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Fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) with fluorescent proteins is a powerful method for detection of protein-protein interactions, enzyme activities and small molecules in the intracellular milieu. Aided by a new violet-excitable yellow-fluorescing variant of Aequorea victoria GFP, we developed dual FRET–based caspase-3 biosensors. Owing to their distinct excitation profiles, each FRET...

Cis400/401 Final Project Report

The rise of ‘big data’ and large-scale machine learning has created an increasing need for distributed optimization.dual descent and the alternating Most of the current literature has focused on coordinate descent, a prominent distributed optimization technique, due to its simplicity and effectiveness. We focus on implementing two other optimization techniques distributed dual descent and the a...

MMI 401: American Health Care Systems

Understanding Trading Behavior in 401(k) Plans

We use a new database covering 1.2 million active participants to study trading activities in 1,530 defined contribution retirement plans. Descriptive statistics and regression analysis indicate some interesting trading patterns. First, we show that trading activity in 401(k) accounts is very limited: only 20% of participants ever reshuffled their portfolios in two years. Second, demographic ch...

Matching Matters in 401(k) Plan Participation

This study offers new evidence on the effects of the matching contributions made by employers to 401(k) plan accounts on plan participation rates, exploiting microdata from the National Compensation Survey, a large, nationally representative, establishment dataset. It addresses the potential endogeneity of the matching contributions by employing coworker and labor market characteristics as inst...