Batch Effects are Causal Effects: Applications in Human Connectomics

Kavli Affiliate: Brian Caffo, Joshua Vogelstein | Authors: Eric W. Bridgeford, Michael Powell, Gregory Kiar, Stephanie Noble, Jaewon Chung, Sambit Panda, Ross Lawrence, Ting Xu, Michael Milham, Brian Caffo and Joshua T. Vogelstein | Summary: Batch effects, undesirable sources of variance across multiple experiments, present a substantial hurdle for scientific and clinical discoveries. Specifically, the […]


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A systematic search for RNA structural switches across the human transcriptome

Kavli Affiliate: Yifan Cheng | Authors: Matvei Khoroshkin, Daniel Asarnow, Albertas Navickas, Aidan Winters, Johnny Yu, Simon K. Zhou, Shaopu Zhou, Christina Palka, Lisa Fish, K. Mark Ansel, Yifan Cheng, Luke A. Gilbert and Hani Goodarzi | Summary: RNA structural switches are key regulators of gene expression in bacteria, yet their characterization in Metazoa remains […]


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Angular spectrum of quantum fluctuations in causal structure

Kavli Affiliate: Craig Hogan | First 5 Authors: Craig Hogan, Ohkyung Kwon, Nathaniel Selub, , | Summary: Scaling arguments are used to constrain the angular spectrum of distortions on boundaries of macroscopic causal diamonds, produced by Planck-scale vacuum fluctuations of causally-coherent quantum gravity. The small-angle spectrum of displacement is derived from a form of scale […]


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Angular spectrum of quantum fluctuations in causal structure

Kavli Affiliate: Craig Hogan | First 5 Authors: Craig Hogan, Ohkyung Kwon, Nathaniel Selub, , | Summary: Scaling arguments are used to constrain the angular spectrum of distortions on boundaries of macroscopic causal diamonds, produced by Planck-scale vacuum fluctuations of causally-coherent quantum gravity. The small-angle spectrum of displacement is derived from a form of scale […]


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Modulation of dependencies by brain states in a laminar cortical circuit

Kavli Affiliate: Anirvan Nandy | Authors: Anirban Das, Alec G. Sheffield, Anirvan S. Nandy and Monika P. Jadi | Summary: Adaptive information processing, comprised of local computations and their efficient routing, is crucial for flexible brain function. Spatial attention is a quintessential example of this adaptive process. It is critical for recognizing and interacting with […]


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A Distributionally Robust Random Utility Model

Kavli Affiliate: David Muller | First 5 Authors: David Müller, Emerson Melo, Ruben Schlotter, , | Summary: This paper introduces the distributionally robust random utility model (DRO-RUM), which allows the preference shock (unobserved heterogeneity) distribution to be misspecified or unknown. We make three contributions using tools from the literature on robust optimization. First, by exploiting […]


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Single-Step Synthesis of Shape-Controlled Polymeric Particles using Initiated Chemical Vapor Deposition in Liquid Crystals

Kavli Affiliate: Nicholas L. Abbott | First 5 Authors: Apoorva Jain, Soumyamouli Pal, Nicholas L. Abbott, Rong Yang, | Summary: The ability to synthesize shape-controlled polymer particles will benefit a wide range of applications including targeted drug delivery and metamaterials with reconfigurable structures, but existing synthesis approaches are commonly multistep and limited to a narrow […]


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Single-Step Synthesis of Shape-Controlled Polymeric Particles using Initiated Chemical Vapor Deposition in Liquid Crystals

Kavli Affiliate: Nicholas L. Abbott | First 5 Authors: Apoorva Jain, Soumyamouli Pal, Nicholas L. Abbott, Rong Yang, | Summary: The ability to synthesize shape-controlled polymer particles will benefit a wide range of applications including targeted drug delivery and metamaterials with reconfigurable structures, but existing synthesis approaches are commonly multistep and limited to a narrow […]


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