Shlomo Stern Z.L.(February 10th, 1928 – October 27th, 2013)

2013 Curt Stern Award Address1

Thank you, Haig, for the poignant introduction and kind words. I would also like to thank Jeff Murray, The American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG), the members of the Awards Committee, and especially Christopher Pearson. I first learned that I was the recipient of the 2013 Curt Stern Award from Christopher when I was on vacation with my family in San Francisco. I was pleasantly surprised and,...

Analyzing Jaffa Protest Form, Intention and Violence, October 27th 1933

Saturday , October 12 , 2013

Intro: LIVER RESECTION AND transplantation are the only curative treatment options currently available for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC).However, longtermsurvival is still poor as a result of a high rate of recurrence among other drawbacks, such as lack of reliable prognostic factors, phenotypic diversity of the disease, and the lack of effective systemic treatment.Among many outcome predictio...

Lecture 15 — October 24 , 2013

The Haar wavelet transform is easier to describe than the orthonormal basis itself. An image is broken up into 2N−1× 2N−1 blocks of 2× 2 pixels. Let’s focus on a single block at index (i, j), and label its pixels p1, p2, p3, p4. Now consider another 2 N × 2N grid divided into four quadrants. The (i, j) entry of the upper-left quadrant will take the value 1 4(p1 + p2 + p3 + p4), and the (i, j)-e...

Package ‘ DAAG ’ October 28 , 2013

Description various data sets used in examples and exercises in the