Fête royale, fête religieuse, fête populaire

RNA Royale

Throughout the modern history of biology, DNA has been given a front-row seat. Many biology textbooks and courses present the RNA molecule as an accessory to the DNA molecule. Although we take the roles of RNA for granted, its history is not as well known as that of DNA. Perhaps it was long overdue for a stellar RNA researcher such as James Darnell to undertake such a challenge. The book he has...

Resolving the Battle Royale between Information Retrieval and Information Science

We propose an approach to help resolve the “battle royale” between the information retrieval and information science communities. The information retrieval side favors the Cranfield paradigm of batch evaluation, criticized by the information science side for its neglect of the user. The information science side favors user studies, criticized by the information retrieval side for their scale an...

As a Critical Nutrient for the Moose of Isle Royale

High-Accuracy Phrase Translation Acquisition Through Battle-Royale Selection

In this paper, we report on an unsupervised greedy-style process for acquiring phrase translations from sentence-aligned parallel corpora. Thanks to innovative selection strategies, this process can acquire multiple translations without size criteria, i.e. phrases can have several translations, can be of any size, and their size is not considered when selecting their translations. Even though t...

Wolves, moose, and tree rings on isle royale.

Investigation of tree growth in Isle Royale National Park in Michigan revealed the influence of herbivores and carnivores on plants in an intimately linked food chain. Plant growth rates were regulated by cycles in animal density and responded to annual changes in primary productivity only when released from herbivory by wolf predation. Isle Royale's dendrochronology complements a rich literatu...