Case studies of two contrasting rainfall episodes in Hawaii

This case study, utilizing surface and upper-air data, has attempted to shed light on the mechanisms that exerted control on two contrasting rainfall episodes in Hawaii [in the dry winter of 1981 and wet winter of 1982].

Association of early growth response-1 gene polymorphisms with total IgE and atopy in asthmatic children

Early growth response-1 (Egr-1) is expressed in human airways and found to modulate tumor necrosis factor, immunoglobulin E (IgE), airway responsiveness, and interleukin-13-induced inflammation in mice. We investigated the effects of Chinese-tagging singl

水污染与浮游动物研究动态

<正> 浮游动物是水生生物中的一大生态类群,是水生食物链的重要环节。浮游动物中的许多种类,特别是溞类对污染物(如农药和重金属)尤其敏感。当污染物质进入水体时,往往影响浮游动物进而破坏水体的自然生态平衡。因此,各国学者大量开展研究工作。据统计,全世界已有一千种左右的化学药品做过溞类的毒性试验(Yung,1957)。试验

An Accelerated Chow and Liu Algorithm: Fitting Tree Distributions to High Dimensional Sparse Data

Chow and Liu introduced an algorithm for fitting a multivariate distribution with a tree (i.e. a density model that assumes that there are only pairwise dependencies between variables) and that the graph of these dependencies is a spanning tree. The original algorithm is quadratic in the dimesion of the domain, and linear in the number of data points that define the target distribution $P$. This paper shows that for sparse, discrete data, fitting a tree distribution can be done in time and memory that is jointly subquadratic in the number of variables and the size of the data set. The new algorithm, called the acCL algorithm, takes advantage of the sparsity of the data to accelerate the computation of pairwise marginals and the sorting of the resulting mutual informations, achieving speed ups of up to 2-3 orders of magnitude in the experiments.