Money laundering is the process of hiding or disguising the unlawful origin of property and hiding or disguising the true nature, origin, source, location, disposal, ownership or title of property. In other words, money laundering means “laundering” dirty money until it becomes clean. Corrupt officials and other criminals use money laundering techn...
Published in Frontiers in Earth Science
Induced seismicity has become a concern for industry and nearby residents. Fluid-induced earthquakes are a side effect of industrial operations such as hydraulic fracturing, where high-pressure fluids are pumped into the Earth’s crust to increase hydrocarbon flow to a well from petroleum-bearing rock formations. Previous studies on fluid-induced se...
Solute clustering and precipitation have been widely investigated in Al-Mg-Si alloys during the past decades due to their ever-growing significance in industrial applications. Natural ageing (NA) following solutionising and quenching can result in the formation of vacancy and solute atom clusters of varying sizes and densities in Al alloys. This ha...
Taxonomy is the very first step of most biodi- versity studies, but how confident can we be in the taxa delineation? One may hypothesize that the more abundant the material, the more accurate the description of morpho- logical variability and hence the better the taxonomic delin- eation. Yet, as we shall see, in the case of numerous transitional fo...
Published in Allergy
Atopic dermatitis (AD) is a frequent and heterogeneous inflammatory skin disease, for which personalized medicine remains a challenge. High-throughput approaches have improved understanding of the complex pathophysiology of AD. However, a purely data-driven AD classification is still lacking. To address this question, we applied an original unsuper...
Published in Frontiers in Bioinformatics
Bacterial diversity is often analyzed using 16S rRNA gene amplicon sequencing. Commonly, sequences are clustered based on similarity cutoffs to obtain groups reflecting molecular species, genera, or families. Due to the amount of the generated sequencing data, greedy algorithms are preferred for their time efficiency. Such algorithms rely only on p...
Published in Frontiers in Genetics
Polyploidization plays a critical role in producing new gene functions and promoting species evolution. Effective identification of polyploid types can be helpful in exploring the evolutionary mechanism. However, current methods for detecting polyploid types have some major limitations, such as being time-consuming and strong subjectivity, etc. In ...
Published in Frontiers in Neuroscience
This paper presents ACCWSI (Attentive Context Clustering WSI), a method for Word Sense Induction, suitable for languages with limited resources. Pretrained on a small corpus and given an ambiguous word (a query word) and a set of excerpts that contain it, ACCWSI uses an attention mechanism for generating context-aware embeddings, distinguishing bet...
Published in Frontiers in Genetics
With the technological advances in recent decades, determining whole genome sequencing of a person has become feasible and affordable. As a result, large-scale individual genomic sequences are produced and collected for genetic medical diagnoses and cancer drug discovery, which, however, simultaneously poses serious challenges to the protection of ...
