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Ali Raza Awan

- Verified email at alumni.stanford.edu - Cited by 3421

Ashar Awan

- Verified email at ajku.edu.pk - Cited by 1323

[PDF][PDF] Classification techniques in machine learning: applications and issues

AA Soofi, A Awan - J. Basic Appl. Sci, 2017 - pdfs.semanticscholar.org
Classification is a data mining (machine learning) technique used to predict group
membership for data instances. There are several classification techniques that can be used …

Primary cilia and signaling pathways in mammalian development, health and disease

IR Veland, A Awan, LB Pedersen, BK Yoder… - Nephron …, 2009 - karger.com
Although first described as early as 1898 and long considered a vestigial organelle of little
functional importance, the primary cilium has become one of the hottest research topics in …

[HTML][HTML] Tracking development assistance for health and for COVID-19: a review of development assistance, government, out-of-pocket, and other private spending on …

AE Micah, IE Cogswell, B Cunningham, S Ezoe… - The Lancet, 2021 - thelancet.com
Background The rapid spread of COVID-19 renewed the focus on how health systems
across the globe are financed, especially during public health emergencies. Development …

[HTML][HTML] Hospital admission and emergency care attendance risk for SARS-CoV-2 delta (B. 1.617. 2) compared with alpha (B. 1.1. 7) variants of concern: a cohort …

…, J Moore, S Stonehouse, C Fisher, A Awan… - The Lancet Infectious …, 2022 - thelancet.com
Summary Background The SARS-CoV-2 delta (B. 1.617. 2) variant was first detected in
England in March, 2021. It has since rapidly become the predominant lineage, owing to high …

[HTML][HTML] Spatial, temporal, and demographic patterns in prevalence of smoking tobacco use and attributable disease burden in 204 countries and territories, 1990 …

MB Reitsma, PJ Kendrick, E Ababneh, C Abbafati… - The Lancet, 2021 - thelancet.com
Background Ending the global tobacco epidemic is a defining challenge in global health.
Timely and comprehensive estimates of the prevalence of smoking tobacco use and …

[PDF][PDF] Evaluating the effects of SARS-CoV-2 spike mutation D614G on transmissibility and pathogenicity

E Volz, V Hill, JT McCrone, A Price, D Jorgensen… - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
Global dispersal and increasing frequency of the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein variant D614G
are suggestive of a selective advantage but may also be due to a random founder effect. We …

[PDF][PDF] Recurrent emergence of SARS-CoV-2 spike deletion H69/V70 and its role in the Alpha variant B. 1.1. 7

B Meng, SA Kemp, G Papa, R Datir, IATM Ferreira… - Cell reports, 2021 - cell.com
We report severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) spike ΔH69/V70
in multiple independent lineages, often occurring after acquisition of receptor binding motif …

Understanding the impact of video quality on user engagement

F Dobrian, V Sekar, A Awan, I Stoica… - ACM SIGCOMM …, 2011 - dl.acm.org
As the distribution of the video over the Internet becomes main-stream and its consumption
moves from the computer to the TV screen, user expectation for high quality is constantly …

Learning to detect objects in images via a sparse, part-based representation

S Agarwal, A Awan, D Roth - IEEE transactions on pattern …, 2004 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We study the problem of detecting objects in still, gray-scale images. Our primary focus is the
development of a learning-based approach to the problem that makes use of a sparse, part …

[HTML][HTML] Changes in symptomatology, reinfection, and transmissibility associated with the SARS-CoV-2 variant B. 1.1. 7: an ecological study

MS Graham, CH Sudre, A May, M Antonelli… - The Lancet Public …, 2021 - thelancet.com
Summary Background The SARS-CoV-2 variant B. 1.1. 7 was first identified in December,
2020, in England. We aimed to investigate whether increases in the proportion of infections …