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Mitochondrial Pseudogenes Suggest Repeated Inter-Species Hybridization among Direct Human Ancestors

The hypothesis that the evolution of humans involves hybridization between diverged species has been actively debated in recent years. We present the following novel evidence in support of this hypothesis: the analysis of nuclear pseudogenes of mtDNA ("NUM ...

MDPI2022

The potential of textile reinforced concrete for design of innovative structures

Aurelio Muttoni, Patricia Guaita, Raffael Baur, Miguel Fernández Ruiz, Patrick Lorenzo Valeri

Textile Reinforced Concrete (TRC) is a recent evolution of ordinary reinforced concrete. This relatively new construction material replaces steel reinforcement with high-strength, non-corrosive textile fabrics in order to reduce cover requirements to minim ...

2019

Comparing human and machine performances in transcribing 18th century handwritten Venetian script

Frédéric Kaplan, Sofia Ares Oliveira

Automatic transcription of handwritten texts has made important progress in the recent years. This increase in performance, essentially due to new architectures combining convolutional neural networks with recurrent neutral networks, opens new avenues for ...

2018

Comparing human and machine performances in transcribing 18th century handwritten Venetian script

Sofia Ares Oliveira

2018

Adult human perception of distress in the cries of bonobo, chimpanzee, and human infants

Understanding the extent to which humans perceive the emotional state of animals has both theoretical and practical implications. While recent studies indicate that natural selection has led to some convergence of emotion coding among vertebrate species (i ...

Wiley2017

Diabète. Chaussures intelligentes pour patients diabétiques

Yves Perriard, Yoan René Cyrille Civet, Daniel Grivon

Les taux d’ulcération et d’amputation des membres inférieurs chez des patients diabétiques demeurent très élevés et sont donc inacceptables. Les récidives d’ulcères plantaires qui augmentent le risque d’amputation sont fortement liées à la difficulté d’obt ...

Publisher unknown2016

Tracking residence times in hydrological systems: forward and backward formulations

Andrea Rinaldo, Paolo Benettin, Gianluca Botter

In recent years, several papers contributed to the development and clarification of key theoretical issues underlying the formulation of transport by travel time distributions in catchments. Such a formulation provides a robust description of the temporal ...

Wiley-Blackwell2015

Functional characterization of a new tetrachloroethene reductive dehalogenase of Sulfurospirillum spp. identified in mixed cultures

Christof Holliger, Julien Maillard, Géraldine Florence Buttet

Recent analysis of a set of reductive dehalogenases revealed that sequence similarity and substrate specificity are not correlated, making functional prediction from sequences difficult (1). To this respect, several enrichment cultures were investigated fo ...

2014

Modelling Time Series Extremes

Anthony Christopher Davison, Valérie Chavez

The need to model rare events of univariate time series has led to many recent advances in theory and methods. In this paper, we review telegraphically the literature on extremes of dependent time series and list some remaining challenges. ...

2012

Bacterial strategies to overcome insect defences

Bruno Lemaitre

Recent genetic and molecular analyses have revealed how several strategies enable bacteria to persist and overcome insect immune defences. Genetic and genomic tools that can be used with Drosophila melanogaster have enabled the characterization of the path ...

2008

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