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EDM
2009
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13 years 5 months ago
Using Learning Decomposition and Bootstrapping with Randomization to Compare the Impact of Different Educational Interventions o
A basic question of instructional interventions is how effective it is in promoting student learning. This paper presents a study to determine the relative efficacy of different in...
Mingyu Feng, Joseph Beck, Neil T. Heffernan
BMCBI
2010
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13 years 7 months ago
A knowledge-guided strategy for improving the accuracy of scoring functions in binding affinity prediction
Background: Current scoring functions are not very successful in protein-ligand binding affinity prediction albeit their popularity in structure-based drug designs. Here, we propo...
Tiejun Cheng, Zhihai Liu, Renxiao Wang
BMCBI
2006
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13 years 7 months ago
Searching for interpretable rules for disease mutations: a simulated annealing bump hunting strategy
Background: Understanding how amino acid substitutions affect protein functions is critical for the study of proteins and their implications in diseases. Although methods have bee...
Rui Jiang, Hua Yang, Fengzhu Sun, Ting Chen
BMCBI
2007
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13 years 7 months ago
Assessing the ability of sequence-based methods to provide functional insight within membrane integral proteins: a case study an
Background: Efforts to predict functional sites from globular proteins is increasingly common; however, the most successful of these methods generally require structural insight. ...
Dennis R. Livesay, Patrick D. Kidd, Sepehr Eskanda...
HAPTICS
2009
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Haptic stiffness identification by veterinarians and novices: A comparison
Palpation is important in both veterinary and medical health professions. It is however difficult to learn, teach and assess. More must be understood about the skills involved in ...
Neil Forrest, Sarah Baillie, Hong Z. Tan