Browsing by Author "Presser, Aviva"

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    • Clean Lighting Leads to Improved Health in Rural Africa: Field Study and Design of a Dirt-Powered Generator 

      Aiden, Aviva Presser (2014-07-07)
      Two billion people world-wide use kerosene-burning lamps for household lighting. These lamps produce large quantities of soot. In Chapter 2, I describe our field study examining 230 people in rural Uganda. I show that ...

    • Genomewide Analysis of PRC1 and PRC2 Occupancy Identifies Two Classes of Bivalent Domains 

      Rheinbay, Esther; Endoh, Mitsuhiro; Mikkelsen, Tarjei S.; Nusbaum, Chad; Xie, Xiaohui; Adli, Mazhar; Kasif, Simon; Ptaszek, Leon M.; Koseki, Haruhiko; van Steensel, Bas; Ku, Manching; Koche, Richard Patrick; Mendenhall, Eric M; Presser, Aviva; Chi, Andrew S.; Cowan, Chad A.; Lander, Eric Steven; Bernstein, Bradley E. (Public Library of Science, 2008)
      In embryonic stem (ES) cells, bivalent chromatin domains with overlapping repressive (H3 lysine 27 tri-methylation) and activating (H3 lysine 4 tri-methylation) histone modifications mark the promoters of more than 2,000 ...

    • De novo assembly of the Aedes aegypti genome using Hi-C yields chromosome-length scaffolds 

      Dudchenko, Olga; Batra, Sanjit S.; Omer, Arina D.; Nyquist, Sarah K.; Hoeger, Marie; Durand, Neva C.; Shamim, Muhammad S.; Machol, Ido; Lander, Eric Steven; Aiden, Aviva; Aiden, Erez Lieberman (American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2017)
      The Zika outbreak, spread by the Aedes aegypti mosquito, highlights the need to create high-quality assemblies of large genomes in a rapid and cost-effective fashion. Here, we combine Hi-C data with existing draft ...

    • Quantitative Analysis of Culture Using Millions of Digitized Books 

      Michel, Jean-Baptiste; Shen, Yuan Kui; Aiden, Aviva Presser; Veres, Adrian; Gray, Matthew K.; Google Books Team; Pickett, Joseph; Hoiberg, Dale; Clancy, Dan; Norvig, Peter; Orwant, Jon; Pinker, Steven; Nowak, Martin A.; Aiden, Erez Lieberman (American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2011)
      We constructed a corpus of digitized texts containing about 4% of all books ever printed. Analysis of this corpus enables us to investigate cultural trends quantitatively. We survey the vast terrain of ‘culturomics,’ ...