Background: Even though real-time PCR has been broadly applied in biomedical sciences, data processing procedures for the analysis of quantitative real-time PCR are still lacking;...
Joshua S. Yuan, Ann Reed, Feng Chen, C. Neal Stewa...
Motivation: A microarray experiment is a multi-step process, and each step is a potential source of variation. There are two major sources of variation: biological variation and t...
James J. Chen, Robert R. Delongchamp, Chen-An Tsai...
Minimizing the rank of a matrix subject to constraints is a challenging problem that arises in many applications in control theory, machine learning, and discrete geometry. This c...
A visual search is required when applying a recognition process on a scene containing multiple objects. In such cases, we would like to avoid an exhaustive sequential search. This...
The highly variable and dynamic word usage in social media presents serious challenges for both research and those commercial applications that are geared towards blogs or other u...