Epistasis, the interaction among genes, is ubiquitous among common, complex, and multifactorial diseases. Therefore it has become necessary to develop methods to detect epistasis, the motivation for one such method, multifactor dimensionality reduction (MDR). We introduce the algorithm of MDR, its strengths and weaknesses, and finally illustrate the results of applying MDR to alcoholism. We com...

The ring size effect of macrocyclic TMC ligands in nonheme iron(IV)-oxo complexes has been examined in hydrogen atom transfer (HAT) and oxygen atom transfer (OAT) reactions; an iron(IV)-oxo complex bearing a smaller TMC ligand is more reactive in both HAT and OAT reactions, resulting from its high Fe(IV/III) redox potential.

submitted for future conference: • Locally Linear Embedding of Chromatic Clusterings in Temporal and Spatial Domains Talk, MathFest, July 26 29, 2017, Chicago, Illinois

This article is specifically on the harm reduction programme that has been in practise in Thailand in the past as well as the present on-going project. The Thai government’s initiative in declaring war against drugs has greatly helped in this programme. The working group on HIV and Drug Risk Reduction have outlined six projects, from public awareness right up to the prevention of HIV in prisons...

Correlation structure contains important information about longitudinal data. Existing sufficient dimension reduction approaches assuming independence may lead to substantial loss of efficiency. We apply the quadratic inference function to incorporate the correlation information and apply the transformation method to recover the central subspace. The proposed estimators are shown to be consiste...

In this paper we explore the utility of nonlinear dimensionality reduction techniques in the realm of facial expression analysis. First, we test the ability of nonlinear techniques to describe the higher nonlinear nature of human facial expressions. We exploit the data-driven model of an embedding to create novel facial expressions. Finally, we composite the facial expressions back on the face.

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An experimental method for measurement of local redox potential within multilayer electrodes was developed and applied to all-vanadium redox flow batteries (VRFBs). Through-plane measurement at the positive side reveals several important phenomena including potential distribution, concentration distribution of active species and the predominant reaction location within the porous carbon electro...