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<p>Non-destructive three-dimensional imaging of a fixed human lung tissue biopsy was captured using an X-ray micro-Computed Tomography (μCT) system optimised for soft tissues (3D render in grey). The μCT images were registered with immunofluorescence sections taken from the same lung tissue and used to semi-automatically identify and segment the blood vessels (red) and the airway epithelium (blue). <a href="https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.211067">https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.211067</a>.</p>

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The unexpected narrowness of eccentric debris rings: a sign of eccentricity during the protoplanetary disc phase

Grant M. Kennedy

This paper shows that the eccentric debris rings seen around the stars Fomalhaut and HD 202628 are narrower than expected in the standard eccentric planet perturbation scenario (sometimes referred to as ‘pericentre glow’). The standard scenario posits an ...Read more

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Peer-to-peer loan acceptance and default prediction with artificial intelligence

J. D. Turiel and
T. Aste

Logistic regression (LR) and support vector machine algorithms, together with linear and nonlinear deep neural networks (DNNs), are applied to lending data in order to replicate lender acceptance of loans and predict the likelihood of default of issued ...Read more

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An unethical optimization principle

If an artificial intelligence aims to maximize risk-adjusted return, then under mild conditions it is disproportionately likely to pick an unethical strategy unless the objective function allows sufficiently for this risk. Even if the proportion η of ...Read more

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Presence of mismatches between diagnostic PCR assays and coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 genome

Kashif Aziz Khan and
Peter Cheung

Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2; initially named as 2019-nCoV) is responsible for the recent COVID-19 pandemic and polymerase chain reaction (PCR) is the current standard method for its diagnosis from patient samples. This ...Read more

The unexpected narrowness of eccentric debris rings: a sign of eccentricity during the protoplanetary disc phase

Grant M. Kennedy

Peer-to-peer loan acceptance and default prediction with artificial intelligence

J. D. Turiel and
T. Aste

An unethical optimization principle

Presence of mismatches between diagnostic PCR assays and coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 genome

Kashif Aziz Khan and
Peter Cheung

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Royal Society Open Science

Royal Society Open Science is a new open journal publishing high-quality original research across the entire range of science on the basis of objective peer-review. The journal covers the entire range of science and mathematics and allows the Society to publish all the high-quality work it receives without the usual restrictions on scope, length or impact.

13 February 2019
Violent video game engagement is not associated with adolescents' aggressive behaviour: evidence from a registered report
- Andrew K. Przybylski and
- Netta Weinstein
22 March 2017
Challenges and opportunities associated with waste management in India
- Sunil Kumar,
- Stephen R. Smith,
- Geoff Fowler,
- Costas Velis,
- S. Jyoti Kumar,
- Shashi Arya,
- Rena,
- Rakesh Kumar, and
- Christopher Cheeseman
1 December 2020
Vitamin D and COVID-19: evidence and recommendations for supplementation
- George Griffin,
- Martin Hewison,
- Julian Hopkin,
- Rose Kenny,
- Richard Quinton,
- Jonathan Rhodes,
- Sreedhar Subramanian and
- David Thickett
14 October 2020
Susceptibility to misinformation about COVID-19 around the world

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1 December 2014
The deep sea is a major sink for microplastic debris
- Lucy C. Woodall,
- Anna Sanchez-Vidal,
- Miquel Canals,
- Gordon L.J. Paterson,
- Rachel Coppock,
- Victoria Sleight,
- Antonio Calafat,
- Alex D. Rogers,
- Bhavani E. Narayanaswamy, and
- Richard C. Thompson
1 July 2015
MiFish, a set of universal PCR primers for metabarcoding environmental DNA from fishes: detection of more than 230 subtropical marine species
- M. Miya,
- Y. Sato,
- T. Fukunaga,
- T. Sado,
- J. Y. Poulsen,
- K. Sato,
- T. Minamoto,
- S. Yamamoto,
- H. Yamanaka,
- H. Araki,
- M. Kondoh, and
- W. Iwasaki
1 January 2017
Thioflavin T as an amyloid dye: fibril quantification, optimal concentration and effect on aggregation
- Christine Xue,
- Tiffany Yuwen Lin,
- Dennis Chang, and
- Zhefeng Guo
1 October 2016
Bushmeat hunting and extinction risk to the world's mammals
- William J. Ripple,
- Katharine Abernethy,
- Matthew G. Betts,
- Guillaume Chapron,
- Rodolfo Dirzo,
- Mauro Galetti,
- Taal Levi,
- Peter A. Lindsey,
- David W. Macdonald,
- Brian Machovina,
- Thomas M. Newsome,
- Carlos A. Peres,
- Arian D. Wallach,
- Christopher Wolf, and
- Hillary Young
5 December 2018
Determining consistent prognostic biomarkers of overall survival and vascular invasion in hepatocellular carcinoma
- Otília Menyhárt,
- Ádám Nagy and
- Balázs Győrffy

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