Nibouche, Samuel Costet, Laurent Medina, Raul F Holt, Jocelyn R Sadeyen, Joëlle Zoogones, Anne-Sophie Brown, Paul Blackman, Roger L
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Melanaphis sacchari (Zehntner, 1897) and Melanaphis sorghi (Theobald, 1904) are major worldwide crop pests causing direct feeding damage on sorghum and transmitting viruses to sugarcane. It is common in the scientific literature to consider these two species as synonyms, referred to as the 'sugarcane aphid', although no formal study has validated t...
Lerch, Mathias
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The study of regional trends in the rural-urban fertility gradient helps us to understand the pace of completion of the fertility transition and the geography of urban growth in the global South. We question whether the hypothesized inverted U-shaped evolution in rural excess fertility is confirmed in four developing regions, and investigate the un...
Jiang, Da-Quan Wang, Yue Zhou, Da
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We consider the cell population dynamics with n different phenotypes. Both the Markovian branching process model (stochastic model) and the ordinary differential equation (ODE) system model (deterministic model) are presented, and exploited to investigate the dynamics of the phenotypic proportions. We will prove that in both models, these proportio...
Stahl, Pierre Dang, Kai Vandersteen, Clair Guevara, Nicolas Clerc, Maureen Gnansia, Dan
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Oticon Medical cochlear implants use a stimulation mode called Distributed All-Polar (DAP) that connects all non-stimulating available intracochlear electrodes and an extracochlear reference electrode. It results in a complex distribution of current that is yet undescribed. The present study aims at providing a first characterization of this curren...
Deck, Marie Van Hameren, Gerben Campbell, Graham Bernard-Marissal, Nathalie Devaux, Jérôme Berthelot, Jade Lattard, Alise Médard, Jean-Jacques Gautier, Benoît Guelfi, Sophie
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While lactate shuttle theory states that glial cells metabolize glucose into lactate to shuttle it to neurons, how glial cells support axonal metabolism and function remains unclear. Lactate production is a common occurrence following anaerobic glycolysis in muscles. However, several other cell types, including some stem cells, activated macrophage...
Dodds, Peter Sheridan Minot, Joshua R Arnold, Michael V Alshaabi, Thayer Adams, Jane Lydia Reagan, Andrew J Danforth, Christopher M
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Measuring the specific kind, temporal ordering, diversity, and turnover rate of stories surrounding any given subject is essential to developing a complete reckoning of that subject's historical impact. Here, we use Twitter as a distributed news and opinion aggregation source to identify and track the dynamics of the dominant day-scale stories arou...
Mondo, Jean M Agre, Paterne A Asiedu, Robert Akoroda, Malachy O Asfaw, Asrat
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Hand pollination success rate is low in yam (Dioscorea spp.), due partly to suboptimal weather conditions. Thus, determining the most suitable time for pollination could improve the pollination success in yam breeding programs. We performed continuous hand pollination within flowering windows of D. rotundata and D. alata for two consecutive years t...
Nguyen, Thao Vo, Tam M Nguyen, Thang V Pham, Hieu H Nguyen, Ha Q
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Deep learning, in recent times, has made remarkable strides when it comes to impressive performance for many tasks, including medical image processing. One of the contributing factors to these advancements is the emergence of large medical image datasets. However, it is exceedingly expensive and time-consuming to construct a large and trustworthy m...
Marjanovic, Sara Stańczak, Karolina Augenstein, Isabelle
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Despite attempts to increase gender parity in politics, global efforts have struggled to ensure equal female representation. This is likely tied to implicit gender biases against women in authority. In this work, we present a comprehensive study of gender biases that appear in online political discussion. To this end, we collect 10 million comments...
Grunchec, Héloïse Deraze, Jérôme Dardalhon-Cuménal, Delphine Ribeiro, Valérie Coléno-Costes, Anne Dias, Karine Bloyer, Sébastien Mouchel-Vielh, Emmanuèle Peronnet, Frédérique Thomassin, Hélène
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The ribosomal protein uL11 is located at the basis of the ribosome P-stalk and plays a paramount role in translational efficiency. In addition, no mutant for uL11 is available suggesting that this gene is haplo-insufficient as many other Ribosomal Protein Genes (RPGs). We have previously shown that overexpression of Drosophila melanogaster uL11 enh...
