Comparison of different methods for monitoring glacier changes observed by Landsat images (open access)

Comparison of different methods for monitoring glacier changes observed by Landsat images

This paper presents three methods for classifying glacier boundaries, compares the three methods to provide advice on how to choose an appropriate method, and analyzes the relationship between glacier change and the trends of precipitation and temperature.
Date: March 18, 2014
Creator: Man, Qixia; Guo, Huadong; Liu, Guang & Dong, Pinliang
System: The UNT Digital Library
Testing rare variants for hypertension using family-based tests with different weighting schemes (open access)

Testing rare variants for hypertension using family-based tests with different weighting schemes

This paper proposes 4 weighting schemes for the family-based rare variants test (FBAT-v) to test for the effects of both rare and common variants across the genome.
Date: October 18, 2016
Creator: Wang, Xuexia; Zhao, Xingwang & Zhou, Jin
System: The UNT Digital Library
A novel statistical method for rare-variant association studies in general pedigrees (open access)

A novel statistical method for rare-variant association studies in general pedigrees

In this paper, the authors discuss a novel statistical method for rare-variant association studies in general pedigrees for quantitative traits. This method uses a retrospective view that treats the traits as fixed and the genotypes as random, which accounts for complex and undefined ascertainment of families.
Date: October 18, 2016
Creator: Zhu, Huanhuan; Wang, Zhenchuan; Wang, Xuexia & Sha, Qiuying
System: The UNT Digital Library
An assessment of MODIS Collection 5 global land cover product for biological conservation studies (open access)

An assessment of MODIS Collection 5 global land cover product for biological conservation studies

This paper identifies the uncertain areas and figures out the problematic land cover types in the MODIS Collection 5 global land cover dataset without ground validation samples.
Date: June 18, 2010
Creator: Liang, Lu & Gong, Peng
System: The UNT Digital Library