that increase courtship receptivity after being smelled by females63; male frogs (Rana temporaria) produce closely related proteins suspected to also increase female receptivity but deliver them directly into females via spiny nuptial pads rather than releasing them into the environment64. Although the p...
Even after I was engaged to my now-husband, stray thoughts of what it might be like to sleep with other guys kept crossing my mind. But I discounted most of this thinking for one reason or another. The most concerning “crush” came two months before I was going to get married—but, ...
Image-based readers promise higher read rates. They are able to read 2D codes and handle a wide variety of materials and printing methods. And they have no moving parts. But the readers’ promise has been hard to deliver in practice because of the challenges to capturing quality images and ...
I have been involved in gene therapy research for decades. Like many of my peers, I am thrilled that with this incredible breakthrough, CRISPR may be, asone story inGENnoted, entering “prime time” for patient applications. The ability of CRISPR to make precise changes to human DNA th...
Some of these include using weighted loss functions such as the focal loss96 that gives different weights for calculating the loss values related to the majority and the minority classes or using penalized models such as cost-sensitive support vector machine (SVM)97 with inbuilt hyperparameters ...
16. you're telling me slang I know that very well [Old English tellan; related to Old Saxon tellian, Old High German zellen to tell, count, Old Norse telja] ˈtellable adj tell (tɛl) n (Human Geography) a large mound resulting from the accumulation of rubbish on a long-sett...
Related Topics: China Climate Change It is a lofty promise but, as the rest of the world is drawing away from coal, China is digging in. The plant near Daqing is just one of 231 coal burning facilities under construction or preconstruction in China right now, according to Global Energy...
To sum up, whatever our task may be, it always helps to have the right perspective or approach towards various work-related issues. A true and an effective leader is able to visualize his/her goals from different angles and plans things accordingly. This would enable proper distribution of ta...
Since 2012, faced with a sensitive and volatile international situation, and challenging tasks related to domestic reform, development and stability, the Party has placed equal emphasis on development and security, pursued a holistic approach to national security, and led the people in an effective ...
"I know that some of our actions in recent years have undermined the rules-based order and led others to question whether we are still committed to it," Blinken said at last week's United Nations Security Council Open Debate on Multilateralism. RELATED STORIES China...