Works Published in 2020
Displaying works 101 - 120 of 181 in total
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2020 journal article
Equiprobable discrete models of site-specific substitution rates underestimate the extent of rate variability
PLOS ONE, 15(3).
MeSH headings : Algorithms; Amino Acid Substitution; Evolution, Molecular; Likelihood Functions; Models, Genetic; Mutation Rate; Phylogeny; Sequence Alignment; Sequence Analysis, DNA / methods
TL;DR:
It is demonstrated that the variance of this discretized distribution has an upper bound determined solely by the choice of K and the mean of the distribution, which can introduce biases into statistical inference when estimating parameters governing site-to-site variability of substitution rates.
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UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
15. Life on Land
(Web of Science)
Source: Web Of Science
Added: June 15, 2020
2020 journal article
Regional and field-specific differences in Fusarium species and mycotoxins associated with blighted North Carolina wheat
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF FOOD MICROBIOLOGY, 323.
author keywords: Fusarium graminearum; Fusarium head blight; Fusarium tricinctum species complex; Scab; Deoxynivalenol; Moniliformin; Gibberella ear rot; Small grains; Chemotype
MeSH headings : Biodiversity; Edible Grain / microbiology; Fusarium / classification; Fusarium / physiology; Mycotoxins / analysis; Mycotoxins / metabolism; North Carolina; Plant Diseases; Trichothecenes / analysis; Trichothecenes / metabolism; Triticum / microbiology
TL;DR:
Surprisingly, although F. graminearum was the majority species detected, species in the Fusarium tricinctum species complex (FTSC) that produce "emerging mycotoxins" were frequent, and even dominant in some fields.
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UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
14. Life Below Water
(OpenAlex)
Source: Web Of Science
Added: June 15, 2020
2020 journal article
Research note: Shout-out survey for quantifying reasons for trail use
JOURNAL OF OUTDOOR RECREATION AND TOURISM-RESEARCH PLANNING AND MANAGEMENT, 29.
author keywords: Bicyclist; Greenway trail use; Pedestrian; Poll; Recreation; Survey; Transportation
TL;DR:
A series of signs along trails were placed asking users to shout out their answer to a simple question as they passed a surveyor, who also recorded observational data, offering a way to collect additional information as individuals pass surveyors who might otherwise collect only observational data.
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UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
3. Good Health and Well-being
(Web of Science)
Source: Web Of Science
Added: June 15, 2020
2020 journal article
Fully‐Textile Seam‐Line Sensors for Facile Textile Integration and Tunable Multi‐Modal Sensing of Pressure, Humidity, and Wetness
Advanced Materials Technologies.
author keywords: e-textiles; flexible sensors; humidity sensing; pressure sensing; wetness sensing
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
3. Good Health and Well-being
(Web of Science)
Source: ORCID
Added: June 5, 2020
2020 journal article
Bayesian Inference in Nonparanormal Graphical Models
BAYESIAN ANALYSIS, 15(2), 449–475.
author keywords: Bayesian inference; nonparanormal; Gaussian graphical models; sparsity; continuous shrinkage prior
TL;DR:
A Bayesian approach is considered in the nonparanormal graphical model by putting priors on the unknown transformations through a random series based on B-splines where the coefficients are ordered to induce monotonicity and presents a posterior consistency result on the underlying transformation and the precision matrix.
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UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
3. Good Health and Well-being
(Web of Science)
Source: Web Of Science
Added: June 1, 2020
2020 journal article
Comparison of decay rates between native and non-native wood species in invaded forests of the southeastern US: a rapid assessment
BIOLOGICAL INVASIONS, 22(8), 2619–2632.
author keywords: Chinese privet; Exotic species; Japanese stiltgrass; Novel ecosystems; Plant traits
TL;DR:
The results from this study show that the differences in wood decay rates between native and non-native species and the effects of invasion are highly idiosyncratic, with effects depending greatly on species and ecological context.
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UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
15. Life on Land
(Web of Science; OpenAlex)
Source: Web Of Science
Added: May 26, 2020
2020 journal article
Use of standardized bioinformatics for the analysis of fungal DNA signatures applied to sample provenance
FORENSIC SCIENCE INTERNATIONAL, 310.
author keywords: Forensic microbiology; Bioinformatics; Metabarcoding; Sample provenance
MeSH headings : DNA Barcoding, Taxonomic; DNA, Fungal / chemistry; Demography; Forensic Sciences; Fungi; Humans; Reference Values; Soil
TL;DR:
Investigating a small-scale approach as an adaptation of a larger metabarcoding study to develop a model for global sample provenance using fungal DNA signatures collected from dust swabs to facilitate a standardized method for consistent, reproducible sample treatment.
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UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
3. Good Health and Well-being
(Web of Science)
Sources: Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries
Added: May 26, 2020
2020 journal article
Bayesian ordinal probit semiparametric regression models: KNHANES 2016 data analysis of the relationship between smoking behavior and coffee intake
KOREAN JOURNAL OF APPLIED STATISTICS, 33(1), 25–46.
author keywords: BSAR; Gaussian process; KNHANES data; Markov chain Monte Carlo; Ordinal probit; Semiparametric regression
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
3. Good Health and Well-being
(Web of Science)
Source: Web Of Science
Added: May 26, 2020
2020 journal article
Mechanistic models of PLC/PKC signaling implicate phosphatidic acid as a key amplifier of chemotactic gradient sensing
PLOS COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY, 16(4).
MeSH headings : Animals; Chemotaxis / physiology; Diglycerides / metabolism; Fibroblasts / metabolism; Humans; Intracellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins / metabolism; Membrane Proteins / metabolism; Models, Theoretical; Myristoylated Alanine-Rich C Kinase Substrate / metabolism; Phosphatidic Acids / metabolism; Phosphatidic Acids / physiology; Phospholipase D / metabolism; Phosphorylation; Platelet-Derived Growth Factor / metabolism; Protein Kinase C / metabolism; Protein Kinase C / physiology; Signal Transduction / physiology; Type C Phospholipases / metabolism; Type C Phospholipases / physiology
TL;DR:
In simulations of wound invasion, efficient collective migration is achieved with thresholds for chemotaxis matching those of polarization in the reaction-diffusion models, and increasing DAG kinase activity can enhance the robustness of DAG/active PKC polarization with respect to chemoattractant concentration while decreasing their whole-cell levels.
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UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
3. Good Health and Well-being
(Web of Science)
Source: Web Of Science
Added: May 26, 2020
2020 journal article
Model-free posterior inference on the area under the receiver operating characteristic curve
JOURNAL OF STATISTICAL PLANNING AND INFERENCE, 209, 174–186.
author keywords: Credible interval; Gibbs posterior; Generalized bayesian inference; Model misspecification; Robustness
TL;DR:
A direct and model-free Gibbs posterior distribution for inference on the AUC is developed and the asymptotic Gibbs posterior concentration rate is presented, and a strategy for tuning the learning rate so that the corresponding credible intervals achieve the nominal frequentist coverage probability.
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UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
3. Good Health and Well-being
(Web of Science)
5. Gender Equality
(Web of Science)
Source: Web Of Science
Added: May 26, 2020
2020 journal article
Spine and dine: A key defensive trait promotes ecological success in spiny ants
ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION, 10(12), 5852–5863.
author keywords: competition; defense; morphological trait; predator-prey interactions; spines
TL;DR:
Spines appear to confer broad antipredator benefits and serve as a form of defense with undetectable costs to key ecological abilities like resource foraging and competitive ability, providing an explanation for both the ecological success of the study genus and the large number of evolutionary origins of this trait across all ants.
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UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
15. Life on Land
(Web of Science)
Source: Web Of Science
Added: May 18, 2020
2020 journal article
Bayesian linear regression for multivariate responses under group sparsity
BERNOULLI, 26(3), 2353–2382.
author keywords: Bayesian variable selection; covariance matrix; group sparsity; multivariate linear regression; posterior contraction rate; Renyi divergence; spike-and-slab prior
TL;DR:
The posterior contraction rate is derived using the general theory by constructing a suitable test from the first principle using moment bounds for certain likelihood ratios, which leads to posterior concentration around the truth with respect to the average Renyi divergence of order 1/2.
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UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
3. Good Health and Well-being
(Web of Science)
Source: Web Of Science
Added: May 18, 2020
2020 journal article
Rating exotic price coverage in crop revenue insurance
AGRICULTURAL FINANCE REVIEW, 80(5), 609–631.
author keywords: Crop revenue insurance; Nested copulas; Domestic credit; Exotic price coverage
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
Sources: Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries
Added: May 18, 2020
2020 journal article
Exploring the Usefulness of Meteorological Data for Predicting Malaria Cases in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh
WEATHER CLIMATE AND SOCIETY, 12(2), 323–330.
author keywords: Atmosphere; Asia; Air quality; Climate change
TL;DR:
The analyses show that the incremental increase in meteorological parameters does not lead to an increase in reported malaria cases in the same manner for all of the districts within the same state, which suggests that other factors such as vegetation, elevation, and water index in the environment also influence disease occurrence.
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UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
3. Good Health and Well-being
(Web of Science; OpenAlex)
Sources: Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries
Added: May 18, 2020
2020 journal article
Variable selection in functional linear concurrent regression
JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL STATISTICAL SOCIETY SERIES C-APPLIED STATISTICS, 69(3), 565–587.
author keywords: Fisheries footprint; Functional linear concurrent regression; Variable selection
TL;DR:
Through simulations, it is illustrated that the variable‐selection method developed can pick out the relevant variables with high accuracy and has minuscule false positive and false negative rate even when data are observed sparsely, are contaminated with noise and the error process is highly non‐stationary.
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UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
3. Good Health and Well-being
(Web of Science)
14. Life Below Water
(OpenAlex)
Sources: Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries
Added: May 18, 2020
2020 journal article
Form-stable phase-change elastomer gels derived from thermoplastic elastomer copolyesters swollen with fatty acids
THERMOCHIMICA ACTA, 686.
author keywords: Thermoplastic elastomer; Physical crosslinking; Thermal storage; Phase-change material; Energy conservation
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
7. Affordable and Clean Energy
(Web of Science)
Sources: Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries
Added: May 8, 2020
2020 journal article
A STATISTICAL ANALYSIS OF NOISY CROWDSOURCED WEATHER DATA
ANNALS OF APPLIED STATISTICS, 14(1), 116–142.
author keywords: Veracity score; geostatistics; robust kriging; hyperlocal spatial prediction
TL;DR:
A reliability metric, namely Veracity Score (VS), is introduced to assess the quality of the crowdsourced observations using a coarser, but high-quality, reference data to improve hyper-local spatial prediction using this varying-quality noisy crowdsourced information.
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UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
2. Zero Hunger
(Web of Science)
Sources: Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries
Added: May 8, 2020
2020 journal article
FastLORS: Joint modelling for expression quantitative trait loci mapping in R
STAT, 9(1).
author keywords: block coordinate descent; eQTL mapping; low-rank approximation; proximal gradient descent; sparse regression
TL;DR:
FastLORS is a software package that implements a new algorithm to solve sparse multivariate regression for expression quantitative trait loci (eQTLs) mapping that reduces the computational cost compared with LORS.
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UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
3. Good Health and Well-being
(Web of Science)
Sources: Web Of Science, ORCID, NC State University Libraries
Added: May 7, 2020
2020 journal article
Untargeted metabolomic profiling identifies disease-specific signatures in food allergy and asthma
JOURNAL OF ALLERGY AND CLINICAL IMMUNOLOGY, 145(3), 897–906.
author keywords: Asthma; food allergy; invariant natural killer T cells; metabolomics; metabolites; secondary bile acids; sphingolipids; tryptophan
MeSH headings : Asthma / blood; Biomarkers / blood; Child; Child, Preschool; Female; Food Hypersensitivity / blood; Humans; Male; Metabolome; Metabolomics / methods; Pilot Projects
TL;DR:
Children with FA display a disease-specific metabolomic profile that is informative of disease mechanisms and severity, and which dominates in the presence of asthma.
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UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
3. Good Health and Well-being
(Web of Science)
Source: Web Of Science
Added: April 27, 2020
2020 journal article
Aridity Trends in Central America: A Spatial Correlation Analysis
Atmosphere.
author keywords: aridity; Central American climate; spatial correlation; trend analysis; variability
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
13. Climate Action
(OpenAlex)
Source: ORCID
Added: April 25, 2020
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