BACKGROUND There is an increasing need for quantitative technologies suitable for molecular detection in a variety of settings for applications including food traceability and monitoring of genetically modified (GM) crops and their products through the food processing chain. Conventional molecular diagnostics utilising real-time polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) and fluorescence-based determin...

As the technology for building knowledge based systems has matured, important lessons have been learned about the relationship between the architec­ ture of a system and the nature of the problems it is intended to solve. We are implementing a knowledge engineering tool called BART that is designed with these lessons in mind. BART is a Bayesian reason­ ing tool that makes belief networks and ot...

Generative commonsense reasoning which aims to empower machines generate sentences with the capacity of over a set concepts is critical bottleneck for text generation. Even state-of-the-art pre-trained language generation models struggle at this task and often produce implausible anomalous sentences. One reason that they rarely consider incorporating knowledge graph can provide rich relational ...

Let A and B be hypergraphs with a common vertex set V . In a (p, q,A ∪ B) Bart-Moe game, the players take turns selecting previously unclaimed vertices of V . The game ends when every vertex has been claimed by one of the players. The first player, called Bart (to denote his role as Breaker and Avoider together), selects p vertices per move and the second player, called Moe (to denote his role ...

Flow network models can capture the underlying physics and operational constraints of many networked systems including power grid transportation water networks. However, analyzing reliability using computationally expensive flow-based faces substantial challenges, especially for rare events. Existing actively trained meta-models, which present a new promising direction in analysis, are not appl...

Signal transducers and activators of transcription (STATs) mediate cell proliferation, differentiation and survival in immune responses, hematopoiesis, neurogenesis and other biological processes. STAT3, for example, is involved in the epithelial-mesenchymal transition during gastrulation, organogenesis, wound healing and cancer progression. STAT activity is regulated by a variety of mechanisms...

Rehabilitation can improve cognitive deficits observed in patients with traumatic brain injury (TBI). However, despite rehabilitation, the ability of making a choice often remains impaired. Risk taking is a daily activity involving numerous cognitive processes subserved by a complex neural network. In this work we investigated risk taking using the Balloon Analogue Risk Task (BART) in patients ...