Let's Keep the Pound Around: A Retort

The Retort Courteous

Lets keep it simple: using simple architectures to outperform deeper architectures

In recent years, all winning architectures that achieved state of the art results have been very deep and had parameters ranging from tens to hundreds of millions. While an optimal depth has yet to be discovered, it is known that these deep architectures are far from being optimal. Very deep and heavy architecture such as VGGNet, GoogleNet, ResNet and the likes, are very demanding in terms of h...

Keep Me Around: Intron Retention Detection and Analysis

Summary: We present a tool, keepme around (kma), a suite of python scripts and an R package that finds retained introns in RNA-Seq experiments and incorporates biological replicates to reduce the number of false positives when detecting retention events. kma uses the results of existing quantification tools that probabilistically assign multi-mapping reads, thus interfacing easily with transcri...

The Leiden Thrombophilia Study (LETS).

Our study grew from an attempt to solve a controversy. In 1987 protein C antigen level was assessed in a large cohort of healthy blood donors (1). Subjects in this cohort who were heterozygous for protein C deficiency did not suffer from venous thromboembolism. Family studies in four of the protein C deficient individuals showed autosomal inheritance of the defect. These findings seemed in cont...

Assessment of Control Strategy for 500W Retort

A retort is a steam operated “pressure cooker” which is used in the food industry for sterilization. The 500W retort is a lab-size unit donated to the California State University, Fresno Food Processing Laboratory by the FMC Corporation in the summer of 1998. This retort was developed two decades ago and intended for small batches and versatile food containers such as jars, pouches, cans, and b...