Search Results - "McKay, Matthew R"

Preliminary Identification of Potential Vaccine Targets for the COVID-19 Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) Based on SARS-CoV Immunological Studies by Ahmed, Syed Faraz, Quadeer, Ahmed A, McKay, Matthew R

“…The beginning of 2020 has seen the emergence of COVID-19 outbreak caused by a novel coronavirus, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)…”
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On the Design of Artificial-Noise-Aided Secure Multi-Antenna Transmission in Slow Fading Channels by Xi Zhang, Xiangyun Zhou, McKay, M. R.

“…In this paper, we investigate the design of artificial-noise-aided secure multi-antenna transmission in slow fading channels. The primary design concerns…”
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Channel Estimation for Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface Aided MISO Communications: From LMMSE to Deep Learning Solutions by Kundu, Neel Kanth, McKay, Matthew R.

“…We consider multi-antenna wireless systems aided by reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS). RIS presents a new physical layer technology for improving…”
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Direct-acting antiviral resistance of Hepatitis C virus is promoted by epistasis by Zhang, Hang, Quadeer, Ahmed Abdul, McKay, Matthew R.

“…Direct-acting antiviral agents (DAAs) provide efficacious therapeutic treatments for chronic Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection. However, emergence of drug…”
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SARS-CoV-2 T Cell Responses Elicited by COVID-19 Vaccines or Infection Are Expected to Remain Robust against Omicron by Ahmed, Syed Faraz, Quadeer, Ahmed Abdul, McKay, Matthew R

“…Omicron, the most recent SARS-CoV-2 variant of concern (VOC), harbours multiple mutations in the spike protein that were not observed in previous VOCs. Initial…”
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A Robust Statistics Approach to Minimum Variance Portfolio Optimization by Liusha Yang, Couillet, Romain, McKay, Matthew R.

“…We study the design of portfolios under a minimum risk criterion. The performance of the optimized portfolio relies on the accuracy of the estimated covariance…”
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Vaccinia-Virus-Based Vaccines Are Expected to Elicit Highly Cross-Reactive Immunity to the 2022 Monkeypox Virus by Ahmed, Syed Faraz, Sohail, Muhammad Saqib, Quadeer, Ahmed Abdul, McKay, Matthew R

“…Beginning in May 2022, a novel cluster of monkeypox virus infections was detected in humans. This virus has spread rapidly to non-endemic countries, sparking…”
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Rethinking the Secrecy Outage Formulation: A Secure Transmission Design Perspective by Xiangyun Zhou, McKay, M R, Maham, B, Hjørungnes, A

“…This letter studies information-theoretic security without knowing the eavesdropper's channel fading state. We present an alternative secrecy outage…”
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Deconvolving mutational patterns of poliovirus outbreaks reveals its intrinsic fitness landscape by Quadeer, Ahmed A., Barton, John P., Chakraborty, Arup K., McKay, Matthew R.

“…Vaccination has essentially eradicated poliovirus. Yet, its mutation rate is higher than that of viruses like HIV, for which no effective vaccine exists. To…”
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Landscape of epitopes targeted by T cells in 852 individuals recovered from COVID-19: Meta-analysis, immunoprevalence, and web platform by Quadeer, Ahmed Abdul, Ahmed, Syed Faraz, McKay, Matthew R.

“…Knowledge of the epitopes of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) targeted by T cells in recovered (convalescent) individuals is…”
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Seasonal antigenic prediction of influenza A H3N2 using machine learning by Shah, Syed Awais W., Palomar, Daniel P., Barr, Ian, Poon, Leo L. M., Quadeer, Ahmed Abdul, McKay, Matthew R.

“…Antigenic characterization of circulating influenza A virus (IAV) isolates is routinely assessed by using the hemagglutination inhibition (HI) assays for…”
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Co-evolution networks of HIV/HCV are modular with direct association to structure and function by Quadeer, Ahmed Abdul, Morales-Jimenez, David, McKay, Matthew R

“…Mutational correlation patterns found in population-level sequence data for the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and the Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) have been…”
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Identifying immunologically-vulnerable regions of the HCV E2 glycoprotein and broadly neutralizing antibodies that target them by Quadeer, Ahmed A., Louie, Raymond H. Y., McKay, Matthew R.

“…Isolation of broadly neutralizing human monoclonal antibodies (HmAbs) targeting the E2 glycoprotein of Hepatitis C virus (HCV) has sparked hope for effective…”
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Cross-Reactivity Assessment of Vaccine-Derived SARS-CoV-2 T Cell Responses against BA.2.86 and JN.1 by Sohail, Muhammad Saqib, Ahmed, Syed Faraz, Quadeer, Ahmed Abdul, McKay, Matthew R

“…The SARS-CoV-2 Omicron sub-variants BA.2.86 and JN.1 contain multiple mutations in the spike protein that were not present in previous variants of concern and…”
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Within-host genetic diversity of SARS-CoV-2 lineages in unvaccinated and vaccinated individuals by Gu, Haogao, Quadeer, Ahmed Abdul, Krishnan, Pavithra, Ng, Daisy Y. M., Chang, Lydia D. J., Liu, Gigi Y. Z., Cheng, Samuel M. S., Lam, Tommy T. Y., Peiris, Malik, McKay, Matthew R., Poon, Leo L. M.

“…Viral and host factors can shape SARS-CoV-2 evolution. However, little is known about lineage-specific and vaccination-specific mutations that occur within…”
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Statistical Eigenmode Transmission Over Jointly Correlated MIMO Channels by Xiqi Gao, Bin Jiang, Xiao Li, Gershman, A.B., McKay, M.R.

“…We investigate multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) eigenmode transmission using statistical channel state information at the transmitter. We consider a…”
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Cross-serotypically conserved epitope recommendations for a universal T cell-based dengue vaccine by Ahmed, Syed Faraz, Quadeer, Ahmed A, Barton, John P, McKay, Matthew R

“…Dengue virus (DENV)-associated disease is a growing threat to public health across the globe. Co-circulating as four different serotypes, DENV poses a unique…”
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Performance Analysis of MIMO-MRC in Double-Correlated Rayleigh Environments by McKay, M.R., Grant, A.J., Collings, I.B.

“…We consider multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) transmit beamforming systems with maximum ratio combining (MRC) receivers. The operating environment is…”
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Achievable Sum Rate of MIMO MMSE Receivers: A General Analytic Framework by McKay, M.R., Collings, I.B., Tulino, A.M.

“…This paper investigates the achievable sum rate of multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) wireless systems employing linear minimum mean-squared error (MMSE)…”
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Open-Loop Spatial Multiplexing and Diversity Communications in Ad Hoc Networks by Louie, R H Y, McKay, M R, Collings, I B

“…This paper investigates the performance of open-loop multi-antenna point-to-point links in ad hoc networks with slotted ALOHA medium access control (MAC). We…”
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