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Tropical forests are both evolutionary cradles and museums of leaf beetle diversity
(Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2006-07-03)The high extant species diversity of tropical lineages of organisms is usually portrayed as a relatively recent and rapid development or as a consequence of the gradual accumulation or preservation of species over time. ... -
Children and adults successfully comprehend subject-only sentences online
(Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2019-01-17)In many offline studies, children show selectively better comprehension of sentences with the focus particle only when it modifies the object argument (Jane only ate an apple) than they do when it modifies the subject ... -
Bayesian approach to analyzing holograms of colloidal particles
(The Optical Society, 2016-10-07)We demonstrate a Bayesian approach to tracking and characterizing colloidal particles from in-line digital holograms. We model the formation of the hologram using Lorenz-Mie theory. We then use a tempered Markov-chain Monte ...