In this paper, we address the problem of approximating the atoms of a parametric dictionary A = {a(θ) : θ ∈ Θ}, commonly encountered in the context of sparse representations in "continuous" dictionaries. We focus on the case of translation-invariant dictionaries, where the inner product between a(θ) and a(θ) only depends on the difference θ − θ. We...
Published in Scientific Reports
Circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) has become an attractive biomarker in human oncology, and its use may be informative in canine cancer. Thus, we used droplet digital PCR or PCR for antigen receptor rearrangement, to explore tumor-specific point mutations, copy number alterations, and chromosomal rearrangements in the plasma of cancer-affected dogs. We...
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Whipple disease (WD) is a rare infectious systemic disease. Rheumatologists are at the frontline of WD diagnosis due to the early rheumatological manifestations. An early diagnosis is crucial, as usual anti-rheumatic drugs, especially TNF inhibitors, may worsen the disease course. We conducted a retrospective multicentre national study from January...
Published in BMC Bioinformatics
BackgroundTo assign structural and functional annotations to the ever increasing amount of sequenced proteins, the main approach relies on sequence-based homology search methods, e.g. BLAST or the current state-of-the-art methods based on profile Hidden Markov Models, which rely on significant alignments of query sequences to annotated proteins or ...
Published in The Astronomy and Astrophysics Review
The mass of a star is the most fundamental parameter for its structure, evolution, and final fate. It is particularly important for any kind of stellar archaeology and characterization of exoplanets. There exist a variety of methods in astronomy to estimate or determine it. In this review we present a significant number of such methods, beginning w...
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Third-generation sequencing technologies allow to sequence long reads of tens of kbp, that are expected to solve various problems. However, they display high error rates, currently capped around 10%. Self-correction is thus regularly used in long reads analysis projects. We introduce CONSENT, a new self-correction method that relies both on multipl...
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A low-cost, compact, and high gain Fabry–Perot cavity (FPC) antenna which operates at 300 GHz is presented. The antenna is fabricated using laser-cutting brass technology. The proposed antenna consists of seven metallic layers; a ground layer, an integrated stepped horn element (three-layers), a coupling layer, a cavity layer, and an aperture-frequ...
Published in Communications Materials
Uniaxial strain is a powerful approach to tune material properties and select between nearly degenerate phases. Here, uniaxial strain is used to stabilize the elusive 6×1 charge ordered ground state of IrTe2, revealing insights into its electronic structure and type-II topological Dirac states.
Collinearly placed patch antenna arrays, printed on high permittivity dielectric substrates, suffer from an unwanted inter element coupling due to strong surface waves. A new shaped Defected Ground Structure (DGS) is proposed to suppress such waves in between elements. A low dimensional μ shaped DGS is carved out in between two E-plane patch antenn...
Motivation: Approximate membership query (AMQ) structures as Cuckoo filters or Bloom filters are widely used for representing large sets of elements. Their lightweight space usage explains their success, mainly as they are the only way to scale hundreds of billions or trillions of elements. However, they suffer by nature from non-avoidable false-po...
