The key to an accurate method of protein structure prediction is the development of an effective discriminatory function. Knowledge-based discriminatory functions extract parameters from statistical analysis of experimentally determined protein structures. We assess how the quality of the protein structures used for compiling statistics affects the performance of a residue-specific all-atom pro...

In the present investigation, 49 Aspergillus fumigatus isolates obtained from four nosocomial outbreaks were typed by Afut1 restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) analysis and three PCR-based molecular typing methods: random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) analysis, sequence-specific DNA primer (SSDP) analysis, and polymorphic microsatellite markers (PMM) analysis. The typing methods ...

the debate over the discriminatory contracts is one of the highly contentious subjects of the competition law in various legal systems. in these contracts the contracting firm, in similar circumstances, unduly discriminates between other contracting parties with respect to the price or the contractual conditions and charge different prices and conditions for the same products. one of the most c...

Weobserve standard transfer learning can improve prediction accuracies of target tasks at the cost of lowering their prediction fairness – a phenomenon we named discriminatory transfer. We examine prediction fairness of a standard hypothesis transfer algorithm and a standardmulti-task learning algorithm, and show they both su er discriminatory transfer on the real-world Communities and Crime da...