ANCESTRAL - Astrophysics Data System

Discovering Ancestral Instrumental Variables for Causal Inference from Observational Data

Even when there are latent confounders between the treatment and the result, an instrumental variable is a useful tool to inferring the causal effects of a treatment on an outcome of concern from observational results. " For a group of candidate Ancestral IVs and each potential AIV, we create the theory based on partial ancestral charts in order to aid the hunt for a set of potential Ancestral IVs and the identification of its conditioning set. The experiments on synthetic and real-world datasets show that the evolved IV discovery algorithm produces reliable estimates of causal effects in comparison to the state-of-the-art IV based causal effect estimators. ".

Source link: https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2022arXiv220601931C/abstract

Reconstructed ancestral enzymes suggest long-term cooling of Earth's photic zone since the Archean

"Geological evidence indicating that Earth's oceans cooled from u223c55-85 °u00b0C to 0°C in the Archean to the present have skepticism due to potential geochemical change of the rocks and questions regarding their depositional environment. " We have restricted our tests to ancestral enzymes extracted from photic-zone cyanobacteria and land plants because some of the taxa's previously investigated taxa may have lived in typical high-temperature environments.

Source link: https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2017PNAS..114.4619G/abstract

Ancestral reproductive bias in branching processes

"This inspection paradox" is due to sampling error, that cells with a greater number of offspring are more likely to have one of their descendants tested by virtue of their prolificity, and the bias's strength increases with increasing sample size and/or sampling time.

Source link: https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2022arXiv220513875C/abstract

Ancestral Colorings of Perfect Binary Trees With Applications in Private Retrieval of Merkle Proofs

"Our findings, in addition, reveal an infinite family of graphs for which the equitable chromatic number can be determined in a specific manner. " As a practical application of a state-of-the-art private information retrieval scheme, we show that a balanced ancestral coloring scheme can be used to expedite a Merkle proof retrieval in a Merkle tree by a factor of.

Source link: https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2022arXiv220505211C/abstract

The Benefits of Indonesian Spices For Livestock Health As A Legacy of Our Ancestors Local Wisdom

"The world of animal husbandry began in ancient times," the human race's first attempts to perform animal domestication activities used spices to maintain animal health. " This study was designed to see the introduction of spice use for livestock health. The method used is a literature review of various research findings relating to the use of spices for livestock health. The result revealed that the care of livestock has existed since Borobudur Temple has been constructed with representations of reliefs from herbal medicine. Spices are medicinal raw materials that are environmentally friendly and whose availability is sustainable. ".

Source link: https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2022E&ES.1020a2032W/abstract

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