Here we provide the ‘Global Spectrum of Plant Form and Function Dataset’, containing species mean values for six vascular plant traits. Together, these traits –plant height, stem specific density, leaf area, leaf mass per area, leaf nitrogen content per dry mass, and diaspore (seed or spore) mass – define the primary axes of variation in pl...
Dual-energy computed tomography (DECT) is an advanced CT computed tomography scanning technique enabling material characterization not possible with conventional CT scans. It allows the reconstruction of energy decay curves at each 3D image voxel, representing varied image attenuation at different effective scanning energy levels. In this paper, we...
We consider the twin problems of estimating the effective rank and the Schatten norms $\|{\bf A}\|_{s}$ of a rectangular $p\times q$ matrix ${\bf A}$ from noisy observations. When $s$ is an even integer, we introduce a polynomial-time estimator of $\|{\bf A}\|_s$ that achieves the minimax rate $(pq)^{1/4}$. Interestingly, this optimal rate does not...
This paper introduces a novel algorithm, the Perturbed Proximal Preconditioned SPIDER algorithm (3P-SPIDER), designed to solve finite sum non-convex composite optimization. It is a stochastic Variable Metric Forward-Backward algorithm, which allows approximate preconditioned forward operator and uses a variable metric proximity operator as the back...
The state of the atmosphere, or of the ocean, cannot be exhaustively observed. Crucial parts might remain out of reach of proper monitoring. Also, defining the exact set of equations driving the atmosphere and ocean is virtually impossible because of their complexity. Hence, the goal of this paper is to obtain predictions of a partially observed dy...
Prospective home injuries (HIs) and detailed exposure information are generally scarce to study risk factors. We assessed the associations between physical household environment, behaviours and Do-It-Yourself (DIY), gardening and domestic activities and HI's risk in a prospective cohort study. The MAVIE observatory is an e-cohort conducted among vo...
Abstract Adaptation in protein-coding sequences can be detected from multiple sequence alignments across species, or alternatively by leveraging polymorphism data inside a population. Across species, quantification of the adaptive rate relies on phylogenetic codon models, classically formulated in terms of the ratio of non-synonymous over synonymou...
After recalling the conceptual framework of the estimation of agricultural production costs, we present the empirical data model, the quantile regression approach and the interval principal component analysis and clustering tools used to obtain typologies of European countries on the basis of the conditional quantile distributions of fertilizer cos...
Animal social network analyses (ASNA) have led to a foundational shift in our understanding of animal sociality that transcends the disciplinary boundaries of genetics, spatial movements, epidemiology, information transmission, evolution, species assemblages and conservation. However, some analytical protocols (i.e., permutation tests) used in ASNA...
