Publications

The effect of novel polymorphisms in the interleukin-6 (IL-6) gene on IL-6 transcription and plasma IL-6 levels, and an association with systemic-onset juvenile chronic arthritis.

During active disease, patients with systemic-onset juvenile chronic arthritis (S-JCA) demonstrate a rise and fall in serum interleukin-6 (IL-6) that parallels the classic quoti...

Technology as an Occasion for Structuring: Evidence from Observations of CT Scanners and the Social Order of Radiology Departments

Principles of Communication Engineering

Textbook on communication engineering emphasizing random processes, information and detection theory, statistical communication theory, applications, etc

Random-Walk Computation of Similarities between Nodes of a Graph with Application to Collaborative Recommendation

This work presents a new perspective on characterizing the similarity between elements of a database or, more generally, nodes of a weighted and undirected graph. It is based on...

The National Lung Screening Trial: Overview and Study Design

The National Lung Screening Trial (NLST) is a randomized multicenter study comparing low-dose helical computed tomography (CT) with chest radiography in the screening of older c...

Computer-Mediated Communication Effects on Disclosure, Impressions, and Interpersonal Evaluations: Getting to Know One Another a Bit at a Time

This investigation examined how computer-mediated communication (CMC) partners exchange personal information in initial interactions, focusing on the effects of communication ch...

Annual report to the nation on the status of cancer, 1975–2001, with a special feature regarding survival

Abstract BACKGROUND The American Cancer Society (ACS), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the National Cancer Institute (NCI), and the North American Associat...

The mode of antimicrobial action of the essential oil of Melaleuca alternifolia (tea tree oil)

The essential oil of Melaleuca alternifolia (tea tree) exhibits broad-spectrum antimicrobial activity. Its mode of action against the Gram-negative bacterium Escherichia coli AG...

Effects of primer-template mismatches on the polymerase chain reaction: Human immunodeficiency virus type 1 model studies

We investigated the effects of various primer-template mismatches on DNA amplification of an HIV-1 gag region by the polymerase chain reaction (PCR). Single internal mismatches ...

Distributed Kalman Filter with Embedded Consensus Filters

The problem of distributed Kalman filtering (DKF) for sensor networks is one of the most fundamental distributed estimation problems for scalable sensor fusion. This paper addre...

Entry Deterrence in the Ready-to-Eat Breakfast Cereal Industry

This paper presents an analysis of the ready-to-eat breakfast cereal industry based on and related to the current antitrust case involving its leading producers. A spatial compe...

Deep convolutional neural fields for depth estimation from a single image

We consider the problem of depth estimation from a sin- gle monocular image in this work. It is a challenging task as no reliable depth cues are available, e.g., stereo corre- s...