces within a scene. This can…”
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Structural equation modeling of multivariate gamma density by Diawara, Norou, Oluyede, Broderick, King, Robert A. R.

“…There is an increased interest in the multivariate gamma distribution, not only in its properties and functionality but also in its parameter estimations. In…”
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Reading by the Numbers: Reconsidering Numerical Estimates of Reading Difficulty by O’Toole, J. Mitchell, King, Robert A.R.

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Fitting the Generalized Lambda Distribution with Location and Scale-Free Shape Functionals by King, Robert A.R., MacGillivray, H. L.

“…The generahzed lambda distribution (gld) is a family of distributions that can take on a very wide range of shapes within one distributional form. We present a…”
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A Matter of Significance: Can Sampling Error Invalidate Cloze Estimates of Text Readability? by O'Toole, John Mitchell, King, Robert A. R.

“…This quantitative study intends to better understand the impact of the location of the first deleted word upon the estimation of text difficulty yielded by…”
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Assessment of the Randomization Test for Binomial Sex-Ratio Distributions in Birds by Ewen, John G., Cassey, Phillip

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A starship estimation method for the generalized lambda distributions by King, Robert A.R., MacGillivray, H L

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Scene perception using pareidolia of faces and expressions of emotion by Hong, Kenny, Chalup, Stephan K., King, Robert A. R., Ostwald, Michael J.

“…The aim of this study is to simulate the pareidolia capability of humans to produce an emotional response to a scene using analysis of facial expressions…”
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The problem of testing the goodness-of-fit of stochastic resource apportionment models by Cassey, Phillip, King, Robert A. R.

“…We present a Monte Carlo test to distinguish among a general class of stochastic resource apportionment models using replicated species abundance data. In this…”
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A component based approach for classifying the seven universal facial expressions of emotion by Hong, Kenny, Chalup, Stephan K., King, Robert A. R.

“…In a previous publication we showed a component approach performing better than a holistic approach for classifying 6 discrete facial expressions of emotion…”
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An experimental evaluation of pairwise adaptive support vector machines by Hong, K., Chalup, S. K., King, R. A. R.

“…This paper describes and experimentally evaluates a new variation of multiclass classification using support vector machines. The technique, called pairwise…”
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A component based approach improves classification of discrete facial expressions over a holistic approach by Hong, Kenny, Chalup, Stephan K, King, Robert A R

“…Current approaches to facial expression classification employ a variety of expression classes and different preprocessing steps, making comparison of results…”
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