Occupational exposure to arylamines such as benzidine, 2-naphthylamine, and 4-aminobiphenyl is associated with exceptionally elevated risks of bladder cancer (up to 100-fold or more). In one plant, all 15 workers involved in distilling naphthylamine developed bladder cancer, suggesting that for high levels of exposure to potent carcinogens individual susceptibility is irrelevant. More recently,...

Cross-lingual information extraction is the task of distilling facts from foreign language (e.g. Chinese text) into representations in another language that is preferred by the user (e.g. English tuples). Conventional pipeline solutions decompose the task as machine translation followed by information extraction (or vice versa). We propose a joint solution with a neural sequence model, and show...

For the past century, the total synthesis of natural products has served as the flagship of chemical synthesis and the principal driving force for discovering new chemical reactivity, evaluating physical organic theories, testing the power of existing synthetic methods, and enabling biology and medicine. This perspective article seeks to examine this time-honored and highly demanding art, disti...

Abstract This article analyzes the implications of financial sector’s recent adoption artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML). It identifies advantages these technologies in terms fraud protection, cost savings, efficiency, while also highlighting worries about conventional institutions’, such as banks, insurance reinsurance institutions, inability to compete with Fintech firms. ...

In the field of character animation, this principle is classically associated with “The Dot and the Line” [Jones, 1965], in which complex narrative and character development are implemented using two very simple characters, a dot and a line (Figure 10-1). All expression is performed in motion, timing and staging alone. While technically impressive, this film is also often quoted for distilling ...