Abstract We present the open-source Bayesian Atmospheric Radiative Transfer (BART) retrieval package, which produces estimates and uncertainties for an atmosphere’s thermal profile chemical abundances from observations. Several BART components are also stand-alone packages, including parallel Multi-Core Markov-chain Monte Carlo (MC3), implements several samplers; a line-by-line radiative-transf...

The preponderance of large-scale healthcare databases provide abundant opportunities for comparative effectiveness research. Evidence necessary to making informed treatment decisions often relies on comparing multiple options outcomes interest observed in a small number individuals. Causal inference with treatments and rare is subject that has been treated sparingly the literature. This paper d...

In recent years the problem of how inter-individual differences play a role in risk-taking behavior has become a much debated issue. We investigated this problem based on the well-known balloon analog risk task (BART) in 48 healthy subjects in which participants inflate a virtual balloon opting for a higher score in the face of a riskier chance of the balloon explosion. In this study, based on ...

MicroRNAs are small non-coding RNAs that regulate gene expression at multiple levels. The discovery of virally encoded miRNAs attracted immense attention towards their role in viral replication and pathogenesis. Kaposi's-sarcoma-associated herpes virus encodes miRNA that functions as an orthologue of human cellular miRNA, i.e., hsa-miR-155. Keeping the same view we extended the miRNA-homology s...

Increasing age is associated with subtle but meaningful changes in decision-making. It is unknown, however, to what degree these psychological changes are reflective of age-related changes in decision quality. Here, we investigated the effect of age on latent cognitive processes associated with risky decision-making on the Balloon Analog Risk Task (BART). In the BART, participants repetitively ...

Vol. XLVIII (February 2011), 13 –27 *Jun B. Kim is Assistant Professor of Marketing, College of Management, Georgia Institute of Technology (e-mail: [email protected]). Paulo Albuquerque is Assistant Professor of Marketing, Simon Graduate School of Business, University of Rochester (e-mail: paulo.albuquerque@ simon.rochester.edu). Bart J. Bronnenberg is Professor of Marketing and CentER Fe...

Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) infection is a major etiological factor for nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC). Several EBV-encoded BART miRNAs have been associated with viral latency, immune escape, cell survival, cell proliferation and apoptosis. Here, we report that EBV-miR-BART7-3p, an EBV-encoded BART miRNA highly expressed in NPC, was correlated with cell-cycle progression in vitro and increased tum...

Impairments in executive functioning are commonly found in Parkinson's disease (PD); however, the research into risky decision making has been mixed. The present study sought to investigate three potential hypotheses: difficulty learning the task probabilities, levodopa equivalent dose (LED), and the presence of apathy. Twenty-four individuals with idiopathic PD and 13 healthy controls complete...

Vol. XLIV (February 2007), 4–13 4 © 2007, American Marketing Association ISSN: 0022-2437 (print), 1547-7193 (electronic) *Bart J. Bronnenberg is Professor of Marketing, Anderson School of Management, University of California, Los Angeles (e-mail: [email protected]). Sanjay K. Dhar is James H. Lorie Professor of Marketing (e-mail: [email protected]), and Jean-Pierre Dub...