A bstract An important class of techniques for resonant anomaly detection in high energy physics builds models that can distinguish between reference and target datasets, where only the latter has appreciable signal. Such techniques, including Classification Without Labels (CWoLa) Simulation Assisted Likelihood-free Anomaly Detection (SALAD) rely on a single dataset. They cannot take advantage ...

ONE of the nicest things anyone ever said about our workwas ina(necessarily) anonymousgrant review from the early 1990s in which the author commented that our lab had contributed greatly to moving the study of circadian rhythms ‘‘out of the era of spoon-bending.’’ Some years later Bob Metzenberg, who always cherished a well-turned phrase, fessed up to having written this, and it is easy to see ...

Saccharomyces bailii was isolated from two-thirds of the spoiled mayonnaise and salad dressing samples examined. Most of the rest were spoiled by Lactobacillus fructivorans. However, one sample contained large numbers of both S. bailii and L. plantarum. Two of the spoiled samples also contained small numbers of bacilli. Bacillus subtilis, B. pumilis, B. polymyxa, B. megaterium, and B. lichenifo...

This study examined the effect of dialect variation on children’s spelling by using devoicing of final /d/ in African American Vernacular English (AAVE) as a test case. In line with the linguistic interference hypothesis, African American 6-year-olds were significantly poorer at spelling the final d of words such as salad than non-African American students after their spelling performance on ot...

Campylobacter outbreaks are rarely detected despite Campylobacter being the most common food-borne illness notified to public health authorities. We report a prolonged outbreak of Campylobacter occurring over a three month period at a training facility. Seventy-eight cases were detected, 16 of which were confirmed Campylobacter infections. In seven affected groups of people using the facility, ...

The life sciences have a wealth of data resources with a wide range of overlapping content. Key repositories, such as UniProt for protein data or Entrez Gene for gene data, are well known and their content easily discovered through search engines. However, there is a long-tail of bespoke datasets with important content that are not so prominent in search results. Building on the success of Sche...

We investigate the use of language in food writing, specifically on restaurant menus and in customer reviews. Our approach is to build predictive models of concrete external variables, such as restaurant menu prices. We make use of a dataset of menus and customer reviews for thousands of restaurants in several U.S. cities. By focusing on prediction tasks and doing our analysis at scale, our met...

This paper describes a method of discriminating ambiguous names that relies upon features found in corpora of a more abundant language. In particular, we discriminate ambiguous names in Bulgarian, Romanian, and Spanish corpora using information derived from much larger quantities of English data. We also mix together occurrences of the ambiguous name found in English with the occurrences of the...

at the wedding and sat down to the banquet in the afternoon ; of these 110 fewer than forty were subsequently seized with symptoms of irritant poisoning, the time of onset varying from four to sixteen hours after the meal. Five of the persons so attacked had died up to the date when the facts were placed 011 record, and as that was only some ten days after the occurrence, it is possible that ot...

BACKGROUND There is a possibility for the presence of Helicobacter pylori in vegetables due to their close contact with polluted water, soil and feces. OBJECTIVES This study was carried out to detect the presence of H. pylori in vegetables and salads in Iran. MATERIALS AND METHODS In total, 460 vegetable and salad samples were collected and transferred immediately to the laboratory. All sam...