A5087578556- Machine Learning in Healthcare
- Gene expression and cancer classification
- Traumatic Brain Injury and Neurovascular Disturbances
- Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies
- Epigenetics and DNA Methylation
- Traumatic Brain Injury Research
- Advanced Clustering Algorithms Research
- Bayesian Methods and Mixture Models
- Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals
- Chronic Disease Management Strategies
- Genetics and Physical Performance
- Medical Imaging and Analysis
- Autism Spectrum Disorder Research
- Circadian rhythm and melatonin
- Online and Blended Learning
- Statistics Education and Methodologies
- Algorithms and Data Compression
- S100 Proteins and Annexins
- Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation
- Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics
- Plant Molecular Biology Research
- Time Series Analysis and Forecasting
- Anomaly Detection Techniques and Applications
- Virology and Viral Diseases
- Statistical Methods and Inference
Missouri University of Science and Technology
2014-2025
Purdue University West Lafayette
2007-2013
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) imposes a significant economic and social burden. The diagnosis prognosis of mild TBI, also called concussion, is challenging. Concussions are common among contact sport athletes. After blow to the head, it often difficult determine who has had should be withheld from play, if concussed athlete ready return field, which will develop post-concussion syndrome. Biomarkers can detected in cerebrospinal fluid blood after traumatic their levels may have prognostic...
Down syndrome (DS) is caused by triplication of human chromosome 21 (Hsa21), resulting in skeletal insufficiency and altered postnatal bone development individuals with DS. DS mouse models have shown similar deficits to humans DS, mimicking differences between ages, sexes, compartments. The historic model, Ts65Dn, has provided much the mechanistic insight behind these DS-related deficits, but there are concerns over its construct validity. Ts65Dn mice an additional 60 trisomic genes that...
Academic dishonesty and how to address it are common concerns across higher education disciplines, but engineering students admit rates of academic than other students. However, first-year may be particularly receptive prevention efforts. Considering self-perception, social norming, behavioral choice theories, we hypothesized that 1.) Students who perceived themself as ethical more knowledgeable the consequences for misconduct would less likely self-report cheating 2.) plagiarism cheating....
Callipyge sheep exhibit extreme postnatal muscle hypertrophy in the loin and hindquarters as a result of single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) imprinted DLK1-DIO3 domain on ovine chromosome 18. The callipyge SNP up-regulates expression surrounding transcripts when inherited cis without altering their allele-specific imprinting status. phenotype exhibits polar overdominant inheritance since only paternal heterozygous animals have hypertrophy. Two studies were conducted profiling gene lamb...
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Summary The callipyge mutation causes postnatal muscle hypertrophy in heterozygous lambs that inherit a paternal allele ( +/CLPG ). Our hypothesis was the up‐regulation of one or both affected paternally expressed genes DLK1 PEG11 ) initiates changes biochemical and physiological pathways skeletal to induce hypertrophy. goal this study identify gene expression during onset are involved phenotype. Gene analysed longissimus dorsi total RNA from at 10, 20, 30 days age using Affymetrix Bovine...
The flipped classroom has the potential to improve student performance. Because flipping involves both preclass preparation and problem solving in classroom, means by which increased learning occurs whether method of delivering content matters is interest. In a partially cell biology course, students were assigned online videos before class textbook reading lectures. Low-stakes assessments used incentivize types preparation. We hypothesized that more would watch than read positively affect...
Fertilization is followed by complex changes in cytoplasmic composition and extensive chromatin reprogramming which results the abundant activation of totipotent embryonic genome at (EGA). While has been widely studied several species, only a handful reports characterize changing transcriptome profiles resulting metabolic cleavage stage embryos. The aims current study were to investigate RNA vivo developed (ivv) vitro produced (ivt) porcine embryos before (2-cell stage) after (late 4-cell...
Heterogeneity in Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is complex including variability behavioral phenotype as well clinical, physiologic, and pathologic parameters. The fifth edition of the Diagnostic Statistical Manual Mental Disorders (DSM-5) now diagnoses ASD using a 2-dimensional model based social communication deficits fixated interests repetitive behaviors. Sorting out heterogeneity crucial for study etiology, diagnosis, treatment prognosis. In this paper, we present an ensemble analyzing...
Larger dog breeds live shorter than the smaller ones, opposite of mass-lifespan relationship observed across mammalian species. Here we use data from 90 and a theoretical model based on first principles energy conservation life history tradeoffs to explain negative correlation between longevity body size in dogs. We found that birth/adult mass ratio dogs scales negatively with adult size, which is different weak interspecific scaling mammals. Using model, show this ratio, as an index...
We present a framework for an explainable and statistically validated ensemble clustering model applied to Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI). The objective of our analysis is identify patient injury severity subgroups key phenotypes that delineate these using varied clinical computed tomography data. Explainable statistically-validated models are essential because data-driven identification inherently multidisciplinary undertaking. In case, this procedure yielded six distinct with respect...
Cluster analysis has been applied to a wide range of problems as an exploratory tool enhance knowledge discovery. Clustering aids disease subtyping, i.e. identifying homogeneous patient subgroups, in medical data. Missing data is common problem research and could bias clustering results if not properly handled. Yet, multiple imputation under-utilized address missingness, when Its limited integration data, despite the known advantages benefits imputation, be attributed many factors. This...
A differentially methylated region (DMR) is a genomic that has significantly different methylation patterns between biological conditions. Identifying DMRs conditions critical for developing disease biomarkers. Although methods detecting in microarray data have been introduced, with high precision, recall, and accuracy determining the true length of remains challenge. In this study, we propose normalized kernel-weighted model to account similar profiles using relative probe distance from...
Concussions, also known as mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI), are a growing health challenge. Approximately four million concussions diagnosed annually in the United States. Concussion is heterogeneous disorder causation, symptoms, and outcome making precision medicine approaches to this important. Persistent disabling symptoms sometimes delay recovery difficult predict subset of mTBI patients. Despite abundant data, clinicians need better tools assess recovery. Data-driven decision support...
Patient distances can be calculated based on signs and symptoms derived from an ontological hierarchy. There is controversy as to whether patient distance metrics that consider the semantic similarity between concepts outperform standard are agnostic concept similarity. The choice of metric dominate performance classification or clustering algorithms. Our objective was determine if semantically augmented would machine learning tasks.We converted neurological findings 382 published neurology...
We develop a theoretical model from an energetic viewpoint for unraveling the entangled effects of metabolic and biosynthetic rates on oxidative cellular damage accumulation during animal's growth, test by experiments in hornworms. The consideration suggests that most damages caused metabolism can be repaired efficient maintenance mechanisms, if energy required repair is unlimited. However, growth considerable amount allocated to biosynthesis, which entails tradeoffs with requirements...