Environmental DNA metabarcoding reveals a vast genetic diversity of marine eukaryotes. Yet, most of the metabarcoding data remain unassigned due to the paucity of reference databases. This is particularly true for the deep-sea meiofauna and eukaryotic microbiota, whose hidden diversity is largely unexplored. Here, we tackle this issue by using unique DNA signatures to classify unknown metabarcodes ...

The European Union has introduced stricter provisions for medical devices under the new Medical Device Regulation (MDR). The MDR increases requirements for clinical trial testing for many devices before they can legally be placed on the market and extends requirements for rigorous clinical surveillance of benefits and harms to the entire life cycle of devices. New “expert panels” have been established ...

<p>The field of artificial intelligence recently witnessed remarkable growth, leading to the development of complex deep learning models that perform exceptionally across various domains. However, these developments bring forth critical issues. Deep learning models are vulnerable to inheriting and potentially exacerbating biases present in their training data. Moreover, the complexity of these models ...

Natasha Merkulova and Aleksey Chupov's Captain Volkonogov Escaped offers a gripping portrayal of life in Stalin's Soviet Union. This article discusses the film's evocation of an oppressive social structure and its pertinence as a stimulus and means to comprehending and critically appraising authoritarianism in contemporary times. The film pays close attention to micro-level dynamics of intimidation, ...

Im Folgenden möchte ich die Hauptthese des Buches, „dass das sinnvolle Leben am intuitiv plausibelsten durch eine Theorie beschrieben werden kann, die sich als ‚deontologischer Objektivismus‘ bezeichnen lässt“ (P 1-2), kritisch beleuchten. Vor allem drei Fragen sollen meine Diskussion leiten: Was genau beinhaltet der von Markus Rüther vorgeschlagene „deontologische Objektivismus“? Kann er überzeugen? ...

Photodynamic therapy (PDT) today is an established treatment for a variety of cancers as well as various dermatological conditions, macular degeneration and bacterial and other infections. Treatment involves the administration of a photosensitizer, typically a porphyrin, followed by irradiation with light. The photoexcited sensitizer transfers its excess energy to oxygen in the affected tissue, ...

Achieving social, environmental, and economic sustainability has become the aim of nations and organizations across the globe. One of the attempts to operationalize sustainability is through the integration of the sustainable development goals in coastal governance. However, the perceived characteristics of challenges for sustainability, and thus also solutions to them, may differ depending on the ...

The article discusses challenges facing the bidirectional North Saami–Norwegian e-dictionary Neahttadigisánit when used as a production dictionary, based upon a set of writing and translation tasks presented to second term students and logging of their dictionary use. The dictio¬nary's ability to both analyse and generate Norwegian and Saami forms is of great help to the students. The dictionary ...

The incidence and prevalence of breast cancer (BC) are increasing worldwide. The reasons for this trend are partly unknown. BC has several well documented modifiable and non-modifiable risk factors. The only known, natural protective factors are breastfeeding and parity. The current paradigm is that the protective effect of parity is mediated by permanent genomic changes in a woman’s breast tissue ...

Neural nets have, during the last few years, given us both an improved Google Translate, better search algorithms, better speech technology and doubtless many other things. The approach dominates current language technology to the extent that no other approach is visible. Being data driven, the hidden assumption behind this approach when used in proofing tools is that the language is used correctly ...