Background Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) arises from complex interactions among diet, host and gut microbiome. Although diet influences intestinal inflammation, the microbial and metabolic pathways ...

Background The relationship of social determinants of health (SDOH), environmental exposures and medical history to lung function trajectories is underexplored. A better understanding of these ...

Function secret sharing (FSS) is a secret sharing technique for functions in a specific function class, mainly including distributed point function (DPF) and distributed comparison function (DCF). As ...

Introduction: We present Quantum Adaptive Search (QAGS), a hybrid quantum-classical algorithm for global optimization of multivariate functions. The method employs an adaptive mechanism that ...

The transfer function module has a number of transfer function classes for multivariate transfer functions (a base MultiVariateTransferFunction and a PlanckTransferFunction). They build OK, but it ...

Mediation effects of multiple mediators are determined by two associations: one between an exposure and mediators (S-M) and the other between the mediators and an outcome conditional on the exposure ...