The miRBase is the official miRNA repository which keeps the annotation updated on newly discovered miRNAs: it is also used as a reference for the design of miRNA profiling platforms. Nomenclature ambiguities generated by loosely updated platforms and design errors lead to incompatibilities among platforms, even from the same vendor. Published miRNA lists are thus generated with different profi...

Let f and g be transcendental entire functions, each with a bounded set of singular values, and suppose that g ◦ φ = ψ ◦ f , where φ, ψ : C → C are affine. We show that the escaping sets of f and g have the same Hausdorff dimension. Using a result of the second author, we deduce that there exists a family of transcendental entire functions for which the escaping set has Hausdorff dimension equa...

At the Congresses on Tropical Medicine in Rio de Janeiro, several investigators have insisted on the problems connected mith the behaviour of Anopheles after contact with DDT. Though populations showing different responses to DDT could be distinguished by the Excite-Repellency Box Mode1 CIPS, nothing was Itnown wi,th regard tn the cause of these dserences. TO eluc.idate these problems we carrie...

We analyze the variance of stochastic gradients along negative curvature directions in certain nonconvex machine learning models and show that stochastic gradients exhibit a strong component along these directions. Furthermore, we show that contrary to the case of isotropic noise this variance is proportional to the magnitude of the corresponding eigenvalues and not decreasing in the dimensiona...