Associating a life-threatening crisis with geographic locality can stigmatize people from that area. However, such strategy may reduce the public blame attributed to government because perceived foreign threat establishes scapegoat, which transfers blame. In context of COVID-19 pandemic, we investigated whether “Chinese Virus” label placed on has elicited opposition Chinese immigrants and reduc...

Classification of electrocardiographic (ECG) signals can be deteriorated by the presence in the training set of mislabeled samples. To alleviate this issue we propose a new approach that aims at assisting the human user (cardiologist) in his/her work of labeling by removing in an automatic way the training samples with potential mislabeling problems. The proposed method is based on a genetic op...

In the article cited above, the authors discovered an inadvertent error in Fig. 4A (bottom right panel). The micrograph in the 2008 article for the 1Ad-Cont-siRNA condition is a duplicate, shifted slightly, of the control micrograph above it in the top right panel (nontransduced condition). This error arose through mislabeling of the original micrographs. Figure 4A is reproduced below with the ...

The Food and Drug Administration is responsible for regulating the use of polyphosphates in seafood. Sodium tripolyphosphate is the most commonly used polyphosphate in the processed shrimp industry; and current regulations limit its use in accordance with Good Manufacturing Practice. The potential exists for economic fraud through mislabeling or excessive use of tripolyphosphate. At this point;...

Seafood mislabeling distorts the true abundance of fish in the sea, defrauds consumers, and can also cause unwanted exposure to harmful pollutants. By combining genetic data with analyses of total mercury content, we have investigated how species substitutions and fishery-stock substitutions obscure mercury contamination in Patagonian toothfish (Dissostichus eleginoides), also known as "Chilean...