Human face is a distinctive characteristic of individual identification and recognition, showing extensive variations in shape, color, and spatial arrangement among facial features.

Whether or not to perform Coronary Angiography(CA) facing an Unstable angina(UA) / Non ST segment elevation myocardial infraction(NSTEMI) patient come to outpatient deparment is a difficult challenge for Cardiology physicians.

The genetic data has been extensively used to construct phenotype prediction, which was proved useful to stratify the general European population into different risk groups.

Controlling the False Discovery Rate (FDR) in a variable selection procedure is critical for reproducible discoveries, which receives an extensive study in sparse linear models.

Bayesian aggregation has many good characteristics in both theory and practice, which is proved more stable and flexible than single model selection.

With the rapid development of wireless communication technologies, location-based social networks(LBSNs), such as Foursquare and Gowalla, have become very popular. LBSNs have attracted millions of users to share their social friendship and their locations via check-ins.

With the rapid increase in the data volume of modern communications, optical fiber infrastructures are required to have a larger capacity and higher transmission rate.