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1,144 claims from 719 papers are on the record. 42 have been checked so far; the other 1,102 have no check with a result yet.

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1,102 claims from 680 papers, showing 241–260 of 680

  1. Medicine

    arXiv cond-mat/0207194

    arXiv cond-mat/0207194: OpenAlex has no record of it

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    1. Unchecked“We show the existence of an intermediate phase in the satisfiable region, where the proliferation of metastable states is at the origin of the slowdown of search algorithms.”
  2. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

    Global Signal Regression Strengthens Association between Resting-State Functional Connectivity and Behavior

    Li, Kong, Liégeois et al. · NeuroImage · 2019

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    1. Unchecked“By applying the variance component model to the Brain Genomics Superstruct Project (GSP), we found that behavioral variance explained by whole-brain RSFC increased by an average of 47% across 23 behavioral measures after GSR.”
    2. Unchecked“GSR improved behavioral prediction accuracies by an average of 64% and 12% in the GSP and HCP datasets respectively.”
  3. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Machine Learning in Bioinformatics

    Biological structure and function emerge from scaling unsupervised learning to 250 million protein sequences

    Rives, Meier, Sercu et al. · bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · 2019

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    1. Unchecked“The learned representation space has a multi-scale organization reflecting structure from the level of biochemical properties of amino acids to remote homology of proteins.”
    2. Unchecked“Information about secondary and tertiary structure is encoded in the representations and can be identified by linear projections.”
  4. Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Fiscal Policies and Political Economy

    The Impact of High and Growing Government Debt on Economic Growth: An Empirical Investigation for the Euro Area

    Checherita-Westphal and Rother · SSRN Electronic Journal · 2010

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    1. Unchecked“It finds a non-linear impact of debt on growth with a turning point — beyond which the government debt-to-GDP ratio has a deleterious impact on long-term growth — at about 90-100% of GDP.”
    2. Unchecked“At the same time, there is evidence that the annual change of the public debt ratio and the budget deficit-to-GDP ratio are negatively and linearly associated with per-capita GDP growth.”
  5. Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Fiscal Policies and Political Economy

    Public debt and economic growth in advanced economies: A survey

    Panizza and Presbitero · Zeitschrift für schweizerische Statistik und Volkswirtschaft/Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Volkswirtschaft und Statistik/Swiss journal of economics and statistics · 2013

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    1. Unchecked“While many papers have found a negative correlation between debt and growth, our reading of the empirical literature is that there is no paper that can make a strong case for a causal relationship going from debt to economic growth.”
  6. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

    Object-vector coding in the medial entorhinal cortex

    Høydal, Skytøen, Andersson, Moser and Moser · Nature · 2019

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    1. Unchecked“Here we show that a large fraction of medial entorhinal cortex neurons fire specifically when mice are at given distances and directions from spatially confined objects.”
    2. Unchecked“These 'object-vector cells' are tuned equally to a spectrum of discrete objects, irrespective of their location in the test arena, as well as to a broad range of dimensions and shapes, from point-like objects to extended surfaces.”
  7. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

    Influence of boundary removal on the spatial representations of the medial entorhinal cortex

    Savelli, Yoganarasimha and Knierim · Hippocampus · 2008

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    1. Unchecked“A number of cells that resembled classic hippocampal place cells in the small box were revealed to be grid cells in the larger box.”
    2. Unchecked“Remapping of the spatial response in the area corresponding to the small box after the removal of its walls was prominent in most spatially modulated cells.”
  8. Earth and Planetary Sciences › Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations

    Can Machines Learn to Predict Weather? Using Deep Learning to Predict Gridded 500‐hPa Geopotential Height From Historical Weather Data

    Weyn, Durran and Caruana · Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems · 2019

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    1. Unchecked“At forecast lead times up to 3 days, CNNs trained to predict only 500‐hPa geopotential height easily outperform persistence, climatology, and the dynamics‐based barotropic vorticity model, but do not beat an operational full‐physics weather prediction model.”
    2. Unchecked“Our best performing CNN does a good job of capturing the climatology and annual variability of 500‐hPa heights and is capable of forecasting realistic atmospheric states at lead times of 14 days.”
  9. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

    Mitigating head motion artifact in functional connectivity MRI

    Ćirić, Rosen, Erus et al. · Nature Protocols · 2018

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    1. Unchecked“This protocol can be used to reduce motion-related variance to near zero in studies of functional connectivity, providing up to a 100-fold improvement over minimal-processing approaches in large datasets.”
  10. Computer Science › Stochastic Gradient Optimization Techniques

    Gradient Descent Provably Optimizes Over-parameterized Neural Networks

    Du, Zhai, Póczos and Singh · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2018

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    1. Unchecked“For an $m$ hidden node shallow neural network with ReLU activation and $n$ training data, we show as long as $m$ is large enough and no two inputs are parallel, randomly initialized gradient descent converges to a globally optimal solution at a linear conver…
  11. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Nuclear Structure and Function

    AI-based structure prediction empowers integrative structural analysis of human nuclear pores

    Mosalaganti, Obarska-Kosińska, Siggel et al. · Science · 2022

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    1. Unchecked“Benchmarking against previous and unpublished x-ray and cryo–electron microscopy structures revealed unprecedented accuracy.”The quote differs from the paper's abstract; the stewards have been told.
    2. Unchecked“These simulations reveal that the NPC scaffold prevents the constriction of the otherwise stable double-membrane fusion pore to small diameters in the absence of membrane tension.”
  12. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Machine Learning in Bioinformatics

    MSA Transformer

    Rao, Liu, Verkuil et al. · bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · 2021

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    1. Unchecked“The performance of the model surpasses current state-of-the-art unsupervised structure learning methods by a wide margin, with far greater parameter efficiency than prior state-of-the-art protein language models.”
  13. Computer Science › Advanced Neural Network Applications

    AMC: AutoML for Model Compression and Acceleration on Mobile Devices

    Yihui, Lin, Liu, Wang, Li and Han · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2018

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    1. Unchecked“Under 4x FLOPs reduction, we achieved 2.7% better accuracy than the handcrafted model compression policy for VGG-16 on ImageNet.”
    2. Unchecked“We applied this automated, push-the-button compression pipeline to MobileNet and achieved 1.81x speedup of measured inference latency on an Android phone and 1.43x speedup on the Titan XP GPU, with only 0.1% loss of ImageNet Top-1 accuracy.”
  14. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

    Grid cells require excitatory drive from the hippocampus

    Bonnevie, Dunn, Fyhn et al. · Nature Neuroscience · 2013

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    1. Unchecked“First, hippocampal inactivation gradually and selectively extinguished the grid pattern.”
  15. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Protein Structure and Dynamics

    Clustering predicted structures at the scale of the known protein universe

    Barrio‐Hernandez, Yeo, Jänes et al. · Nature · 2023

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    1. Unchecked“Using this method, we have clustered all of the structures in the AlphaFold database, identifying 2.30 million non-singleton structural clusters, of which 31% lack annotations representing probable previously undescribed structures.”
    2. Unchecked“Clusters without annotation tend to have few representatives covering only 4% of all proteins in the AlphaFold database.”
  16. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

    Reproducibility of R‐fMRI metrics on the impact of different strategies for multiple comparison correction and sample sizes

    Chen, Bin Lu and Yan · Human Brain Mapping · 2017

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    1. Unchecked“Small sample sizes (e.g., < 80 [40 per group]) not only minimized power (sensitivity < 2%), but also decreased the likelihood that significant results reflect “true” effects (PPV < 0.26) in sex differences.”
  17. Computer Science › Advanced Neural Network Applications

    Channel Pruning for Accelerating Very Deep Neural Networks

    He, Zhang and Sun · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2017

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    1. Unchecked“Our pruned VGG-16 achieves the state-of-the-art results by 5x speed-up along with only 0.3% increase of error.”
  18. Materials Science › Machine Learning in Materials Science

    Evaluating explorative prediction power of machine learning algorithms for materials discovery using k -fold forward cross-validation

    Xiong, Cui, Liu, Zhao, Hu and Hu · Computational Materials Science · 2019

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    1. Unchecked“Our results show that even though current machine learning models can achieve good results when evaluated with traditional CV, their explorative power is actually very low as shown by our proposed km FCV evaluation method and the proposed exploration accurac…
  19. Materials Science › Machine Learning in Materials Science

    Enhancing materials property prediction by leveraging computational and experimental data using deep transfer learning

    Jha, Choudhary, Tavazza et al. · Nature Communications · 2019

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    1. Unchecked“We build a highly accurate model for predicting formation energy of materials from their compositions; using an experimental data set of $$1,643$$ 1 , 643 observations, the proposed approach yields a mean absolute error (MAE) of $$0.07$$ 0.07 eV/atom, which…
  20. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

    Fragmentation of grid cell maps in a multicompartment environment

    Derdikman, Whitlock, Tsao et al. · Nature Neuroscience · 2009

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    1. Unchecked“We saw similar discontinuities among place cells in the hippocampus.”
    2. Unchecked“No fragmentation was observed when the rats followed similar trajectories in the absence of internal walls, implying that stereotypic behavior alone cannot explain the compartmentalization.”

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