Microarray expression analyses following miRNA transfection/inhibition and, more recently, Argonaute cross-linked immunoprecipitation (CLIP)-seq assays have been used to detect miRNA target sites. CLIP and expression approaches measure differing stages of miRNA functioning-initial binding of the miRNP complex and subsequent message repression. We use nonparametric predictive models to character...

Altitudinal migrations are common in all major vertebrate and some invertebrate lineages. Such migrations have important implications for the basic and applied ecology of animals making these movements. The idea that bats make altitudinal migrations has been suggested for nearly a century. However, studies documenting the existence and causes of altitudinal bat migrations are scarce, and are fr...

Social media platforms offer a rich repository of crowdsourced information that has the potential to monitor human rights violations. The challenge is quantify, interpret, and situate such unstructured data streams in broader context, which remains under-investigated existing CSCW research. Addressing these challenges demands computational solutions extract large volumes conjunction with interv...