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An analysis of stellar interferometers as wavefront sensors
This paper presents the basic principle and theoretical relationships of an
original method allowing to retrieve the Wavefront Errors (WFE) of a ground or
space-borne telescope when combining its main pupil with a second, decentered
reference optical arm. The measurement accuracy of such a
"telescope-interferometer" is then estimated by means of various numerical
simulations, demonstrating a high performance excepted on limited areas near
the telescope pupil rim. In particular, it allows direct phase evaluation (thus
avoiding the use of first or second-order derivatives), which is of special
interest for the co-phasing of segmented mirrors in future giant telescopes
projects. We finally define the useful practical domain of the method, which
seems to be better suited for periodical diagnostics of space or ground based
telescopes, or to real-time scientific observations in some very specific cases
(e.g. the central star in extrasolar planets searching instruments).Comment: 12 figure
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Systems biology of breast cancer
Breast cancer, with an alarming incidence rate throughout the globe, has attracted significant investigations to identify disease specific biomarkers. Among these, oestrogen receptor (ER) occupies a central role where overexpression is a prognostic indication for breast cancer. The cross-talk between the responsible contenders of ER-associated genes potentially play an important role in the disease aetiology. Investigation of such cross talk is the focus of this thesis. The development of high throughput technologies such as expression microarrays has paved the way for investigating thousands of genes at a time. Microarrays with their high data volume, multivariate nature and non-linearity pose challenges for analysing using conventional statistical approaches. To combat these challenges, computational researchers have developed machine learning approaches such as Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs). This thesis evaluates ANNs based methodologies and their application to the analysis of microarray data generated for breast cancer cases of differing oestrogen receptor status. Furthermore they are used for network inferencing to identify interactions between ER-associated markers and for the subsequent identification of putative pathway elements. The present thesis shows that it is possible to identify some ER-associated breast cancer relevant markers using ANNs. These have been subsequently validated on clinical breast tumour samples highlighting the promise of this approach