Leber's hereditary optic neuropathy (LHON) is a rare, maternally inherited genetic disease
caused by a mutation of mitochondrial DNA. Classical descriptions have highlighted …

Background Genomic prediction is an advanced method for estimating genetic values,
which has been widely accepted for genetic evaluation in animal and disease-risk prediction …

The advancements in science and technology in recent years have extended the scale of
engineering problems. Discovery of new materials with desirable properties, drug discovery …

Respondent-driven sampling (RDS) is a snowball-type sampling method used to survey
hidden populations, that is, those that lack a sampling frame. In this work, we consider the …

Polynomial chaos expresses a probability density function (pdf) as a linear combination of
basis polynomials. If the density and basis polynomials are over the same field, any set of …

The increasing popularity of mobile video streaming in wireless networks has stimulated
growing demands for efficient video streaming services. However, due to the time-varying …

Many applications, such as machine learning and data sensing, are statistical in nature and
can tolerate some level of inaccuracy in their computation. A variety of designs have been …

In order to ensure that a car-following model's output is as close to reality as possible, the
model's parameters must be calibrated carefully. As simulation models are computationally …

Recently, there has been a focus on improving the user's emotional state by providing high-
quality sound beyond noise reduction against industrial product noise. Three-dimensional …

Many data-driven applications, including computer vision, machine learning, speech
recognition, and medical diagnostics show tolerance to computation error. These …