BACKGROUND Bioassay data analysis continues to be an essential, routine, yet challenging task in modern drug discovery and chemical biology research. The challenge is to infer reliable knowledge from big and noisy data. Some aspects of this problem are general with solutions informed by existing and emerging data science best practices. Some aspects are domain specific, and rely on expertise in...

BACKGROUND Accurate evaluation of liver fibrosis in patients with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is important to identify patients who may develop complications. The aim of this study was to compare the diagnostic performance of simple non-invasive tests in identifying advanced fibrosis among patients with biopsy-proven NAFLD. METHODS Consecutive patients with biopsy proven NAFLD w...

The combined effect of selenium (Se) foliar spraying and drought was studied for 3 months in two cultivars of potato; Bard and Adora in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Four combinations of treatments were conducted: well-watered plants with and without Se foliar spraying, and drought exposed plants with and without Se foliar spraying. Net photosynthesis, transpiration rate, quantum yield of photosystem II...

Rank aggregation, that is, combining several ranking functions (called base rankers) to get aggregated, usually stronger rankings of a given set of items, is encountered in many disciplines. Most methods in the literature assume that base rankers of interest are equally reliable. It is very common in practice, however, that some rankers are more informative and reliable than others. It is desir...

It is widely believed that speakers adapt their speech to meet the comprehension needs of their listener. Yet recent work in face-to-face communication has shown that word articulation and the design of referring expressions are insensitive to certain aspects of listener knowledge (Bard et al., 2000; Bard & Aylett, 2001). Word articulation and referential form were investigated in two studies. ...

indian mustard is one of the most drought tolerant crops within brassica genus which could be used in semi dry areas of iran. 20 cultivars and lines of indian mustard were studied as complete blocks design with three replications in two different humidity regimes in oroumieh research station during 2013-2014 growing season. analysis of variance showed that the most studied agronomic characteris...