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The Roles of the L4-22K and L4-33K Proteins during Adenovirus Infection

Wu, Kai (The Graduate School, Stony Brook University: Stony Brook, NY., 1-Dec-12)

Adenoviruses are a common cause of upper respiratory tract infection, conjunctivitis, and gastroenteritis. Fortunately, most of these infections are self-limiting and rarely cause severe or lethal diseases. Based on its ...
The impact of diabatic heating on jet variability and shift

Xia, Xiaoming (The Graduate School, Stony Brook University: Stony Brook, NY., 1-Dec-12)

The IPCC-AR4 simulations project a robust poleward shift and slight strengthening of the mid-latitude jet and storm track in the Southern Hemisphere under global warming. In order to find out why the jet and storm track ...
Adjusting for population stratification in longitudinal quantitative trait locus identification

Wang, Yifan (The Graduate School, Stony Brook University: Stony Brook, NY., 1-Aug-12)

Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) are widely used to detect genotypes associated with complex diseases. Such GWAS studies of disease progression over time may be clinically significant. Longitudinal quantitative trait ...
New Development in Cluster Analysis and Other Related Multivariate Analysis Methods

Zhang, Shaonan (The Graduate School, Stony Brook University: Stony Brook, NY., 1-May-12)

Cluster analysis is a multivariate analysis method aimed at (1) unraveling the natural groupings embedded within the data, and (2) dimension reduction. With the wide application of cluster analysis in the diversified modern ...
Evolution of the Cardiac Electrophysiological System and Regulation of Ion Channel Gene Expression

Yan, Qinghong (The Graduate School, Stony Brook University: Stony Brook, NY., 1-Dec-12)

There are two basic ways by which biological systems can evolve, either by changes in the sequence of protein coding regions (structural evolution) or by changes in gene regulatory function (regulatory evolution). The ...

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