The Cystic Fibrosis Transmembrane Conductance Regulator (CFTR) gene was identified in 1989 by geneticist Lap-Chee Tsui and his research team as the gene associated with cystic fibrosis [4] (CF). Tsui?s research pinpointed the gene, some mutations to which cause CF, and it revealed the underlying disease mechanism. The CFTR gene encodes a protein in cell membranes in epithelial tissues and affec...

According to the U.S. Census, Asian Americans are the most quickly increasing population in the United States (U.S. Census Bureau, 2011). It is expected that Asian Americans will grow from 5.14 percent of the total U.S. population in 2012 to 7.8 percent in 2050 (U.S. Census Bureau, n.d.). Also, Asian Americans are known to be the ethnic group with the highest income and best education in the Un...

to external low-noise reference clocks Jiangjun Zheng, Ying Li, Noam Goldberg, Mickey McDonald, Xingsheng Luan, Archita Hati, Ming Lu, Stefan Strauf, Tanya Zelevinsky, David A. Howe, and Chee Wei Wong Optical Nanostructures Laboratory, Columbia University, New York, New York 10027, USA Department of Physics, Columbia University, New York, New York 100027-5255, USA National Institute of Standard...

Xiaolong Hu,1,2,3,4,* Tian Zhong,2 Franco N. C. Wong,2 Xiang Mao,1 Prashanta Kharel,1 Zhenda Xie,5 Xinan Xu,5 Chee Wei Wong,5 and Dirk R. Englund2 1Department of Electrical Engineering, Columbia University, New York, New York 10027, USA 2Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA 3School of Precision Instrument and Opto-electro...

The sizes of optimal constant-composition codes of weight three have been determined by Chee, Ge and Ling with four cases in doubt. Group divisible codes played an important role in their constructions. In this paper, we study the problem of constructing optimal quaternary constant-composition codes with Hamming weight four and minimum distances five or six through group divisible codes and Roo...

By Chee Sing Lee, Sharad Nagappa, Narcis Palomeras, Daniel E. Clark, and Joaquim Salvi An Underwater Vehicle Application T he random finite-set formulation for multiobject estimation provides a means of estimating the number of objects in cluttered environments with missed detections within a unified probabilistic framework. This methodology is now becoming the dominant mathematical framework w...

The technical and clinical success rates of endovascular The Primary Patency and Fracture Rates of SelfExpandable Nitinol Stents Placed in the Popliteal Arteries, Especially in the P2 and P3 Segments, in Korean Patients Il Soo Chang, MD, Hyun Keun Chee, MD, Sang Woo Park, MD, Ik Jin Yun, MD, Jae Joon Hwang, MD, Song Am Lee, MD, Jun Seok Kim, MD, Seong-Hwan Chang, MD, Hong Geun Jung, MD Departme...

To my family iii Acknowledgments Firstly I wish to express my gratitude to my advisor, Professor Chee Yap. Without his encouragement, support, guidance and the occasional prodding, none of this would have been possible. In addition, I would like to acknowledge with gratitude Professor Stéphane Mallat for his invaluable advice and help in all matters involving wavelets. I would also like to than...

The Cystic Fibrosis Transmembrane Conductance Regulator (CFTR) gene was identified in 1989 by geneticist Lap-Chee Tsui and his research team as the gene associated with cystic fibrosis [4] (CF). Tsui?s research pinpointed the gene, some mutations to which cause CF, and it revealed the underlying disease mechanism. The CFTR gene encodes a protein in cell membranes in epithelial tissues and affec...

The Cystic Fibrosis Transmembrane Conductance Regulator (CFTR) gene was identified in 1989 by geneticist Lap-Chee Tsui and his research team as the gene associated with cystic fibrosis [4] (CF). Tsui?s research pinpointed the gene, some mutations to which cause CF, and it revealed the underlying disease mechanism. The CFTR gene encodes a protein in cell membranes in epithelial tissues and affec...