- The document contains the results of an experiment with multiple data points plotted as dots across various x and y-axis values.
- There are a large number of data points densely plotted in the graph, with some outliers at the edges.
- The data points are recorded measurements from an experiment, but no other context is provided about the experiment, variables, or what is being measured.
Community dynamics of the adolescent vaginal microbiome during puberty (UOreg...Roxana Hickey
Presented by Roxana Hickey (PhD candidate, University of Idaho) at the University of Oregon META Symposium on "Host-Microbe Systems Biology: Modeling Our Microbial Selves" 8-10 Aug 2014 in Eugene, OR
Community dynamics of the adolescent vaginal microbiome during puberty (UOreg...Roxana Hickey
Presented by Roxana Hickey (PhD candidate, University of Idaho) at the University of Oregon META Symposium on "Host-Microbe Systems Biology: Modeling Our Microbial Selves" 8-10 Aug 2014 in Eugene, OR
Entwicklungen in Spielen als Innovationstreiber für UsabilityMichael Jendryschik
Die Geschichte der Spieleentwicklung zeigt sehr kurze Innovationszyklen im Bereich von Usability und HMI, sowohl im Hard- als auch im Softwarebereich. Von diesen Entwicklungen können auch industrielle HMI-Konzepte profitieren: „Game inspired HMI Design“ steigert unter anderem die Individualisierbarkeit und die Lernförderlichkeit von HMIs und damit die Motivation und Arbeitsqualität der Nutzer.
A Large-Scale Study of Test Coverage Evolutionjon_bell
While it is common for projects to measure what percentage of their statements are executed by tests, this single number is woefully inadequate at providing a detailed understanding of the extent to which a project’s code is tested, if there are gaps in the tests, and if these tests are useful in any meaningful way. For instance, seemingly simple changes in one part of the codebase may reduce the efficacy of existing tests that seem otherwise unrelated.
Code coverage can be useful to track long-term trends in how tested a project is, but on a day-to-day basis, can’t serve as an indicator for the change in test suite quality. In particular, moving the coverage needle even 0.01% can be extremely difficult in a project with millions of lines of code. At such a large scale, focus often drifts from which lines of code are covered to simply the number of lines covered. However, a change in the coverage of several hundred critical lines of code might be important for developers to take notice of. Over time, these small changes to which lines are covered add up to form a coverage debt, and can lead to a dangerous reduction in test suite effectiveness.
We are building tools and techniques to help every developer track and manage their coverage debt, easily answering questions like: Which lines are no longer covered, even though I didn’t change them? Which lines are non-deterministically covered, perhaps indicative of flaky tests? By answering these questions with hard data, we can provide developers with a rich understanding of the impact of their actions on test suite effectiveness.
Using JIRA and Confluence to support ITIL like processesjoergreichert
Standards like ITIL define processes how to handle incoming inquiries, bug reports and change requests. This presentation shows some hints how to use and customize JIRA and Confluence to support such processes.
Exploring Practices in Machine Learning and Machine Discovery for Heterogeneo...Ichigaku Takigawa
Video https://youtu.be/P4QogT8bdqY
ACS Spring 2023 Symposium on AI-Accelerated Scientific Workflow
https://acs.digitellinc.com/acs/sessions/526630/view
ACS SPRING 2023 ———— Crossroads of Chemistry
Indianapolis, IN & Hybrid, March 26-30
https://www.acs.org/meetings/acs-meetings/spring-2023.html
Slide PDF
https://itakigawa.page.link/acs2023spring
Our Paper
Accelerated discovery of multi-elemental reverse water-gas shift catalysts using extrapolative machine learning approach (2022, ChemRxiv)
https://doi.org/10.26434/chemrxiv-2022-695rj
Ichi Takigawa
https://itakigawa.github.io/
Machine Learning for Molecules: Lessons and Challenges of Data-Centric ChemistryIchigaku Takigawa
Perspectives on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Materials Science
February 4, 2022. – February 6, 2022.
https://joint.imi.kyushu-u.ac.jp/post-2698/
Machine Learning for Molecular Graph Representations and GeometriesIchigaku Takigawa
Dec 1, 2021, Pacifico Yokohama, Japan.
Symposium 1AS-17 "Data science and machine learning: Tackling the Noise and Heterogeneity of the Real World"
The 44th Annual Meetingn of the Molecular Biology Society of Japan
https://www2.aeplan.co.jp/mbsj2021/english/designation/index.html
Friday, October 15th, 2021, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan.
Hokkaido University ICReDD - Faculty of Medicine Joint Symposium
https://www.icredd.hokudai.ac.jp/event/5993
ICReDD (Institute for Chemical Reaction Design and Discovery)
https://www.icredd.hokudai.ac.jp
A machine-learning view on heterogeneous catalyst design and discoveryIchigaku Takigawa
Telluride Workshop on Computational Materials Chemistry, Telluride, Colorado, USA, July 1, 2021.
https://research.chem.ucr.edu/groups/jiang/Telluride_Workshop.html
https://www.telluridescience.org/meetings/workshop-details?wid=901
https://www.telluridescience.org/meetings/workshop-details?wid=945
Machine Learning for Chemistry: Representing and InterveningIchigaku Takigawa
Joint Symposium of Engineering & Information Science & WPI-ICReDD in Hokkaido University
Apr. 26 (Mon), 2021
https://www.icredd.hokudai.ac.jp/event/5430
Deep Behavioral Phenotyping in Systems Neuroscience for Functional Atlasing a...Ana Luísa Pinho
Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) provides means to characterize brain activations in response to behavior. However, cognitive neuroscience has been limited to group-level effects referring to the performance of specific tasks. To obtain the functional profile of elementary cognitive mechanisms, the combination of brain responses to many tasks is required. Yet, to date, both structural atlases and parcellation-based activations do not fully account for cognitive function and still present several limitations. Further, they do not adapt overall to individual characteristics. In this talk, I will give an account of deep-behavioral phenotyping strategies, namely data-driven methods in large task-fMRI datasets, to optimize functional brain-data collection and improve inference of effects-of-interest related to mental processes. Key to this approach is the employment of fast multi-functional paradigms rich on features that can be well parametrized and, consequently, facilitate the creation of psycho-physiological constructs to be modelled with imaging data. Particular emphasis will be given to music stimuli when studying high-order cognitive mechanisms, due to their ecological nature and quality to enable complex behavior compounded by discrete entities. I will also discuss how deep-behavioral phenotyping and individualized models applied to neuroimaging data can better account for the subject-specific organization of domain-general cognitive systems in the human brain. Finally, the accumulation of functional brain signatures brings the possibility to clarify relationships among tasks and create a univocal link between brain systems and mental functions through: (1) the development of ontologies proposing an organization of cognitive processes; and (2) brain-network taxonomies describing functional specialization. To this end, tools to improve commensurability in cognitive science are necessary, such as public repositories, ontology-based platforms and automated meta-analysis tools. I will thus discuss some brain-atlasing resources currently under development, and their applicability in cognitive as well as clinical neuroscience.
Earliest Galaxies in the JADES Origins Field: Luminosity Function and Cosmic ...Sérgio Sacani
We characterize the earliest galaxy population in the JADES Origins Field (JOF), the deepest
imaging field observed with JWST. We make use of the ancillary Hubble optical images (5 filters
spanning 0.4−0.9µm) and novel JWST images with 14 filters spanning 0.8−5µm, including 7 mediumband filters, and reaching total exposure times of up to 46 hours per filter. We combine all our data
at > 2.3µm to construct an ultradeep image, reaching as deep as ≈ 31.4 AB mag in the stack and
30.3-31.0 AB mag (5σ, r = 0.1” circular aperture) in individual filters. We measure photometric
redshifts and use robust selection criteria to identify a sample of eight galaxy candidates at redshifts
z = 11.5 − 15. These objects show compact half-light radii of R1/2 ∼ 50 − 200pc, stellar masses of
M⋆ ∼ 107−108M⊙, and star-formation rates of SFR ∼ 0.1−1 M⊙ yr−1
. Our search finds no candidates
at 15 < z < 20, placing upper limits at these redshifts. We develop a forward modeling approach to
infer the properties of the evolving luminosity function without binning in redshift or luminosity that
marginalizes over the photometric redshift uncertainty of our candidate galaxies and incorporates the
impact of non-detections. We find a z = 12 luminosity function in good agreement with prior results,
and that the luminosity function normalization and UV luminosity density decline by a factor of ∼ 2.5
from z = 12 to z = 14. We discuss the possible implications of our results in the context of theoretical
models for evolution of the dark matter halo mass function.
Multi-source connectivity as the driver of solar wind variability in the heli...Sérgio Sacani
The ambient solar wind that flls the heliosphere originates from multiple
sources in the solar corona and is highly structured. It is often described
as high-speed, relatively homogeneous, plasma streams from coronal
holes and slow-speed, highly variable, streams whose source regions are
under debate. A key goal of ESA/NASA’s Solar Orbiter mission is to identify
solar wind sources and understand what drives the complexity seen in the
heliosphere. By combining magnetic feld modelling and spectroscopic
techniques with high-resolution observations and measurements, we show
that the solar wind variability detected in situ by Solar Orbiter in March
2022 is driven by spatio-temporal changes in the magnetic connectivity to
multiple sources in the solar atmosphere. The magnetic feld footpoints
connected to the spacecraft moved from the boundaries of a coronal hole
to one active region (12961) and then across to another region (12957). This
is refected in the in situ measurements, which show the transition from fast
to highly Alfvénic then to slow solar wind that is disrupted by the arrival of
a coronal mass ejection. Our results describe solar wind variability at 0.5 au
but are applicable to near-Earth observatories.
Nutraceutical market, scope and growth: Herbal drug technologyLokesh Patil
As consumer awareness of health and wellness rises, the nutraceutical market—which includes goods like functional meals, drinks, and dietary supplements that provide health advantages beyond basic nutrition—is growing significantly. As healthcare expenses rise, the population ages, and people want natural and preventative health solutions more and more, this industry is increasing quickly. Further driving market expansion are product formulation innovations and the use of cutting-edge technology for customized nutrition. With its worldwide reach, the nutraceutical industry is expected to keep growing and provide significant chances for research and investment in a number of categories, including vitamins, minerals, probiotics, and herbal supplements.
A brief information about the SCOP protein database used in bioinformatics.
The Structural Classification of Proteins (SCOP) database is a comprehensive and authoritative resource for the structural and evolutionary relationships of proteins. It provides a detailed and curated classification of protein structures, grouping them into families, superfamilies, and folds based on their structural and sequence similarities.
Richard's aventures in two entangled wonderlandsRichard Gill
Since the loophole-free Bell experiments of 2020 and the Nobel prizes in physics of 2022, critics of Bell's work have retreated to the fortress of super-determinism. Now, super-determinism is a derogatory word - it just means "determinism". Palmer, Hance and Hossenfelder argue that quantum mechanics and determinism are not incompatible, using a sophisticated mathematical construction based on a subtle thinning of allowed states and measurements in quantum mechanics, such that what is left appears to make Bell's argument fail, without altering the empirical predictions of quantum mechanics. I think however that it is a smoke screen, and the slogan "lost in math" comes to my mind. I will discuss some other recent disproofs of Bell's theorem using the language of causality based on causal graphs. Causal thinking is also central to law and justice. I will mention surprising connections to my work on serial killer nurse cases, in particular the Dutch case of Lucia de Berk and the current UK case of Lucy Letby.
(May 29th, 2024) Advancements in Intravital Microscopy- Insights for Preclini...Scintica Instrumentation
Intravital microscopy (IVM) is a powerful tool utilized to study cellular behavior over time and space in vivo. Much of our understanding of cell biology has been accomplished using various in vitro and ex vivo methods; however, these studies do not necessarily reflect the natural dynamics of biological processes. Unlike traditional cell culture or fixed tissue imaging, IVM allows for the ultra-fast high-resolution imaging of cellular processes over time and space and were studied in its natural environment. Real-time visualization of biological processes in the context of an intact organism helps maintain physiological relevance and provide insights into the progression of disease, response to treatments or developmental processes.
In this webinar we give an overview of advanced applications of the IVM system in preclinical research. IVIM technology is a provider of all-in-one intravital microscopy systems and solutions optimized for in vivo imaging of live animal models at sub-micron resolution. The system’s unique features and user-friendly software enables researchers to probe fast dynamic biological processes such as immune cell tracking, cell-cell interaction as well as vascularization and tumor metastasis with exceptional detail. This webinar will also give an overview of IVM being utilized in drug development, offering a view into the intricate interaction between drugs/nanoparticles and tissues in vivo and allows for the evaluation of therapeutic intervention in a variety of tissues and organs. This interdisciplinary collaboration continues to drive the advancements of novel therapeutic strategies.
Slide 1: Title Slide
Extrachromosomal Inheritance
Slide 2: Introduction to Extrachromosomal Inheritance
Definition: Extrachromosomal inheritance refers to the transmission of genetic material that is not found within the nucleus.
Key Components: Involves genes located in mitochondria, chloroplasts, and plasmids.
Slide 3: Mitochondrial Inheritance
Mitochondria: Organelles responsible for energy production.
Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA): Circular DNA molecule found in mitochondria.
Inheritance Pattern: Maternally inherited, meaning it is passed from mothers to all their offspring.
Diseases: Examples include Leber’s hereditary optic neuropathy (LHON) and mitochondrial myopathy.
Slide 4: Chloroplast Inheritance
Chloroplasts: Organelles responsible for photosynthesis in plants.
Chloroplast DNA (cpDNA): Circular DNA molecule found in chloroplasts.
Inheritance Pattern: Often maternally inherited in most plants, but can vary in some species.
Examples: Variegation in plants, where leaf color patterns are determined by chloroplast DNA.
Slide 5: Plasmid Inheritance
Plasmids: Small, circular DNA molecules found in bacteria and some eukaryotes.
Features: Can carry antibiotic resistance genes and can be transferred between cells through processes like conjugation.
Significance: Important in biotechnology for gene cloning and genetic engineering.
Slide 6: Mechanisms of Extrachromosomal Inheritance
Non-Mendelian Patterns: Do not follow Mendel’s laws of inheritance.
Cytoplasmic Segregation: During cell division, organelles like mitochondria and chloroplasts are randomly distributed to daughter cells.
Heteroplasmy: Presence of more than one type of organellar genome within a cell, leading to variation in expression.
Slide 7: Examples of Extrachromosomal Inheritance
Four O’clock Plant (Mirabilis jalapa): Shows variegated leaves due to different cpDNA in leaf cells.
Petite Mutants in Yeast: Result from mutations in mitochondrial DNA affecting respiration.
Slide 8: Importance of Extrachromosomal Inheritance
Evolution: Provides insight into the evolution of eukaryotic cells.
Medicine: Understanding mitochondrial inheritance helps in diagnosing and treating mitochondrial diseases.
Agriculture: Chloroplast inheritance can be used in plant breeding and genetic modification.
Slide 9: Recent Research and Advances
Gene Editing: Techniques like CRISPR-Cas9 are being used to edit mitochondrial and chloroplast DNA.
Therapies: Development of mitochondrial replacement therapy (MRT) for preventing mitochondrial diseases.
Slide 10: Conclusion
Summary: Extrachromosomal inheritance involves the transmission of genetic material outside the nucleus and plays a crucial role in genetics, medicine, and biotechnology.
Future Directions: Continued research and technological advancements hold promise for new treatments and applications.
Slide 11: Questions and Discussion
Invite Audience: Open the floor for any questions or further discussion on the topic.
Professional air quality monitoring systems provide immediate, on-site data for analysis, compliance, and decision-making.
Monitor common gases, weather parameters, particulates.
Comparing Evolved Extractive Text Summary Scores of Bidirectional Encoder Rep...University of Maribor
Slides from:
11th International Conference on Electrical, Electronics and Computer Engineering (IcETRAN), Niš, 3-6 June 2024
Track: Artificial Intelligence
https://www.etran.rs/2024/en/home-english/