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most citedCharge Fluctuation Forces Between Stiff Polyelectrolytes in Salt Solution: Pairwise Summability Re-examined

140 citations

42 papers

stat.ME2025

Covariance test for discretely observed functional data: when and how it works?

Yang Zhou, Jin Yang, Fang Yao

For covariance test in functional data analysis, existing methods are developed only for fully observed curves, whereas in practice, trajectories are typically observed discretely…

cs.CV2025★ 1 cited

A Shape-Aware Total Body Photography System for In-focus Surface Coverage Optimization

Wei-Lun Huang, Joshua Liu, Davood Tashayyod +4

Total Body Photography (TBP) is becoming a useful screening tool for patients at high risk for skin cancer. While much progress has been made, existing TBP systems can be further i…

stat.AP2021★ 2 cited

Analyzing Highly Correlated Chemical Toxicants Associated with Time to Pregnancy Using Discrete Survival Frailty Modeling Via Elastic Net

Abhisek Saha, Rajeshwari Sundaram

Understanding the association between mixtures of environmental toxicants and time-to-pregnancy (TTP) is an important scientific question as sufficient evidence has emerged about t…

cond-mat.soft2021

Surface-Facilitated Trapping by Active Sites: From Catalysts to Viruses

Mikita M. Misiura, Alexander M. Berezhkovskii, Sergey M. Bezrukov +1

Trapping by active sites on surfaces plays important roles in various chemical and biological processes, including catalysis, enzymatic reactions, and viral entry into host cells.…

q-bio.QM2020★ 13 cited

A single-shot measurement of time-dependent diffusion over sub-millisecond timescales using static field gradient NMR

Teddy X. Cai, Nathan H. Williamson, Velencia J. Witherspoon +2

Time-dependent diffusion behavior is probed over sub-millisecond timescales in a single shot using an NMR static gradient, time-incremented echo train acquisition (SG-TIETA) framew…

physics.bio-ph2020★ 11 cited

A novel in vitro device to deliver induced electromagnetic fields to cell and tissue cultures

Rea Ravin, Teddy X. Cai, Randall H. Pursley +9

We have developed a novel in vitro instrument that can deliver intermediate frequency (100 - 400 kHz), moderate intensity (up to and exceeding 6.5 V/cm pk-pk) electric fields (EFs)…

q-bio.NC2017

Global Brain Dynamics During Social Exclusion Predict Subsequent Behavioral Conformity

Nick Wasylyshyn, Brett Hemenway, Javier O. Garcia +6

Individuals react differently to social experiences; for example, people who are more sensitive to negative social experiences, such as being excluded, may be more likely to adapt…

q-bio.GN2016★ 7 cited

A Quadratically Regularized Functional Canonical Correlation Analysis for Identifying the Global Structure of Pleiotropy with NGS Data

Nan Lin, Yun Zhu, Ruzong Fan +1

Investigating the pleiotropic effects of genetic variants can increase statistical power, provide important information to achieve deep understanding of the complex genetic structu…

physics.med-ph2015★ 4 cited

Tract Orientation and Angular Dispersion Deviation Indicator (TOADDI): A framework for single-subject analysis in diffusion tensor imaging

Cheng Guan Koay, Ping-Hong Yeh, John M. Ollinger +5

The purpose of this work is to develop a framework for single-subject analysis of diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) data. This framework (termed TOADDI) is capable of testing whether…

stat.AP2015★ 16 cited

A two-state mixed hidden Markov model for risky teenage driving behavior

John C. Jackson, Paul S. Albert, Zhiwei Zhang

This paper proposes a joint model for longitudinal binary and count outcomes. We apply the model to a unique longitudinal study of teen driving where risky driving behavior and the…

stat.AP2015★ 6 cited

Mixed model and estimating equation approaches for zero inflation in clustered binary response data with application to a dating violence study

Kara A. Fulton, Danping Liu, Denise L. Haynie +1

The NEXT Generation Health study investigates the dating violence of adolescents using a survey questionnaire. Each student is asked to affirm or deny multiple instances of violenc…

astro-ph.SR2015★ 59 cited

Survival and Structure of Dusty Vortices in Protoplanetary Discs

Ivo Crnkovic-Rubsamen, Zhaohuan Zhu, James M. Stone

We have studied the impact of dust feedback on the survival and structure of vortices in protoplanetary discs using 2-D shearing box simulations with Lagrangian dust particles. We…

stat.AP2015★ 17 cited

The use of covariates and random effects in evaluating predictive biomarkers under a potential outcome framework

Zhiwei Zhang, Lei Nie, Guoxing Soon +1

Predictive or treatment selection biomarkers are usually evaluated in a subgroup or regression analysis with focus on the treatment-by-marker interaction. Under a potential outcome…

cs.NE2014★ 5 cited

Brain: Biological noise-based logic

Laszlo B. Kish, Claes-Goran Granqvist, Sergey M. Bezrukov +1

Neural spikes in the brain form stochastic sequences, i.e., belong to the class of pulse noises. This stochasticity is a counterintuitive feature because extracting information - s…

cs.ET2014★ 6 cited

Bird's-eye view on Noise-Based Logic

Laszlo B. Kish, Claes-Goran Granqvist, Tamas Horvath +3

Noise-based logic is a practically deterministic logic scheme inspired by the randomness of neural spikes and uses a system of uncorrelated stochastic processes and their superposi…

physics.med-ph2012★ 41 cited

Sparse and Optimal Acquisition Design for Diffusion MRI and Beyond

Cheng Guan Koay, Evren Özarslan, Kevin M Johnson +1

The focus of this paper is on the development of a sparse and optimal acquisition (SOA) design for diffusion MRI multiple-shell acquisition and beyond. A novel optimality criterion…

stat.AP2012★ 4 cited

Marginal analysis of longitudinal count data in long sequences: Methods and applications to a driving study

Zhiwei Zhang, Paul S. Albert, Bruce Simons-Morton

Most of the available methods for longitudinal data analysis are designed and validated for the situation where the number of subjects is large and the number of observations per s…

stat.AP2012★ 13 cited

A combined efficient design for biomarker data subject to a limit of detection due to measuring instrument sensitivity

Enrique F. Schisterman, Albert Vexler, Aijun Ye +1

Pooling specimens, a well-accepted sampling strategy in biomedical research, can be applied to reduce the cost of studying biomarkers. Even if the cost of a single assay is not a m…

cs.CE2011★ 71 cited

Schroedinger Eigenmaps for the Analysis of Bio-Medical Data

Wojciech Czaja, Martin Ehler

We introduce Schroedinger Eigenmaps, a new semi-supervised manifold learning and recovery technique. This method is based on an implementation of graph Schroedinger operators with…

math.NA2010★ 20 cited

Shrinkage Rules for Variational Minimization Problems and Applications to Analytical Ultracentrifugation

Martin Ehler

Finding a sparse representation of a possibly noisy signal can be modeled as a variational minimization with l_q-sparsity constraints for q less than one. Especially for real-time,…

stat.AP2010★ 47 cited

An approach for jointly modeling multivariate longitudinal measurements and discrete time-to-event data

Paul S. Albert, Joanna H. Shih

In many medical studies, patients are followed longitudinally and interest is on assessing the relationship between longitudinal measurements and time to an event. Recently, variou…

cond-mat.mes-hall2009★ 31 cited

Dispersion Interactions between Optically Anisotropic Cylinders at all Separations: Retardation Effects for Insulating and Semiconducting Single Wall Carbon Nanotubes

A. Šiber, R. F. Rajter, R. H. French +3

We derive the complete form of the van der Waals dispersion interaction between two infinitely long anisotropic semiconducting/insulating thin cylinders at all separations. The der…

cond-mat.soft2009★ 52 cited

Weak and Strong-Coupling Electrostatic Interactions between Asymmetrically Charged Planar Surfaces

M. Kanduc, M. Trulsson, A. Naji +3

We compare weak and strong coupling theory of counterion-mediated electrostatic interactions between two asymmetrically charged plates with extensive Monte-Carlo simulations. Analy…

physics.gen-ph2009★ 41 cited

Deterministic multivalued logic scheme for information processing and routing in the brain

S. M. Bezrukov, L. B. Kish

Driven by analogies with state vectors of quantum informatics and noise-based logic, we propose a general scheme and elements of neural circuitry for processing and addressing info…