IntroductionNortheast China Tiger and Leopard National Park is home to the largest and only breeding family of wild tigers and leopards in China.The mining of open-pit gold and copper mines in the core zone might affect the surrounding forest ecosystem and the survival activities of wild tigers and leopards.MethodsIn order to understand the impacts
Machine learning methods for protein function prediction are urgently needed, especially now that a substantial fraction of known sequences remains unannotated despite the extensive use of functional assignments based on sequence similarity.One major bottleneck supervised learning faces in protein function prediction is the structured, multi-label
The burden of deciding the fate of the supernumerary human embryo created in vitro in the context of Assisted Reproductive Technologies rests on the beneficiary couples or individuals who conceived the parental project.The beneficiaries must also take on the responsibility of choosing whether to donate surplus embryos either to others or to scienti
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