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Nicholas Johnson

- Verified email at cs.umn.edu - Cited by 248

Nicholas AG Johnson

- Verified email at mit.edu - Cited by 10

Concave pro-rata games

NAG Johnson, T Diamandis, A Evans… - … Conference on Financial …, 2023 - Springer
In this paper, we introduce a family of games called concave pro-rata games. In such a game,
players place their assets into a pool, and the pool pays out some concave function of all …

ROptimus: a parallel general-purpose adaptive optimization engine

NAG Johnson, L Tamon, X Liu, AB Sahakyan - Bioinformatics, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Motivation Various computational biology calculations require a probabilistic optimization
protocol to determine the parameters that capture the system at a desired state in the …

Sparse Plus Low Rank Matrix Decomposition: A Discrete Optimization Approach

D Bertsimas, R Cory-Wright, NAG Johnson - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2021 - arxiv.org
We study the Sparse Plus Low-Rank decomposition problem (SLR), which is the problem of
decomposing a corrupted data matrix into a sparse matrix of perturbations plus a low-rank …

An RNA-centric dissection of host complexes controlling flavivirus infection

…, JK Li, N van Buuren, N Rumachik, AG Johnson… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Flaviviruses, including dengue virus (DENV) and Zika virus (ZIKV), cause severe human
disease. Co-opting cellular factors for viral translation and viral genome replication at the …

Optimus: a general purpose adaptive optimisation engine in R

NAG Johnson, L Tamon, X Liu, AB Sahakyan - bioRxiv, 2022 - biorxiv.org
Motivation Many calculations in computational biology necessitate a use of a probabilistic
optimisation protocol to determine a set of parameters that capture the system at a desired …

RACK1 on and off the ribosome

AG Johnson, CP Lapointe, J Wang, NC Corsepius… - Rna, 2019 - rnajournal.cshlp.org
Receptor for activated C kinase 1 (RACK1) is a eukaryote-specific ribosomal protein (RP)
implicated in diverse biological functions. To engineer ribosomes for specific fluorescent …

Gamma M Synthesis During the Secondary Antibody Response In Mice.

SS Nicholas, AG Johnson - Proceedings of the Society for …, 1966 - journals.sagepub.com
The secondary response in mice was characterized by the appearance first of gamma M
globulin followed in 3 to 7 days by the appearance of gamma G globulin which then remained …

[BOOK][B] The gender knot: Unraveling our patriarchal legacy

AG Johnson - 2005 - books.google.com
" The Gender Knot," Allan Johnson's response to the pain and confusion that men and women
Johnson's simple yet powerful approach avoids the paralyzing trap of guilt, blame, anger, …

Improved therapeutic drug monitoring of tacrolimus (FK506) by tandem mass spectrometry

PJ Taylor, NS Hogan, SV Lynch, AG Johnson… - Clinical …, 1997 - academic.oup.com
The lead concentrations were calculated from the leadstripping peaks with the use of
supplemented blood calibration. The results of the correlation study (Fig. 1) show an excellent …

Sequential Stochastic Network Structure Optimization with Applications to Addressing Canada's Obesity Epidemic

NAG Johnson - arXiv preprint arXiv:2109.12730, 2021 - arxiv.org
In this work, we introduce a novel mathematical network model for community level
preventative health interventions. We develop algorithms to approximately solve this novel …