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Seasonal variation in wing size and shape of Drosophila melanogaster reveals rapid adaptation to environmental changes

Scientific Reports, 2022
Populations in seasonal fluctuating environments receive multiple environmental cues and must deal with this heterogenic environment to survive and reproduce.
Banu Şebnem Önder, Cansu Fidan Aksoy
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Development of the Wits Face Database: an African database of high-resolution facial photographs and multimodal closed-circuit television (CCTV) recordings [version 1; peer review: 2 approved]

F1000Research, 2021
Forensic facial comparison is a commonly used, yet under-evaluated method employed in medicolegal contexts across the world. Testing the accuracy and reliability of facial comparisons requires large scale controlled and matching facial image databases ...
Nicholas Bacci, Joshua Davimes, Maryna Steyn, Nanette Briers   +3 more
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Holocene East Asian Summer Monsoon Variation Recorded by Sensitive Grain Size Component from the Pearl River-Derived Mud in the Northern South China Sea

Lithosphere, 2022
To better understand the environmental significance of sediment grain size in continental shelf of the South China Sea (SCS), we carried out a detailed grain size study of sediments from the YJ Core, derived from the mud deposits of the northern SCS ...
Jin Xu, Chao Huang, Xin Huang
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Forensic Facial Comparison: Current Status, Limitations, and Future Directions

Biology, 2021
Global escalation of crime has necessitated the use of digital imagery to aid the identification of perpetrators. Forensic facial comparison (FFC) is increasingly employed, often relying on poor-quality images.
Nicholas Bacci, Joshua G. Davimes, Maryna Steyn, Nanette Briers   +3 more
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Variations in Variational Autoencoders - A Comparative Evaluation [PDF]

IEEE Access, 2020
Variational Auto-Encoders (VAEs) are deep latent space generative models which have been immensely successful in many applications such as image generation, image captioning, protein design, mutation prediction, and language models among others. The fundamental idea in VAEs is to learn the distribution of data in such a way that new meaningful data can
Ruoqi Wei, Cesar Garcia, Ahmed ElSayed, Viyaleta Peterson, Ausif Mahmood   +4 more
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Consequences of anthropogenic activities and beach dynamics on vertical distribution of microplastics in the mid-intertidal sediments of Donghai Island, China

Water Science and Technology, 2022
Microplastic accumulation and resulting degradation are significant threats to the coastal ecosystems around the world. Baseline information on microplastics and their sources is of great importance for a permanent waste management system.
Mayakrishnan Machendiranathan, Yaoqiang Hu, WeiCong Chen, Ao Tan, Lingling Xie, Fajin Chen, Guangzhe Jin, Rajamohanan Pillai Ranith, Lakshmanan Senthilnathan   +8 more
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Regional variation in the pronunciation of /s/ in the Dutch language area [PDF]

, 2019
This paper reports on an explorative sociophonetic study of the phoneme /s/ in the Dutch language area. Our aim is to investigate the regional variation in the realisation of this phoneme, and to test experimentally the observation of Collins & Mees ...
Heeren, W.F.L., Pinget, A.F., LS OZ Lexion en syntaxis, Ditewig, S., Pinget, A.C.H., ILS Variation, Ditewig, Sanne   +6 more
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Three Variations on Variational Autoencoders

CoRR, 2022
21 pages. This version, v2, has added an explicit evaluation of our VAE A variational encoder.
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Contrasting the Impacts of Intraseasonal Oscillations on Yangtze Precipitation during the Summer of 1998 and 2016

Atmosphere, 2023
In 1998 and 2016, boreal summer intraseasonal oscillation (BSISO) could reach the middle-lower reaches of the Yangtze River basin (YRB), leading to extreme precipitation.
Mimi Tao, Li Yan, Shaojun Zheng, Jianjun Xu, Yinlan Chen   +4 more
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Aspects of Linguistic Variation [PDF]

, 2018
This volume brings together papers on linguistic variation. It takes a broad perspective, covering not only crosslinguistic and diachronic but also intralinguistic and interspeaker variation, and examines phenomena ranging from negation and TAM over ...

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