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University of Arizona
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About: University of Arizona is a education organization based out in Tucson, Arizona, United States. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Galaxy. The organization has 63805 authors who have published 155998 publications receiving 6854915 citations. The organization is also known as: UA & U of A.
Topics: Population, Galaxy, Star formation, Redshift, Planet
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TL;DR: Insect heritable symbionts provide some of the extremes of cellular genomes, including the smallest and the fastest evolving, raising new questions about the limits of evolution of life.
Abstract: Insect heritable symbionts have proven to be ubiquitous, based on molecular screening of various insect lineages. Recently, molecular and experimental approaches have yielded an immensely richer understanding of their diverse biological roles, resulting in a burgeoning research literature. Increasingly, commonalities and intermediates are being discovered between categories of symbionts once considered distinct: obligate mutualists that provision nutrients, facultative mutualists that provide protection against enemies or stress, and symbionts such as Wolbachia that manipulate reproductive systems. Among the most farreaching impacts of widespread heritable symbiosis is that it may promote speciation by increasing reproductive and ecological isolation of host populations, and it effectively provides a means for transfer of genetic information among host lineages. In addition, insect symbionts provide some of the extremes of cellular genomes, including the smallest and the fastest evolving, raising new questions about the limits of evolution of life.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a sociologically grounded account of change emphasizing the channels along which practices flow and argue for closer theoretical attention to why practices diffuse at different rates and via different pathways in different settings.
Abstract: There has been rapid growth in the study of diffusion across organizations and social movements in recent years, fueled by interest in institutional arguments and in network and dynamic analysis. This research develops a sociologically grounded account of change emphasizing the channels along which practices flow. Our review focuses on characteristic lines of argument, emphasizing the structural and cultural logic of diffusion processes. We argue for closer theoretical attention to why practices diffuse at different rates and via different pathways in different settings. Three strategies for further development are proposed: broader comparative research designs, closer inspection of the content of social relations between collective actors, and more attention to diffusion industries run by the media and communities of experts.
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10 Aug 2015TL;DR: This work links disparate impact to a measure of classification accuracy that while known, has received relatively little attention and proposes a test for disparate impact based on how well the protected class can be predicted from the other attributes.
Abstract: What does it mean for an algorithm to be biased? In U.S. law, unintentional bias is encoded via disparate impact, which occurs when a selection process has widely different outcomes for different groups, even as it appears to be neutral. This legal determination hinges on a definition of a protected class (ethnicity, gender) and an explicit description of the process.When computers are involved, determining disparate impact (and hence bias) is harder. It might not be possible to disclose the process. In addition, even if the process is open, it might be hard to elucidate in a legal setting how the algorithm makes its decisions. Instead of requiring access to the process, we propose making inferences based on the data it uses.We present four contributions. First, we link disparate impact to a measure of classification accuracy that while known, has received relatively little attention. Second, we propose a test for disparate impact based on how well the protected class can be predicted from the other attributes. Third, we describe methods by which data might be made unbiased. Finally, we present empirical evidence supporting the effectiveness of our test for disparate impact and our approach for both masking bias and preserving relevant information in the data. Interestingly, our approach resembles some actual selection practices that have recently received legal scrutiny.
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01 Jan 1985TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compare sandstone compositions by grouping diverse grain types into a few operational categories having broad genetic significance and displaying compositional fields associated with different provenances on standard triangular diagrams.
Abstract: Detrital modes of sandstone suites primarily reflect the different tectonic settings of provenance terranes, although various other sedimentological factors also influence sandstone compositions. Comparisons of sandstone compositions are aided by grouping diverse grain types into a few operational categories having broad genetic significance. Compositional fields associated with different provenances can then be displayed on standard triangular diagrams.
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Name | H-index | Papers | Citations |
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Simon D. M. White | 189 | 795 | 231645 |
Julie E. Buring | 186 | 950 | 132967 |
David H. Weinberg | 183 | 700 | 171424 |
Richard Peto | 183 | 683 | 231434 |
Xiaohui Fan | 183 | 878 | 168522 |
Dennis S. Charney | 179 | 802 | 122408 |
Daniel J. Eisenstein | 179 | 672 | 151720 |
David Haussler | 172 | 488 | 224960 |
Carlos S. Frenk | 165 | 799 | 140345 |
Jian-Kang Zhu | 161 | 550 | 105551 |
Tobin J. Marks | 159 | 1621 | 111604 |
Todd Adams | 154 | 1866 | 143110 |
Jane A. Cauley | 151 | 914 | 99933 |
Wei Zheng | 151 | 1929 | 120209 |
Daniel L. Schacter | 149 | 592 | 90148 |