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Multilevel Weighted Support Vector Machine for Classification on Healthcare Data with Missing Values.

This work is motivated by the needs of predictive analytics on healthcare data as represented by Electronic Medical Records. Such data is invariably problematic: noisy, with missing entries, with imbalance in classes of interests, leading to serious bias in predictive modeling. Since standard data mining methods often produce poor performance measures, we argue for development of specialized techn...

A New Modified Artificial Bee Colony Algorithm with Exponential Function Adaptive Steps.

As one of the most recent popular swarm intelligence techniques, artificial bee colony algorithm is poor at exploitation and has some defects such as slow search speed, poor population diversity, the stagnation in the working process, and being trapped into the local optimal solution. The purpose of this paper is to develop a new modified artificial bee colony algorithm in view of the initial popu...

Non-Hermitian localization in biological networks.

We explore the spectra and localization properties of the N-site banded one-dimensional non-Hermitian random matrices that arise naturally in sparse n...

MicrO: an ontology of phenotypic and metabolic characters, assays, and culture media found in prokaryotic taxonomic descriptions.

BACKGROUND: MicrO is an ontology of microbiological terms, including prokaryotic qualities and processes, material entities (such as cell components),...

Ecological systems as computer networks: Long distance sea dispersal as a communication medium between island plant populations.

Ecological systems are known to exchange genetic material through animal species migration and seed dispersal for plants. Isolated plant populations h...

Dynamics of Viral Abundance and Diversity in a Sphagnum-Dominated Peatland: Temporal Fluctuations Prevail Over Habitat.

Viruses impact microbial activity and carbon cycling in various environments, but their diversity and ecological importance in Sphagnum-peatlands are ...

Diversity and Plant Growth Promoting Capacity of Endophytic Fungi Associated with Halophytic Plants from the West Coast of Korea.

Five halophytic plant species, Suaeda maritima, Limonium tetragonum, Suaeda australis, Phragmites australis, and Suaeda glauca Bunge, which are native...

Bioinspired Intelligent Algorithm and Its Applications for Mobile Robot Control: A Survey.

Bioinspired intelligent algorithm (BIA) is a kind of intelligent computing method, which is with a more lifelike biological working mechanism than oth...

Particle Swarm Optimization with Double Learning Patterns.

Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) is an effective tool in solving optimization problems. However, PSO usually suffers from the premature convergence d...

Machine learning to assist risk-of-bias assessments in systematic reviews.

BACKGROUND: Risk-of-bias assessments are now a standard component of systematic reviews. At present, reviewers need to manually identify relevant part...

Genomics and Machine Learning for Taxonomy Consensus: The Mycobacterium tuberculosis Complex Paradigm.

Infra-species taxonomy is a prerequisite to compare features such as virulence in different pathogen lineages. Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex taxo...

Unsupervised lineage-based characterization of primate precursors reveals high proliferative and morphological diversity in the OSVZ.

Generation of the primate cortex is characterized by the diversity of cortical precursors and the complexity of their lineage relationships. Recent st...

Modeling of Beta Diversity in Tunisian Waters: Predictions Using Generalized Dissimilarity Modeling and Bioregionalisation Using Fuzzy Clustering.

Spatial patterns of beta diversity are a major focus of ecology. They can be especially valuable in conservation planning. In this study, we used a ge...

RobotReviewer: evaluation of a system for automatically assessing bias in clinical trials.

OBJECTIVE: To develop and evaluate RobotReviewer, a machine learning (ML) system that automatically assesses bias in clinical trials. From a (PDF-form...

Experimental design strategy: weak reinforcement leads to increased hit rates and enhanced chemical diversity.

High Throughput Screening (HTS) is a common approach in life sciences to discover chemical matter that modulates a biological target or phenotype. How...

Using support vector machine ensembles for target audience classification on Twitter.

The vast amount and diversity of the content shared on social media can pose a challenge for any business wanting to use it to identify potential cust...

A Programmer-Interpreter Neural Network Architecture for Prefrontal Cognitive Control.

There is wide consensus that the prefrontal cortex (PFC) is able to exert cognitive control on behavior by biasing processing toward task-relevant inf...

Improving propensity score estimators' robustness to model misspecification using super learner.

The consistency of propensity score (PS) estimators relies on correct specification of the PS model. The PS is frequently estimated using main-effects...

Variability of automated carotid intima-media thickness measurements by novice operators.

Carotid intima-media thickness (C-IMT) measurements provide a non-invasive assessment of subclinical atherosclerosis. The aim of the study was to asse...

Evaluating performance bias in face-to-BMI vision transformer models across diverse human populations

Computer vision models that estimate body mass index (BMI) from facial features offer a non-invasive, low-cost alternative to physical measurement, wi...