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Improving the taxonomy of fossil pollen using convolutional neural networks and superresolution microscopy.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Taxonomic resolution is a major challenge in palynology, largely limiting the ecological and evolutionary interpretations possible with deep-time fossil pollen data. We present an approach for fossil pollen analysis that uses optical superresolution ...

The African wildlife ontology tutorial ontologies.

Journal of biomedical semantics
BACKGROUND: Most tutorial ontologies focus on illustrating one aspect of ontology development, notably language features and automated reasoners, but ignore ontology development factors, such as emergent modelling guidelines and ontological principle...

Seroprevalence of antibodies for pertussis and diphtheria among people leaving or entering China: a cross-sectional study.

Journal of infection in developing countries
INTRODUCTION: Despite high population immunity, pertussis remains one of the leading causes of vaccine-preventable deaths worldwide. The aim of this study was to determine the seroprevalence of IgG antibodies to pertussis toxin (PT) and diphtheria am...

Insights and approaches using deep learning to classify wildlife.

Scientific reports
The implementation of intelligent software to identify and classify objects and individuals in visual fields is a technology of growing importance to operatives in many fields, including wildlife conservation and management. To non-experts, the metho...

Predictive pollen-based biome modeling using machine learning.

PloS one
This paper investigates suitability of supervised machine learning classification methods for classification of biomes using pollen datasets. We assign modern pollen samples from Africa and Arabia to five biome classes using a previously published Af...

In silico toxicity profiling of natural product compound libraries from African flora with anti-malarial and anti-HIV properties.

Computational biology and chemistry
This paper describes an analysis of the diversity and chemical toxicity assessment of three chemical libraries of compounds from African flora (the p-ANAPL, AfroMalariaDb, and Afro-HIV), respectively containing compounds exhibiting activities against...

An expert system model for mapping tropical wetlands and peatlands reveals South America as the largest contributor.

Global change biology
Wetlands are important providers of ecosystem services and key regulators of climate change. They positively contribute to global warming through their greenhouse gas emissions, and negatively through the accumulation of organic material in histosols...

Conception of an Intelligent Chatbot for Creation of an African Virtual Patient.

Studies in health technology and informatics
Medical and paramedical training is still a major issue in Africa, given the growing needs that contrast with the shortage of teachers, hospitals and educational facilities. The aim of the present work is to design an artificial intelligence that ena...