Metallic nanostructures can support the strongly confined interface waves:surface plasmon polaritons(SPPs).SPPs have recently been used in a variety of applications due to their abilities to guide light in the scale o...Metallic nanostructures can support the strongly confined interface waves:surface plasmon polaritons(SPPs).SPPs have recently been used in a variety of applications due to their abilities to guide light in the scale of na-nometer.Whereas,intrinsic weak optical nonlinearities and short propagation lengths of SPPs hinder their applica-tions in novel active plasmonic devices.One promising solution is to couple SPPs to nonlinear optical resonances,such as excitons(Xs)in molecular or semiconducting nanostructures.Consequently,hybrid nanostructures containing J-aggregate molecules and metallic nanostructures have attracted considerable interest.In these systems,vacuum field fluctuations lead to a coherent ex-change of energy between ensembles of excitons and plasmons and the formation of new hybrid polariton states.Strong coupling between Xs and SPPs enables an efficient transfer of the strong optical nonlinearities of the excitonic emitters to the passive plasmonic nanostructures on the ultrashort time scale of femtosecond.展开更多
In the interdisciplinary realm of statistics,genetics,and epidemiology,longitudinal sibling pair data offers a unique perspective for investigating complex diseases and traits,allowing the exploration of the dynamic p...In the interdisciplinary realm of statistics,genetics,and epidemiology,longitudinal sibling pair data offers a unique perspective for investigating complex diseases and traits,allowing the exploration of the dynamic processes of gene expression over time by controlling numerous confounding factors.Missing-not-at-random(MNAR)data are commonly used in such types of studies,but no statistical methods specifically tailored have been developed to handle MNAR data in complex longitudinal data in the literature.Here,we propose a new statistical method by jointly modeling longitudinal data from sib-pairs and MNAR data.Extensive simulations demonstrate the excellent finite sample properties of the proposed method.展开更多
Mendelian randomization(MR)is widely used in causal mediation analysis to control unmeasured confounding effects,which is valid under some strong assumptions.It is thus of great interest to assess the impact of violat...Mendelian randomization(MR)is widely used in causal mediation analysis to control unmeasured confounding effects,which is valid under some strong assumptions.It is thus of great interest to assess the impact of violations of these MR assumptions through sensitivity analysis.Sensitivity analyses have been conducted for simple MR-based causal average effect analyses,but they are not available for MR-based mediation analysis studies,and we aim to fill this gap in this paper.We propose to use two sensitivity parameters to quantify the effect due to the deviation of the IV assumptions.With these two sensitivity parameters,we derive consistent indirect causal effect estimators and establish their asymptotic propersties.Our theoretical results can be used in MR-based mediation analysis to study the impact of violations of MR as-sumptions.The finite sample performance of the proposed method is illustrated through simulation studies,sensitivity ana-lysis,and application to a real genome-wide association study.展开更多
文摘Metallic nanostructures can support the strongly confined interface waves:surface plasmon polaritons(SPPs).SPPs have recently been used in a variety of applications due to their abilities to guide light in the scale of na-nometer.Whereas,intrinsic weak optical nonlinearities and short propagation lengths of SPPs hinder their applica-tions in novel active plasmonic devices.One promising solution is to couple SPPs to nonlinear optical resonances,such as excitons(Xs)in molecular or semiconducting nanostructures.Consequently,hybrid nanostructures containing J-aggregate molecules and metallic nanostructures have attracted considerable interest.In these systems,vacuum field fluctuations lead to a coherent ex-change of energy between ensembles of excitons and plasmons and the formation of new hybrid polariton states.Strong coupling between Xs and SPPs enables an efficient transfer of the strong optical nonlinearities of the excitonic emitters to the passive plasmonic nanostructures on the ultrashort time scale of femtosecond.
基金This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(12171451).
文摘In the interdisciplinary realm of statistics,genetics,and epidemiology,longitudinal sibling pair data offers a unique perspective for investigating complex diseases and traits,allowing the exploration of the dynamic processes of gene expression over time by controlling numerous confounding factors.Missing-not-at-random(MNAR)data are commonly used in such types of studies,but no statistical methods specifically tailored have been developed to handle MNAR data in complex longitudinal data in the literature.Here,we propose a new statistical method by jointly modeling longitudinal data from sib-pairs and MNAR data.Extensive simulations demonstrate the excellent finite sample properties of the proposed method.
基金This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(12171451,72091212).
文摘Mendelian randomization(MR)is widely used in causal mediation analysis to control unmeasured confounding effects,which is valid under some strong assumptions.It is thus of great interest to assess the impact of violations of these MR assumptions through sensitivity analysis.Sensitivity analyses have been conducted for simple MR-based causal average effect analyses,but they are not available for MR-based mediation analysis studies,and we aim to fill this gap in this paper.We propose to use two sensitivity parameters to quantify the effect due to the deviation of the IV assumptions.With these two sensitivity parameters,we derive consistent indirect causal effect estimators and establish their asymptotic propersties.Our theoretical results can be used in MR-based mediation analysis to study the impact of violations of MR as-sumptions.The finite sample performance of the proposed method is illustrated through simulation studies,sensitivity ana-lysis,and application to a real genome-wide association study.
