For eukaryotic cells, the biological processes involving regulatory DNA elements play an important role in cell cycle. Understanding 3D spatial arrangements of chromosomes and revealing long-range chromatin interactions are critical to decipher these biological processes. In recent years, chromosome conformation capture (3C) related techniques have been developed to measure the interaction freq...

A key challenge for cognitive neuroscience is to decipher the representational schemes of the brain. A recent class of decoding algorithms for fMRI data, stimulus-feature-based encoding models, is becoming increasingly popular for inferring the dimensions of neural representational spaces from stimulusfeature spaces. We argue that such inferences are not always valid, because decoding can occur...

For a dual-rate control system where the output sampling interval is an integer multiple of the control interval, we propose a model-based inferential control scheme which uses a fast-rate model to estimate the intersample outputs and then supply them to a controller at the fast rate. Comparing such an inferential controller with the corresponding fast single-rate controller, we conclude that t...

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The role of prosody in conveying affective meaning is complex. The complexity is reflected to some extent in the many labels used to describe ‘ways of speaking’ that could generally be described as affectively coloured. The search for prosodic correlates of emotional speech, however, is more successful for some labels than for others. I argue that some labels refer not to the affective prosody ...

The eld of statistics can be divided into two branches, descriptive statistics and inferential statistics. Descriptive statistics, as its name suggests, is concerned with describing a population, or a sample from that population, in terms of numerical measures that are computed from data. Such a numerical measure is called a statistic. If the data used in the computation comes from the whole po...

People with social phobia report anticipatory and retrospective judgments about social situations that appear consistent with a negative interpretative bias. However, it is not at all clear that biased interpretative inferences are made "on-line;" that is, at the time that ambiguous information is first encountered. In a previous study, volunteers who were anxious about interviews were found to...

This paper provided an insight to the effective use of inferential statistics for social and behavioural research. As a theoretical paper, it explored the importance of tests of significance emphasizing the need to use the appropriate test for a particular research. It showed that a parametric test is one that involves the estimation of the value of at list one population parameter and the fact...

As participants repeatedly interact using graphical signals (as in a game of Pictionary), the signals gradually shift from being iconic (or motivated) to being symbolic (or arbitrary). The aim here is to test experimentally whether this change in the form of the signal implies a concomitant shift in the inferential mechanisms needed to understand it. The results show that, during early, iconic ...

With the increasing use of emerging communication technologies for collaborative work and group communication, organizations must recognize the bene®ts as well as the limitations of these technologies for communication effectiveness. An experiment was conducted to examine the interaction between task structure and technology to support synchronous and asynchronous group communication. Two commu...