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A Conversation with Shoutir Kishore Chatterjee
Shoutir Kishore Chatterjee was born in Ranchi, a small hill station in India,
on November 6, 1934. He received his B.Sc. in statistics from the Presidency
College, Calcutta, in 1954, and M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in statistics from the
University of Calcutta in 1956 and 1962, respectively. He was appointed a
lecturer in the Department of Statistics, University of Calcutta, in 1960 and
was a member of its faculty until his retirement as a professor in 1997.
Indeed, from the 1970s he steered the teaching and research activities of the
department for the next three decades. Professor Chatterjee was the National
Lecturer in Statistics (1985--1986) of the University Grants Commission, India,
the President of the Section of Statistics of the Indian Science Congress
(1989) and an Emeritus Scientist (1997--2000) of the Council of Scientific and
Industrial Research, India. Professor Chatterjee, affectionately known as SKC
to his students and admirers, is a truly exceptional person who embodies the
spirit of eternal India. He firmly believes that ``fulfillment in man's life
does not come from amassing a lot of money, after the threshold of what is
required for achieving a decent living is crossed. It does not come even from
peer recognition for intellectual achievements. Of course, one has to work and
toil a lot before one realizes these facts.''Comment: Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/088342306000000565 the
Statistical Science (http://www.imstat.org/sts/) by the Institute of
Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org
Statistics of the inverse-cascade regime in two-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic turbulence
We present a detailed direct numerical simulation of statistically steady,
homogeneous, isotropic, two-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic (2D MHD)
turbulence. Our study concentrates on the inverse cascade of the magnetic
vector potential. We examine the dependence of the statistical properties of
such turbulence on dissipation and friction coefficients. We extend earlier
work sig- nificantly by calculating fluid and magnetic spectra, probability
distribution functions (PDFs) of the velocity, magnetic, vorticity, current,
stream-function, and magnetic-vector-potential fields and their increments. We
quantify the deviations of these PDFs from Gaussian ones by computing their
flatnesses and hyperflatnesses. We also present PDFs of the Okubo-Weiss
parameter, which distin- guishes between vortical and extensional flow regions,
and its magnetic analog. We show that the hyperflatnesses of PDFs of the
increments of the stream-function and the magnetic vector potential exhibit
significant scale dependence and we examine the implication of this for the
multiscaling of structure functions. We compare our results with those of
earlier studies
Identification of molecular mechanisms of resistance to transgenic maize producing the Cry1Fa protein in different \u3ci\u3eSpodoptera frugiperda\u3c/i\u3e populations
The use of transgenic maize event TC1507 producing the Cry1Fa insecticidal protein from the bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis has been very useful to control the target lepidopteran insect pest Spodoptera frugiperda. The extensive use of this transgenic maize event resulted in high selection pressure for development of Cry1Fa resistance in field insects in multiple locations, including Brazil, Puerto Rico and the southeastern USA. Resistance developed in Puerto Rico was characterized in the 456LS3 strain originated from that island as monogenic, autosomal recessive and associated with reduced expression of a membrane bound alkaline phosphatase (SfmALP2). Currently, we focused on identifying the allele responsible for resistance in the 456LS3 and in alternative Cry1Fa-resistant strains from Florida (FL39) and North Carolina (NCBt13).
Linkage tests between resistance to TC1507 and reduced levels of SfmALP2 in 456LS3 supported absence of a genetic linkage. We identified an allele of an ATP-binding cassette subfamily C2 (SfABCC2) gene resulting in a premature stop codon and truncated protein. We tested linkage of this allele (SfABCC2mut) with resistance to TC1507 and found it cosegregated with resistance to Cry1Fa maize. The SfABCC2mut allele was also detected in field populations of S. frugiperda from Puerto Rico. Additional SfABCC2 mutant alleles were identified from S. frugiperda surviving on TC1507 plants in Puerto Rico.
Characterization of a TC1507- resistant strain of S. frugiperda originated from Florida (FL39), suggested a shared resistance locus with 456LS3. We found lack of linkage between reduced SfmALP2 levels and resistance to TC1507 in FL39, and detected another variant of the SfABCC2 gene (SfABCC2mut3) that showed strong linkage with Cry1Fa maize resistance.
An additional mutant allele of SfABCC2 resulting in a truncated protein was detected in the NCBt13 resistant strain from North Carolina.
Our findings support linkage of different alleles of a single gene (SfABCC2) with resistance to Cry1Fa maize that evolved in diverse locations in North America. This information and the genotyping methods developed in this work are relevant to monitor and understand dispersal of resistance, and to guide refinement of current resistance management practices to extend the sustainable use of transgenic maize producing Cry insecticidal proteins
Transport, multifractality, and the breakdown of single-parameter scaling at the localization transition in quasiperiodic systems
There has been a revival of interest in localization phenomena in
quasiperiodic systems with a view to examining how they differ fundamentally
from such phenomena in random systems. Mo- tivated by this, we study transport
in the quasiperiodic, one-dimentional (1d) Aubry-Andre model and its
generalizations to 2d and 3d. We study the conductance of open systems,
connected to leads, as well as the Thouless conductance, which measures the
response of a closed system to boundary perturbations. We find that these
conductances show signatures of a metal-insulator transition from an insulator,
with localized states, to a metal, with extended states having (a) ballistic
transport (1d), (b) superdiffusive transport (2d), or (c) diffusive transport
(3d); precisely at the transition, the system displays sub-diffusive critical
states. We calculate the beta function and show
that, in 1d and 2d, single-parameter scaling is unable to describe the
transition. Further- more, the conductances show strong non-monotonic
variations with L and an intricate structure of resonant peaks and subpeaks. In
1d the positions of these peaks can be related precisely to the prop- erties of
the number that characterizes the quasiperiodicity of the potential; and the
L-dependence of the Thouless conductance is multifractal. We find that, as d
increases, this non-monotonic de- pendence of g on L decreases and, in 3d, our
results for are reasonably well approximated by single-parameter
scaling.Comment: 13 pages, 6 figure
Multiscaling in Hall-Magnetohydrodynamic Turbulence: Insights from a Shell Model
We show that a shell-model version of the three-dimensional
Hall-magnetohydrodynamic (3D Hall-MHD) equations provides a natural theoretical
model for investigating the multiscaling behaviors of velocity and magnetic
structure functions. We carry out extensive numerical studies of this shell
model, obtain the scaling exponents for its structure functions, in both the
low- and high- power-law ranges of 3D Hall-MHD, and find that the
extended-self-similarity (ESS) procedure is helpful in extracting the
multiscaling nature of structure functions in the high- regime, which
otherwise appears to display simple scaling. Our results shed light on
intriguing solar-wind measurements.Comment: 7 pages, 6 figure
Two-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic turbulence with large and small energy-injection length scales
Two-dimensional magnetohydrodynamics (2D MHD), forced at (a) large length
scales or (b) small length scales, displays turbulent, but statistically
steady, states with widely different statistical properties. We present a
systematic, comparative study of these two cases (a) and (b) by using direct
numerical simulations (DNSs). We find that, in case (a), there is energy
equipartition between the magnetic and velocity fields, whereas, in case (b),
such equipartition does not exist. By computing various probability
distribution functions (PDFs), we show that case (a) displays extreme events
that are much less common in case (b)
Optimal factorial designs for cDNA microarray experiments
We consider cDNA microarray experiments when the cell populations have a
factorial structure, and investigate the problem of their optimal designing
under a baseline parametrization where the objects of interest differ from
those under the more common orthogonal parametrization. First, analytical
results are given for the factorial. Since practical applications
often involve a more complex factorial structure, we next explore general
factorials and obtain a collection of optimal designs in the saturated, that
is, most economic, case. This, in turn, is seen to yield an approach for
finding optimal or efficient designs in the practically more important nearly
saturated cases. Thereafter, the findings are extended to the more intricate
situation where the underlying model incorporates dye-coloring effects, and the
role of dye-swapping is critically examined.Comment: Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/07-AOAS144 the Annals of
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Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org
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