دراسة تسربات النفط الخام وحرق الغاز المصاحب فـي بيئة حقل الناصرية النفطي جنوب العراق by محسن عريبي الدخيلي, عيسى هديرس نعيثل

“…Moreover, it depends on following the change in concentrations of these compounds and its associated elements are used as a means to track the descent of these materials into the groundwater. The change in concentrations which were taken at different distances (0,35,70,210,420,630) meters from the "source of contamination, the concentrations of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons(PAHs) in the soil ranged between (0.003) µg/Kg at station six PS6 and (73.462) µg/Kg at station one PS1, In addition, there are another samples were taken at different depths, such as (10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60) meters along the well column ranged between(0.303) µg/Kg When depth 50 meters and(1.072) µg/Kg When the soil surface, and this was a way to find a type of comparison between the change of concentration and distance.           …”
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Clinical characteristics of a large familial cohort with Medullary thyroid cancer and germline Cys618Arg RET mutation in an Israeli multicenter study by Rachel Chava Rosenblum, Rachel Chava Rosenblum, Dania Hirsch, Dania Hirsch, Simona Grozinsky-Glasberg, Carlos Benbassat, Carlos Benbassat, Uri Yoel, Avraham Ishay, Avraham Ishay, Sagit Zolotov, Gideon Bachar, Gideon Bachar, Ehud Banne, Ehud Banne, Sigal Levy, Orit Twito, Orit Twito

“…Through genealogical study, 31 MTC patients were found descendants of one family of Jewish Moroccan descent, accounting for 27/28 patients with documented Cys618Arg mutation and 4 patients without available genetic testing. …”
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Use of >100,000 NHLBI Trans-Omics for Precision Medicine (TOPMed) Consortium whole genome sequences improves imputation quality and detection of rare variant associations in admixe... by Madeline H Kowalski, Huijun Qian, Ziyi Hou, Jonathan D Rosen, Amanda L Tapia, Yue Shan, Deepti Jain, Maria Argos, Donna K Arnett, Christy Avery, Kathleen C Barnes, Lewis C Becker, Stephanie A Bien, Joshua C Bis, John Blangero, Eric Boerwinkle, Donald W Bowden, Steve Buyske, Jianwen Cai, Michael H Cho, Seung Hoan Choi, Hélène Choquet, L Adrienne Cupples, Mary Cushman, Michelle Daya, Paul S de Vries, Patrick T Ellinor, Nauder Faraday, Myriam Fornage, Stacey Gabriel, Santhi K Ganesh, Misa Graff, Namrata Gupta, Jiang He, Susan R Heckbert, Bertha Hidalgo, Chani J Hodonsky, Marguerite R Irvin, Andrew D Johnson, Eric Jorgenson, Robert Kaplan, Sharon L R Kardia, Tanika N Kelly, Charles Kooperberg, Jessica A Lasky-Su, Ruth J F Loos, Steven A Lubitz, Rasika A Mathias, Caitlin P McHugh, Courtney Montgomery, Jee-Young Moon, Alanna C Morrison, Nicholette D Palmer, Nathan Pankratz, George J Papanicolaou, Juan M Peralta, Patricia A Peyser, Stephen S Rich, Jerome I Rotter, Edwin K Silverman, Jennifer A Smith, Nicholas L Smith, Kent D Taylor, Timothy A Thornton, Hemant K Tiwari, Russell P Tracy, Tao Wang, Scott T Weiss, Lu-Chen Weng, Kerri L Wiggins, James G Wilson, Lisa R Yanek, Sebastian Zöllner, Kari E North, Paul L Auer, NHLBI Trans-Omics for Precision Medicine (TOPMed) Consortium, TOPMed Hematology & Hemostasis Working Group, Laura M Raffield, Alexander P Reiner, Yun Li

“…Most genome-wide association and fine-mapping studies to date have been conducted in individuals of European descent, and genetic studies of populations of Hispanic/Latino and African ancestry are limited. …”
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Evaluation of Right Ventricular Function and Myocardial Microstructure in Fetal Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome by Jing Ma, Yaping Yuan, Li Zhang, Shizhen Chen, Haiyan Cao, Liu Hong, Juanjuan Liu, Xiaoyan Song, Jiawei Shi, Yi Zhang, Li Cui, Xin Zhou, Mingxing Xie

“…. −11.16 ± 29.86, <i>p</i> < 0.001) had HA gradient ascent but HA gradient descent in the anteroseptal wall (<i>p</i> < 0.001) and inferoseptal wall (<i>p</i> < 0.001). …”
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Novel highly-multiplexed AmpliSeq targeted assay for Plasmodium vivax genetic surveillance use cases at multiple geographical scales by Johanna Helena Kattenberg, Hong Van Nguyen, Hieu Luong Nguyen, Erin Sauve, Ngoc Thi Hong Nguyen, Ana Chopo-Pizarro, Hidayat Trimarsanto, Pieter Monsieurs, Pieter Guetens, Xa Xuan Nguyen, Marjan Van Esbroeck, Sarah Auburn, Sarah Auburn, Sarah Auburn, Binh Thi Huong Nguyen, Anna Rosanas-Urgell

“…The capacity of the assay for high resolution identity-by-descent (IBD) analysis was demonstrated and identified a high rate of shared ancestry within Gia Lai Province in the Central Highlands of Vietnam, as well as between the coastal province of Binh Thuan and Lam Dong. …”
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Assessing Mongolian gerbil emotional behavior: effects of two shock intensities and response-independent shocks during an extended inhibitory-avoidance task by Camilo Hurtado-Parrado, Camilo González-León, Mónica A. Arias-Higuera, Angelo Cardona, Lucia G. Medina, Laura García-Muñoz, Christian Sánchez, Julián Cifuentes, Juan Carlos Forigua, Andrea Ortiz, Cesar A. Acevedo-Triana, Javier L. Rico

“…The observed patterning of freezing, platform descents, and exploratory responses produced by the change from random to periodic shocks may relate to the active defensive system of the gerbil. …”
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QTL Mapping for Resistance to Cankers Induced by <i>Pseudomonas syringae</i> pv. <i>actinidiae</i> (Psa) in a Tetraploid <i>Actinidia chinensis</i> Kiwifruit Population by Jibran Tahir, Cyril Brendolise, Stephen Hoyte, Marielle Lucas, Susan Thomson, Kirsten Hoeata, Catherine McKenzie, Andrew Wotton, Keith Funnell, Ed Morgan, Duncan Hedderley, David Chagné, Peter M. Bourke, John McCallum, Susan E. Gardiner, Luis Gea

“…Our approach to QTL mapping is based on the use of identity-by-descent trait mapping, which allowed us to relate the contribution of specific alleles from their respective homologues in the male and female parent, to the control of Psa resistance in the progeny. …”
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An independent assessment of the technical feasibility of the Mars One mission plan – Updated analysis by Do, Sydney, Owens, Andrew Charles, Ho, Koki, Schreiner, Samuel Steven, de Weck, Olivier L.

“…This conclusion is obtained from analyses based on mission assumptions derived from and constrained by statements made by Mars One, and is the result of the following findings: (1) several technologies including ISRU, life support, and entry, descent, and landing (EDL) are not currently “existing, validated and available” as claimed by Mars One; (2) the crop growth area described by Mars One is insufficient to feed their crew; (3) increasing the crop growth area to provide sufficient food for the crew leads to atmospheric imbalances that requires a prohibitively large ISRU atmospheric processor or a notably different system architecture to manage; and (4) at least 13 Falcon Heavy launches are needed to deliver a portion of the required equipment to the Martian surface, a value that is at least double that planned by Mars One for the same mission phase. …”
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Algorithms and Algorithmic Barriers in High-Dimensional Statistics and Random Combinatorial Structures by Kizildag, Eren C.

“…Consequently, we show that the gradient descent algorithm, when initialized below 𝐸0, nearly recovers the planted weights in polynomial-time. …”
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Advances in Computer-Assisted Design and Analysis of First-Order Optimization Methods and Related Problems by Das Gupta, Shuvomoy

“…Additionally, we provide simple adversarial examples on which these methods do not perform better than gradient descent with exact line search, leaving very little room for improvements on the same class of problems. …”
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Distributed resource allocation algorithm design and its application to economic dispatch in smart grids by Bai, Lu

“…The algorithms developed mainly have their basis on consensus algorithms in multi-agent systems and gradient descent methods in optimization theory. This thesis starts with the static RA problem where the optimal solution is fixed. …”
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Fine-mapping type 2 diabetes loci to single-variant resolution using high-density imputation and islet-specific epigenome maps by Mahajan, Anubha, Taliun, Daniel, Thurner, Matthias, Robertson, Neil R., Torres, Jason M., Rayner, N. William, Payne, Anthony J., Steinthorsdottir, Valgerdur, Scott, Robert A., Grarup, Niels, Cook, James P., Schmidt, Ellen M., Wuttke, Matthias, Sarnowski, Chloé, Mägi, Reedik, Nano, Jana, Gieger, Christian, Trompet, Stella, Lecoeur, Cécile, Preuss, Michael H., Prins, Bram Peter, Guo, Xiuqing, Bielak, Lawrence F., Below, Jennifer E., Bowden, Donald W., Chambers, John Campbell, Kim, Young Jin, Ng, Maggie Chor Yin, Petty, Lauren E., Sim, Xueling, Zhang, Weihua, Bennett, Amanda J., Bork-Jensen, Jette, Brummett, Chad M., Canouil, Mickaël, Ec Kardt, Kai-Uwe, Fischer, Krista, Kardia, Sharon L. R., Kronenberg, Florian, Läll, Kristi, Liu, Ching-Ti, Locke, Adam E., Luan, Jian'an, Ntalla, Ioanna, Nylander, Vibe, Schönherr, Sebastian, Schurmann, Claudia, Yengo, Loïc, Bottinger, Erwin P., Brandslund, Ivan, Christensen, Cramer, Dedoussis, George, Florez, Jose C., Ford, Ian, Franco, Oscar H., Frayling, Timothy M., Giedraitis, Vilmantas, Hackinger, Sophie, Hattersley, Andrew T., Herder, Christian, Ikram, M. Arfan, Ingelsson, Martin, Jørgensen, Marit E., Jørgensen, Torben, Kriebel, Jennifer, Kuusisto, Johanna, Ligthart, Symen, Lindgren, Cecilia M., Linneberg, Allan, Lyssenko, Valeriya, Mamakou, Vasiliki, Meitinger, Thomas, Mohlke, Karen L., Morris, Andrew D., Nadkarni, Girish, Pankow, James S., Peters, Annette, Sattar, Naveed, Stančáková, Alena, Strauch, Konstantin, Taylor, Kent D., Thorand, Barbara, Thorleifsson, Gudmar, Thorsteinsdottir, Unnur, Tuomilehto, Jaakko, Witte, Daniel R., Dupuis, Josée, Peyser, Patricia A., Zeggini, Eleftheria, Loos, Ruth J. F., Froguel, Philippe, Ingelsson, Erik, Lind, Lars, Groop, Leif, Laakso, Markku, Collins, Francis S., Jukema, J. Wouter, Palmer, Colin N. A., Grallert, Harald, Metspalu, Andres, Dehghan, Abbas, Köttgen, Anna, Abecasis, Goncalo R., Meigs, James B., Rotter, Jerome I., Marchini, Jonathan, Pedersen, Oluf, Hansen, Torben, Langenberg, Claudia, Wareham, Nicholas J., Stefansson, Kari, Gloyn, Anna L., Morris, Andrew P., Boehnke, Michael, McCarthy, Mark I.

“…We expanded GWAS discovery for type 2 diabetes (T2D) by combining data from 898,130 European-descent individuals (9% cases), after imputation to high-density reference panels. …”
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Stacked Intelligent Metasurfaces for efficient holographic MIMO communications in 6G by An, Jiancheng, Xu, Chao, Ng, Derrick Wing Kwan, Alexandropoulos, George C., Huang, Chongwen, Yuen, Chau, Hanzo, Lajos

“…We then design a gradient descent algorithm to solve the resultant non-convex problem. …”
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Distance learning between image and class for object recognition by Wang, Zhengxiang

“…These multiple Per-Class metrics are learned simultaneously by forming a convex optimization problem and solved by an efficient subgradient descent method. For efficiency and scalability to large-scale problems, we also show how to simplify the method to learn a diagonal matrix for each class. …”
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Distance metric learning for multi-modal image retrieval and annotation by Wu, Pengcheng

“…To overcome the challenging optimization task of UDML, we develop an efficient stochastic gradient descent algorithm for solving the optimization task and prove the convergence of the proposed algorithm. …”
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Distributed multi-agent consensus under constraints by Qiu, Zhirong

“…To achieve the constrained optimum, we combine three different terms into the control protocol: local averaging, local projection, and local subgradient descent with a decaying gain α(t). Under a balanced network with uniformly joint spanning trees, we employ non-smooth analysis to show that the convergence to the constrained optimum set can be guaranteed if α(t) is non-integrable. …”
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Anomaly detection using intelligent analytics by Chen, Zhaomin

“…In order to optimize the SGL regularized learning objective, the author combines Adagrad optimization algorithm with Proximal Gradient Descent (Ada-PGD). Furthermore, Evolutionary Multi-Objective (EMO) based optimization framework is proposed here to determine the optimal penalty factors of SGL for each autoencoder. …”
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Rare and low-frequency variants and predisposition to complex disease by Albers, P

“…</p> <p>Second, rare variants are likely to have originated recently through mutation and thereby sit on relatively long haplotype regions identical by descent (IBD). I developed a method that exploits rare variants as identifiers for shared haplotype segments around which the breakpoints of recombination are detected using non-probabilistic approaches. …”

Comparison of 6q25 breast cancer hits from Asian and European Genome Wide Association Studies in the Breast Cancer Association Consortium (BCAC) by Hein, R, Maranian, M, Hopper, J, Kapuscinski, M, Southey, M, Park, D, Schmidt, M, Broeks, A, Hogervorst, F, Bueno-De-Mesquita, H, Bueno-De-Mesquit, H, Muir, K, Lophatananon, A, Rattanamongkongul, S, Puttawibul, P, Fasching, P, Hein, A, Ekici, AB, Beckmann, M, Fletcher, O, Johnson, N, Dos Santos Silva, I, Peto, J, Sawyer, E, Tomlinson, I, Kerin, M, Miller, N, Marmee, F, Schneeweiss, A, Sohn, C, Burwinkel, B, Guénel, P, Cordina-Duverger, E, Menegaux, F, Truong, T, Bojesen, SE, Nordestgaard, BG, Flyger, H, Milne, R, Perez, J, Zamora, M, Benítez, J, Anton-Culver, H, Ziogas, A, Bernstein, L, Clarke, C, Brenner, H, Müller, H, Arndt, V, Stegmaier, C, Rahman, N, Seal, S, Turnbull, C, Renwick, A, Meindl, A, Schott, S, Bartram, C, Schmutzler, R, Brauch, H, Hamann, U, Ko, Y, Wang-Gohrke, S, Dörk, T, Schürmann, P, Karstens, J, Hillemanns, P, Nevanlinna, H, Heikkinen, T, Aittomäki, K, Blomqvist, C, Bogdanova, N, Zalutsky, I, Antonenkova, N, Bermisheva, M, Prokovieva, D, Farahtdinova, A, Khusnutdinova, E, Lindblom, A, Margolin, S, Mannermaa, A, Kataja, V, Kosma, V, Hartikainen, J, Chen, X, Beesley, J, Lambrechts, D, Zhao, H, Neven, P, Wildiers, H, Nickels, S, Flesch-Janys, D, Radice, P, Peterlongo, P, Manoukian, S, Barile, M, Couch, F, Olson, J, Wang, X, Fredericksen, Z, Giles, G, Baglietto, L, McLean, C, Severi, G, Offit, K, Robson, M, Gaudet, M, Vijai, J, Alnæs, G, Kristensen, V, Børresen-Dale, A, John, E, Miron, A, Winqvist, R, Pylkäs, K, Jukkola-Vuorinen, A, Grip, M, Andrulis, I, Knight, J, Glendon, G, Mulligan, A, Figueroa, J, García-Closas, M, Lissowska, J, Sherman, M, Hooning, M, Martens, J, Seynaeve, C, Collée, M, Hall, P, Humpreys, K, Czene, K, Liu, J, Cox, A, Brock, I, Cross, S, Reed, M, Ahmed, S, Ghoussaini, M, Pharoah, P, Kang, D, Yoo, K, Noh, D, Jakubowska, A, Jaworska, K, Durda, K, Złowocka, E, Sangrajrang, S, Gaborieau, V, Brennan, P, McKay, J, Shen, C, Yu, J, Hsu, H, Hou, M, Orr, N, Schoemaker, M, Ashworth, A, Swerdlow, A, Trentham-Dietz, A, Newcomb, P, Titus, L, Egan, K, Chenevix-Trench, G, Antoniou, A, Humphreys, M, Morrison, J, Chang-Claude, J, Easton, D, Dunning, A

“…We examined the associations of both SNPs in up to 61,689 cases and 58,822 controls from forty-four studies collaborating in the Breast Cancer Association Consortium, of which four studies were of Asian and 39 of European descent. Logistic regression was used to estimate odds ratios (OR) and 95% confidence intervals (CI). …”

Novel common genetic susceptibility loci for colorectal cancer by Schmit, SL, Edlund, CK, Schumacher, FR, Gong, J, Harrison, TA, Huyghe, JR, Qu, C, Melas, M, Van Den Berg, DJ, Wang, H, Tring, S, Plummer, SJ, Albanes, D, Alonso, MH, Amos, CI, Anton, K, Aragaki, AK, Arndt, V, Barry, EL, Berndt, SI, Bezieau, S, Bien, S, Bloomer, A, Boehm, J, Boutron-Ruault, M-C, Brenner, H, Brezina, S, Buchanan, DD, Butterbach, K, Caan, BJ, Campbell, PT, Carlson, CS, Castelao, JE, Chan, AT, Chang-Claude, J, Chanock, SJ, Cheng, I, Cheng, Y-W, Chin, LS, Church, JM, Church, T, Coetzee, GA, Cotterchio, M, Correa, M, Curtis, KR, Duggan, D, Easton, DF, English, D, Feskens, EJM, Fischer, R, Fitzgerald, LM, Fortini, BK, Fritsche, LG, Fuchs, CS, Gago-Dominguez, M, Gala, M, Gallinger, SJ, Gauderman, WJ, Giles, GG, Giovannucci, EL, Gogarten, SM, Gonzalez-Villalpando, C, Gonzalez-Villalpando, EM, Grady, WM, Greenson, JK, Gsur, A, Gunter, M, Haiman, CA, Hampe, J, Harlid, S, Harju, JF, Hayes, RB, Hofer, P, Hoffmeister, M, Hopper, JL, Huang, S-C, Huerta, JM, Hudson, TJ, Hunter, DJ, Idos, GE, Iwasaki, M, Jackson, RD, Jacobs, EJ, Jee, SH, Jenkins, MA, Jia, W-H, Jiao, S, Joshi, AD, Kolonel, LN, Kono, S, Kooperberg, C, Krogh, V, Kuehn, T, Küry, S, Lacroix, A, Laurie, CA, Lejbkowicz, F, Lemire, M, Lenz, H-J, Levine, D, Li, CI, Li, L, Lieb, W, Lin, Y, Lindor, NM, Liu, Y-R, Loupakis, F, Lu, Y, Luh, F, Ma, J, Mancao, C, Manion, FJ, Markowitz, SD, Martin, V, Matsuda, K, Matsuo, K, McDonnell, KJ, McNeil, CE, Milne, R, Molina, AJ, Mukherjee, B, Murphy, N, Newcomb, PA, Offit, K, Omichessan, H, Palli, D, Cotoré, JPP, Pérez-Mayoral, J, Pharoah, PD, Potter, JD, Qu, C, Raskin, L, Rennert, G, Rennert, HS, Riggs, BM, Schafmayer, C, Schoen, RE, Sellers, TA, Seminara, D, Severi, G, Shi, W, Shibata, D, Shu, X-O, Siegel, EM, Slattery, ML, Southey, M, Stadler, ZK, Stern, MC, Stintzing, S, Taverna, D, Thibodeau, SN, Thomas, DC, Trichopoulou, A, Tsugane, S, Ulrich, CM, Van Duijnhoven, FJB, Van Guelpan, B, Vijai, J, Virtamo, J, Weinstein, SJ, White, E, Win, AK, Wolk, A, Woods, M, Wu, AH, Wu, K, Xiang, Y-B, Yen, Y, Zanke, BW, Zeng, Y-X, Zhang, B, Zubair, N, Kweon, S-S, Figueiredo, JC, Zheng, W, Marchand, LL, Lindblom, A, Moreno, V, Peters, U, Casey, G, Hsu, L, Conti, DV, Gruber, SB

“…<br/><strong>Methods: </strong>We conducted a GWAS in European descent CRC cases and control subjects using a discovery–replication design, followed by examination of novel findings in a multiethnic sample (cumulative n = 163 315). …”