Model selection methods and their application in genome wide association studies

... feature selection methods confined to genome- wide association studies in Subsection Chapter1: Introduction 1.3.1 Model selection methods and some feature selection methods incorporated into model selection ... original SCAD method Chapter 3: Model selection criterion in generalized linear models 37 Chapter Model Selection Criteria in Generalized Linea...

Ngày tải lên: 11/09/2015, 16:05

... susceptibility to melanoma may also result in high-risk predisposition to other such forms of cutaneous malignancies [12] Risk variants of cutaneous malignancies Association with pigmentation phenotype and ... 1)) for CM and BCC risk Three cohorts (810 individuals with CM and 36,723 non-CM controls from Iceland; 1,033 CM cases and 2,650 controls from Sweden and...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 12:20

... y) and w a vector of feature weights Learning in this case is equivalent to assigning appropriate weights in the vector w In the online learning framework, the weight vector is constructed incrementally ... is tuned automatically (Tipping, 2001), and a possible extension to our work could be to adapt those models to the multinomial and costsensitive setting We applied the...

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 12:20

... °C in air at a heating rate of 10 °C min-1 X-ray diffraction (XRD) analysis was performed on a D/MAX-RAX diffractometer with Cu KR radiation (λ ) 0.154 18 nm) operating at 40 kV and 100 mA Diffraction ... porous R -Fe2O3 nanorods increases dramatically with the increase in the ethanol vapor concentration and is much higher than that of the R -Fe2O3 nanoparticles under...

Ngày tải lên: 19/03/2014, 16:48

... further investigated by the TEM image as shown in Fig 1b, and the intensive contrast between center and edge of the spheres indicates the formation of hollow structure in the final products, and the ... 300 and 400°C) In the gas- sensing test, HCHO gas was diluted in water vapor, and the flow velocity of the mixed gas was controlled at 0.6 L/min The sensor sensi...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 17:20

... surface of MnO2 and also possible intercalation/deintercalation of H? and alkaline metal cations in the bulk of MnO2 [29] Since the 3-D dandelion-like microspheres of the sample A are composed of ... 1036 substrate in the thin film form The effects of the synthesis temperature on the morphology of the films are investigated, and the capacitive behaviors of nan...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 20:20

... also contains the ligand The nanoparticle binds to the analyte which causes an increase in mass upon binding to the ligand on the surface of the sensor and causing a boost in signal Another mass ... globulin proteins by comparing the peak height of the DNA peaks71 24 1.5 Objectives and Scope of the dissertation The focus of this thesis will be on the d...

Ngày tải lên: 10/09/2015, 09:22

...   HIGHLY CONDUCTIVE POLY( 3,4- ETHYLENEDIOXYTHIOPHENE): POLY( STYR ENESULFONATE) (PEDOT: PSS) FILMS AND THEIR APPLICATION IN POLYMER PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICES         XIA YIJIE  ... conventional coating, such as drop casting and spin coating, inkjet printing and stamp printing were also developed to process conducting polymers These methods can produce conducting...

Ngày tải lên: 10/09/2015, 15:49

... The hybrid methods TDFEM -PSTD, PSTD- FDTD and FMM -PSTD developed in this thesis improve the accuracy of the traditional PSTD method and preserve the efficiency of the PSTD algorithm They help to ... examining the accuracy and efficiency of the PSTD- FDTD method in the 11 analysis of classical Fresnel Zone Plates, some novel Fresnel Zone P...

Ngày tải lên: 11/09/2015, 09:00

... technologies for characterizing dynamic MEMS and their applications in MEMS testing Doppler vibrometry (LDV) have been demonstrated for measuring the motion of a variety of microstructures including micromechanical ... in the area of long- term device testing Device long- term performance is an indication of reliability and ultimately quality, and is expected t...

Ngày tải lên: 11/09/2015, 09:58

... developments and applications of global optimization can be found in engineering discipline including chemical engineering The reason is that mathematical programming is an active and vibrant research in ... Global Optimization Techniques for Chemical Engineering Applications Many chemical engineering problems involve optimization of highly nonlinear and...

Ngày tải lên: 13/09/2015, 21:39

... types of advanced similarity queries - the kNN join and the RkNN query and illustrated their application in data mining with a novel data mining tool - BORDER We hope that ongoing research in similarity ... COMPUTING NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE 2005 iii Summary This thesis studies advanced similarity queries and their application in knowledge dis...

Ngày tải lên: 15/09/2015, 21:48

... STUDY OF SAMPLE PREPARATION AND PRETREATMENT METHODS AND THEIR APPLICATIONS, IN COMBINATION WITH HIGH- RESOLUTION CHROMATOGRAPHY BY ZHU XUERONG (M.SC.) A thesis submitted for the degree of ... developing and improving instrumentation, data-handling and report-generating software, while sample preparation and pretreatment methods have been more or...

Ngày tải lên: 16/09/2015, 15:54

... effectively increase the surface area of the heat sink Recently, interest in jet impingement cooling (Lee et al., 1999) of electronics cooling has been significantly increased The working fluids ... flux after the source is measured in point 1, then at the exit of the kaleidoscope in point 2, and finally after having passed the fused silica window in point 145 Figure 6.8 The exp...

Ngày tải lên: 16/09/2015, 15:55

... limited number of background meshes 1.3.3 Mesh- free methods of non-integral type 1.3.3.1 Drawbacks of mesh- free methods of integral type in the flow simulations The mesh- free methods of integral type ... DEVELOPMENT OF MESH- FREE METHODS AND THEIR APPLICATIONS IN COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS DING HANG (B Eng., M Eng.) A THESIS SUBMITTED FOR...

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