264 research outputs found
VIPER: variability-preserving imputation for accurate gene expression recovery in single-cell RNA sequencing studies
Abstract
We develop a method, VIPER, to impute the zero values in single-cell RNA sequencing studies to facilitate accurate transcriptome quantification at the single-cell level. VIPER is based on nonnegative sparse regression models and is capable of progressively inferring a sparse set of local neighborhood cells that are most predictive of the expression levels of the cell of interest for imputation. A key feature of our method is its ability to preserve gene expression variability across cells after imputation. We illustrate the advantages of our method through several well-designed real data-based analytical experiments.https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/146264/1/13059_2018_Article_1575.pd
Healthy or Not: A Way to Predict Ecosystem Health in GitHub
With the development of open source community, through the interaction of developers, the collaborative development of software, and the sharing of software tools, the formation of open source software ecosystem has matured. Natural ecosystems provide ecological services on which human beings depend. Maintaining a healthy natural ecosystem is a necessity for the sustainable development of mankind. Similarly, maintaining a healthy ecosystem of open source software is also a prerequisite for the sustainable development of open source communities, such as GitHub. This paper takes GitHub as an example to analyze the health condition of open source ecosystem and, also, it is a research area in Symmetry. Firstly, the paper presents the healthy definition of GitHub open source ecosystem health and, then, according to the main components of natural ecosystem health, the paper proposes the health indicators and health indicators evaluation method. Based on the above, the GitHub ecosystem health prediction method is proposed. By analyzing the projects and data collected in GitHub, it is found that, using the proposed evaluation indicators and method, we can analyze the healthy development trend of the GitHub ecosystem and contribute to the stability of ecosystem development
Maxwell quasinormal modes on a global monopole Schwarzschild-anti-de Sitter black hole with Robin boundary conditions
We generalize our previous studies on the Maxwell quasinormal modes around
Schwarzschild-anti-de-Sitter black holes with Robin type vanishing energy flux
boundary conditions, by adding a global monopole on the background. We first
formulate the Maxwell equations both in the Regge-Wheeler-Zerilli and in the
Teukolsky formalisms and derive, based on the vanishing energy flux principle,
two boundary conditions in each formalism. The Maxwell equations are then
solved analytically in pure anti-de Sitter spacetimes with a global monopole,
and two different normal modes are obtained due to the existence of the
monopole parameter. In the small black hole and low frequency approximations,
the Maxwell quasinormal modes are solved perturbatively on top of normal modes
by using an asymptotic matching method, while beyond the aforementioned
approximation, the Maxwell quasinormal modes are obtained numerically. We
analyze the Maxwell quasinormal spectrum by varying the angular momentum
quantum number , the overtone number , and in particular, the monopole
parameter . We show explicitly, through calculating quasinormal
frequencies with both boundary conditions, that the global monopole produces
the repulsive force.Comment: 10 pages, 5 figures, to appear in EPJ
Asymptotically Normal and Efficient Estimation of Covariate-Adjusted Gaussian Graphical Model
A tuning-free procedure is proposed to estimate the covariate-adjusted Gaussian graphical model. For each finite subgraph, this estimator is asymptotically normal and efficient. As a consequence, a confidence interval can be obtained for each edge. The procedure enjoys easy implementation and efficient computation through parallel estimation on subgraphs or edges. We further apply the asymptotic normality result to perform support recovery through edge-wise adaptive thresholding. This support recovery procedure is called ANTAC, standing for Asymptotically Normal estimation with Thresholding after Adjusting Covariates. ANTAC outperforms other methodologies in the literature in a range of simulation studies. We apply ANTAC to identify gene-gene interactions using an eQTL dataset. Our result achieves better interpretability and accuracy in comparison with CAMPE
Image-based Geolocalization by Ground-to-2.5D Map Matching
We study the image-based geolocalization problem, aiming to localize
ground-view query images on cartographic maps. Current methods often utilize
cross-view localization techniques to match ground-view query images with 2D
maps. However, the performance of these methods is unsatisfactory due to
significant cross-view appearance differences. In this paper, we lift
cross-view matching to a 2.5D space, where heights of structures (e.g., trees
and buildings) provide geometric information to guide the cross-view matching.
We propose a new approach to learning representative embeddings from
multi-modal data. Specifically, we establish a projection relationship between
2.5D space and 2D aerial-view space. The projection is further used to combine
multi-modal features from the 2.5D and 2D maps using an effective
pixel-to-point fusion method. By encoding crucial geometric cues, our method
learns discriminative location embeddings for matching panoramic images and
maps. Additionally, we construct the first large-scale ground-to-2.5D map
geolocalization dataset to validate our method and facilitate future research.
Both single-image based and route based localization experiments are conducted
to test our method. Extensive experiments demonstrate that the proposed method
achieves significantly higher localization accuracy and faster convergence than
previous 2D map-based approaches
Thermal Boundary Conductance Across Metal-Nonmetal Interfaces: Effects of Electron-Phonon Coupling both in Metal and at Interface
We theoretically investigate the thermal boundary conductance across
metal-nonmetal interfaces in the presence of the electron-phonon coupling not
only in metal but also at interface. The thermal energy can be transferred from
metal to nonmetal via three channels: (1) the phonon-phonon coupling at
interface; (2) the electron-phonon coupling at interface; and (3) the
electron-phonon coupling within metal and then subsequently the phonon-phonon
coupling at interface. We find that these three channels can be described by an
equivalent series-parallel thermal resistor network, based on which we derive
out the analytic expression of the thermal boundary conductance. We then
exemplify different contributions from each channel to the thermal boundary
conductance in three typical interfaces: Pb-diamond, Ti-diamond, and TiN-MgO.
Our results reveal that the competition among above channels determines the
thermal boundary conductance.Comment: 17 pages, 2 figure
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