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RECOD Titans at ISIC Challenge 2017

Our team has worked on melanoma classification since early 2014 [1], and has employed deep learning with transfer learning for that task since 2015 [2]. Recently, the community has started to move from traditional techniques towards deep learning, following the general trend of computer vision [3]. Deep learning poses a challenge for medical applications, due to the need of very large training ...

New research journals are needed and can compete with titans

This editorial marks the starting point for a new journal, Temperature. This latest addition to the Landes Bioscience collection of research journals will be a multidisciplinary publication focused on the interactions between living matter and temperature. The first question, however, that the reader is likely to have is not about the journal’s thematic boundaries. The first question is likely ...

Exotic Atoms and Exotic Nuclei

APOBEC3 versus Retroviruses, Immunity versus Invasion: Clash of the Titans

Since the identification of APOBEC3G (A3G) as a potent restriction factor of HIV-1, a tremendous amount of effort has led to a broadened understanding of both A3G and the APOBEC3 (A3) family to which it belongs. In spite of the fine-tuned viral counterattack to A3 activity, in the form of the HIV-1 Vif protein, enthusiasm for leveraging the Vif : A3G axis as a point of clinical intervention rem...

Clash of the Titans: Does Internet Use Reduce Television Viewing?