The product moment correlation coefficient is often used even for ordinal data with only a few scale steps. This procedure may lead to biased results, where the bias depends on the number of scale ...

Whereas most prokaryotes rely on binary fission for propagation, many species use alternative mechanisms, which include multiple offspring formation and budding, to reproduce. In some bacterial ...

Abstract: Contingency screening to generate the expected fault set is important for the power grid reliability evaluation. However, most existing screening methods are not efficient enough, and they ...