Plasmid Segregation: Birds of a Feather Try Not To Flock Together

Cohesinopathies of a Feather Flock Together

Roberts Syndrome (RBS) and Cornelia de Lange Syndrome (CdLS) are severe developmental maladies that present with nearly an identical suite of multi-spectrum birth defects. Not surprisingly, RBS and CdLS arise from mutations within a single pathway--here involving cohesion. Sister chromatid tethering reactions that comprise cohesion are required for high fidelity chromosome segregation, but cohe...

Birds of a tag flock together

Motivation and context. Recently, extracting knowledge from user-generated social data has attracted a lot of attention. Several works have focused on modeling user-generated tags such as the study of tag clouds [3], cross-floksonomy analysis [7], or the use of tag-driven communities for content search [4] or recommendation [6]. The huge and increasing amount of raw tags and annotations clearly...

Birds of a Feather Flock Together – Local Learning of Mid-level Representations for Fine-grained Recognition

When facing a new object, the human ability for implicitly comparing it to a small set of known objects and analyzing similarities and differences is astonishing due to speed and performance. In this paper, we propose to follow this observation by locally learning mid-level representations and models for every unseen example. Thus, our approach is complementary to the standard procedure of trai...

Birds of a ‘‘bad’’ feather flock together: The Dark Triad and mate choice

Previous research on the Dark Triad traits (i.e., Machiavellianism, psychopathy, and narcissism) has focused solely on the role the Dark Triad traits played in mate choice of actors. The current study (N = 336) extends this by manipulating the apparent levels of Dark Triad traits in targets and correlating mate choice in these targets with individual differences in the Dark Triad traits in acto...

Do Birds of a Feather Really Flock Together? Ideational Homophily and Development Policy Influence