User profiles for K. McKinnon

Karen Aline McKinnon

Assistant Professor of Statistics and the Environment, UCLA
Verified email at g.ucla.edu
Cited by 2263

Insights from Earth system model initial-condition large ensembles and future prospects

…, NS Lovenduski, J Marotzke, KA McKinnon… - Nature Climate …, 2020 - nature.com
… fractional difference between the spread in 50-yr trends of annual near-surface air temperature
in the CESM1-LE and the spread estimated from applying the methodology of McKinnon

Flow cytometry: an overview

KM McKinnon - Current protocols in immunology, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Flow cytometry is a technology that provides rapid multi‐parametric analysis of single cells
in solution. Flow cytometers utilize lasers as light sources to produce both scattered and …

HIV seroprevalence among people with severe mental illness in the United States: a critical review

F Cournos, K McKinnon - Clinical psychology review, 1997 - Elsevier
The authors reviewed all studies in the peer-reviewed literature reporting HIV seroprevalence
among people with severe mental illness in the United States, which varied from 4.0% to …

Convergence of the Nelder--Mead Simplex method to a nonstationary Point

KIM McKinnon - SIAM Journal on optimization, 1998 - SIAM
This paper analyzes the behavior of the Nelder--Mead simplex method for a family of
examples which cause the method to converge to a nonstationary point. All the examples use …

Antigen-capturing nanoparticles improve the abscopal effect and cancer immunotherapy

…, KC Roche, S Tian, MJ Eblan, KP McKinnon… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Immunotherapy holds tremendous promise for improving cancer treatment 1 . To administer
radiotherapy with immunotherapy has been shown to improve immune responses and can …

[HTML][HTML] A microfluidic culture model of the human reproductive tract and 28-day menstrual cycle

…, J Zhu, SA Olalekan, KE McKinnon… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
The endocrine system dynamically controls tissue differentiation and homeostasis, but has
not been studied using dynamic tissue culture paradigms. Here we show that a microfluidic …

A randomized, double‐blind trial of abatacept (CTLA‐4Ig) for the treatment of giant cell arteritis

…, KJ Warrington, C Pagnoux, K McKinnon… - Arthritis & …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Objective To compare the efficacy of abatacept to that of placebo for the treatment of giant cell
arteritis (GCA). Methods In this multicenter trial, patients with newly diagnosed or relapsing …

[HTML][HTML] Labeling extracellular vesicles for nanoscale flow cytometry

…, B Telford, TA Musich, K McKinnon… - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
Extracellular vesicles (EVs), including exosomes and microvesicles, are 30–800 nm vesicles
that are released by most cell types, as biological packages for intercellular communication…

Local solutions of the optimal power flow problem

WA Bukhsh, A Grothey, KIM McKinnon… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… .ac.uk; a.grothey@ed.ac.uk; k.mckinnon@ed.ac.uk). PA Trodden is with the Department of
… Ken IM McKinnon received the B.Sc. degree in mathematics and physics from the University …

Critical role for CCR5 in the function of donor CD4+CD25+ regulatory T cells during acute graft-versus-host disease

…, A Panoskaltsis-Mortari, PA Taylor, KP McKinnon… - Blood, 2005 - ashpublications.org
CD4 + CD25 + regulatory T cells (T regs ) have been shown to inhibit graft-versus-host disease
(GVHD) in murine models, and this suppression was mediated by T regs expressing the …