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Inexpensive Multiplexed Library Preparation for Megabase-Sized Genomes
(Public Library of Science, 2015)Whole-genome sequencing has become an indispensible tool of modern biology. However, the cost of sample preparation relative to the cost of sequencing remains high, especially for small genomes where the former is dominant. ... -
Inf.IV, 36: Parte o Porta?
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Infall and Outflow of Molecular Gas in Sgr B2
(American Astronomical Society, 2008)Observations of two \(H_2CO (3_{03}-2_{02} and 3_{21}-2_{20})\) lines and continuum emission at 1.3 mm toward Sgr B2(N) and Sgr B2(M) have been carried out with the SMA. The mosaic maps of Sgr B2(N) and Sgr B2(M) in both ... -
Infants' and toddlers' reasoning about others: Connections to prosocial development and language
(2014-10-21)Often overlooked in the study of theory of mind (ToM) development, the understanding of motivational states, such as goals and desires, is both an important capacity in its own right and also a likely precursor to more ... -
Infants' Understanding of Social Affiliation and Behavioral Conformity
(2013-03-06)This dissertation engages in two major hypotheses regarding infants' naïve theory of social relationships. First, it proposes that infants may apply a domain-specific understanding to represent and reason about social ... -
Infants’ Developing Understanding of Social Gaze
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2012)Young infants are sensitive to self-directed social actions, but do they appreciate the intentional, target-directed nature of such behaviors? The authors addressed this question by investigating infants’ understanding of ... -
Infants’ neural responses to facial emotion in the prefrontal cortex are correlated with temperament: a functional near-infrared spectroscopy study
(Frontiers Media S.A., 2015)Accurate decoding of facial expressions is critical for human communication, particularly during infancy, before formal language has developed. Different facial emotions elicit distinct neural responses within the first ... -
Infected erythrocyte-derived extracellular vesicles alter vascular function via regulatory Ago2-miRNA complexes in malaria
(Nature Publishing Group, 2016)Malaria remains one of the greatest public health challenges worldwide, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa. The clinical outcome of individuals infected with Plasmodium falciparum parasites depends on many factors including ... -
Infection Dynamics and Cell Type Specific Responses to Vesicular Stomatitis Virus Infection in the Mouse Brain
(2023-12-11)Viruses are excellent cell biologists. They can be harnessed to interrogate biological systems and co-opted as tools for therapeutic or research purposes. For a tool to operate best, it’s crucial to know how it functions ... -
Infectious Disease Modeling of Social Contagion in Networks
(Public Library of Science, 2010)Many behavioral phenomena have been found to spread interpersonally through social networks, in a manner similar to infectious diseases. An important difference between social contagion and traditional infectious diseases, ... -
Infectious Disease Modeling: Enhancing Epidemic Preparedness and Response
(2020-11-23)Recent outbreaks of Ebola, Zika, and COVID-19, among others, have shown how infectious diseases can decimate economies and destroy lives. Infectious disease models are important tools for preparing for, preventing, and ... -
Infectious Diseases and Economic Development
(2013-02-22)This dissertation contains three essays analyzing how disease (particularly communicable disease) and development interact. The first chapter explores how TseTse-transmitted Trypanosomiasis influenced African development. ... -
Inference and Missing Data
(Oxford University Press, 1976)When making sampling distribution inferences about the parameter of the data, {theta}, it is appropriate to ignore the process that causes missing data if the missing data are ‘missing at random’ and the observed data are ... -
Inference and Prediction for High Dimensional Data via Penalized Regression and Kernel Machine Methods
(2012-08-06)Analysis of high dimensional data often seeks to identify a subset of important features and assess their effects on the outcome. Furthermore, the ultimate goal is often to build a prediction model with these features that ... -
Inference and Prediction Problems for Spatial and Spatiotemporal Data
(2015-05-17)This dissertation focuses on prediction and inference problems for complex spatiotemporal systems. I explore three specific problems in this area---motivated by real data examples---and discuss the theoretical motivations ... -
Inference for Incomplete Data and Dependent Data
(2018-05-15)This thesis is about statistical inference on two classes of data: incomplete data (Chapters 1, 2 and 3) and dependent data (Chapter 4). Chapter 2 relaxes one crucial assumption made in Chapter 1, and then Chapter 3 further ... -
Inference for Mechanistic Network Models and Visualization of Real-World Network Data
(2023-09-07)Network analysis enables a comprehensive investigation of disease transmission dynamics by modeling and analyzing interactions among individuals and their connections. Mechanistic network models allow for modeling and ... -
Inference from Iterative Simulation Using Multiple Sequences
(Institute of Mathematical Statistics, 1992)The Gibbs sampler, the algorithm of Metropolis and similar iterative simulation methods are potentially very helpful for summarizing multivariate distributions. Used naively, however, iterative simulation can give misleading ... -
Inference in relational reasoning: A case study of Relational-Match-to-Sample
(2021-05-12)Adult humans are uniquely proficient in reasoning with abstract relations (relational reasoning) - a capacity which underpins much of human-unique cognition, including scientific analogies, artistic metaphors and many ... -
Inference of Expressive Declassification Policies
(IEEE Computer Society, 2011)We explore the inference of expressive human-readable declassification policies as a step towards providing practical tools and techniques for strong language-based information security. Security-type systems can enforce ...