MS Research Roundup: July 28, 2014

World Hepatitis Day — July 28, 2014

Infections with hepatitis B virus (HBV) and hepatitis C virus (HCV) are major causes of morbidity and mortality globally, primarily because of sequelae of chronic liver disease including cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma (1). The risks for HBV and HCV transmission via blood transfusions have been described previously (2) and are believed to be higher in countries in sub-Saharan Africa (3)....

Math G9906 Research Seminar in Number Theory (spring 2014) Lecture 3 (february 28, 2014)

for all k ∈ I. We are interested in the following question: if f is a classical modular form of weight k, when does there exist Φ ∈ W [[Zp ]][[q]] such that f = ∑ k̂(an)q ? This is partially answered by Hida in his “Vertical Control Theorems”. Let’s talk a bit about modular forms. Let A be a Z[ 6 ]-algebra. We denote by (E,ω)/A an elliptic curve E/A together with a nowhere vanishing differential...

World Hepatitis Day — July 28, 2013

World Hepatitis Day — July 28, 2015

July 28, 2015, marks the fifth annual World Hepatitis Day, established in 2010 by the World Health Organization to increase awareness and understanding of viral hepatitis. Millions of acute hepatitis infections occur each year, and approximately 400 million persons are living with chronic hepatitis B or hepatitis C (1). An estimated 1.4 million persons die each year from the various forms of vi...

Package ‘ label . switching ’ July 2 , 2014

July 2, 2014 Type Package Title Relabelling MCMC outputs of mixture models Version 1.2 Date 2013-12-04 Author Panagiotis Papastamoulis Maintainer Panagiotis Papastamoulis Description The Bayesian estimation of mixture models (and more general hidden Markov models) suffers from the label switching phenomenon, making the MCMC output non-identifiable. This package can be used i...