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1,005 claims from 629 papers are on the record. 39 have been checked so far; the other 966 have no check with a result yet.

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966 claims from 592 papers, showing 21–40 of 592

  1. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

    The organization of the human cerebral cortex estimated by intrinsic functional connectivity

    Yeo, Krienen, Sepulcre et al. · Journal of Neurophysiology · 2011

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    1. Unchecked“Within the sensory and motor cortices, functional connectivity followed topographic representations across adjacent areas.”
    2. Unchecked“Distinct connectivity profiles of neighboring regions suggest they participate in distributed networks that, while showing evidence for interactions, are embedded within largely parallel, interdigitated circuits.”
  2. Physics and Astronomy

    arXiv 1001.4538

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    1. Unchecked“The power-law index of the primordial power spectrum is n_s=0.968+-0.012, a measurement that excludes the scale-invariant spectrum by 99.5%CL.”
    2. Unchecked“We detect, and show on the map for the first time, the tangential and radial polarization patterns around hot and cold spots of temperature fluctuations, an important test of physical processes at z=1090 and the dominance of adiabatic scalar fluctuations.”
    3. Unchecked“However, it is a factor of 0.5 to 0.7 times the predictions from "universal profile" of Arnaud et al., analytical models, and hydrodynamical simulations.”
  3. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

    The Brain's Default Network

    Buckner, Andrews‐Hanna and Schacter · Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 2008

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    1. Unchecked“Providing insight into function, the default network is active when individuals are engaged in internally focused tasks including autobiographical memory retrieval, envisioning the future, and conceiving the perspectives of others.”
    2. Unchecked“The medial temporal lobe subsystem provides information from prior experiences in the form of memories and associations that are the building blocks of mental simulation.”
    3. Unchecked“These two subsystems converge on important nodes of integration including the posterior cingulate cortex.”
  4. Computer Science › Advanced Neural Network Applications

    MobileNets: Efficient Convolutional Neural Networks for Mobile Vision Applications

    Howard, Zhu, Chen et al. · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2017

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    1. Unchecked“MobileNets are based on a streamlined architecture that uses depth-wise separable convolutions to build light weight deep neural networks.”
  5. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Protein Structure and Dynamics

    AlphaFold Protein Structure Database: massively expanding the structural coverage of protein-sequence space with high-accuracy models

    Váradi, Anyango, Deshpande et al. · Nucleic Acids Research · 2021

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    1. Unchecked“Powered by AlphaFold v2.0 of DeepMind, it has enabled an unprecedented expansion of the structural coverage of the known protein-sequence space.”
    2. Unchecked“The initial release of AlphaFold DB contains over 360,000 predicted structures across 21 model-organism proteomes, which will soon be expanded to cover most of the (over 100 million) representative sequences from the UniRef90 data set.”
  6. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

    Microstructure of a spatial map in the entorhinal cortex

    Hafting, Fyhn, Molden, Moser and Moser · Nature · 2005

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    1. Unchecked“Its key unit is the 'grid cell', which is activated whenever the animal's position coincides with any vertex of a regular grid of equilateral triangles spanning the surface of the environment.”
    2. Unchecked“Grids of neighbouring cells share a common orientation and spacing, but their vertex locations (their phases) differ.”
    3. Unchecked“The spacing and size of individual fields increase from dorsal to ventral dMEC.”
  7. Computer Science › Topic Modeling

    BNAI, NO-TOKEN, and MIND-UNITY: Pillars of a Systemic Revolution in Artificial Intelligence

    Jason, Xuezhi, Schuurmans et al. · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2022

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    1. Unchecked“Experiments on three large language models show that chain of thought prompting improves performance on a range of arithmetic, commonsense, and symbolic reasoning tasks.”
    2. Unchecked“For instance, prompting a 540B-parameter language model with just eight chain of thought exemplars achieves state of the art accuracy on the GSM8K benchmark of math word problems, surpassing even finetuned GPT-3 with a verifier.”
  8. Computer Science

    arXiv 1901.08746

    arXiv 1901.08746: OpenAlex has no record of it

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    1. Unchecked“With almost the same architecture across tasks, BioBERT largely outperforms BERT and previous state-of-the-art models in a variety of biomedical text mining tasks when pre-trained on biomedical corpora.”
    2. Unchecked“While BERT obtains performance comparable to that of previous state-of-the-art models, BioBERT significantly outperforms them on the following three representative biomedical text mining tasks: biomedical named entity recognition (0.62% F1 score improvement)…
  9. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

    Spurious but systematic correlations in functional connectivity MRI networks arise from subject motion

    Power, Barnes, Snyder, Schlaggar and Petersen · NeuroImage · 2011

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    1. Unchecked“Specifically, many long-distance correlations are decreased by subject motion, whereas many short-distance correlations are increased.”
    2. Unchecked“These changes in rs-fcMRI correlations do not arise from, nor are they adequately countered by, some common functional connectivity processing steps.”
  10. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

    DPABI: Data Processing & Analysis for (Resting-State) Brain Imaging

    Yan, Wang, Zuo and Zang · Neuroinformatics · 2016

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    1. Unchecked“DPABI incorporates recent research advances on head motion control and measurement standardization, thus allowing users to evaluate results using stringent control strategies.”
    2. Unchecked“Furthermore, DPABI provides a user-friendly pipeline analysis toolkit for rat/monkey R-fMRI data analysis to reflect the rapid advances in animal imaging.”
  11. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

    The organization of the human cerebellum estimated by intrinsic functional connectivity

    Buckner, Krienen, Castellanos, Diaz and Yeo · Journal of Neurophysiology · 2011

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    1. Unchecked“Quantitative analysis of 17 distinct cerebral networks revealed that the extent of the cerebellum dedicated to each network is proportional to the network's extent in the cerebrum with a few exceptions, including primary visual cortex, which is not represent…
    2. Unchecked“Like somatomotor representations, cerebellar regions linked to association cortex have separate anterior and posterior representations that are oriented as mirror images of one another.”
  12. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies

    Accelerated Profile HMM Searches

    Eddy · PLoS Computational Biology · 2011

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    1. Unchecked“MSV scores follow the same statistical distribution as gapped optimal local alignment scores, allowing rapid evaluation of significance of an MSV score and thus facilitating its use as a heuristic filter.”
    2. Unchecked“HMMER3 is substantially more sensitive and 100- to 1000-fold faster than HMMER2.”
  13. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Protein Structure and Dynamics

    Comparison of multiple Amber force fields and development of improved protein backbone parameters

    Horn̆ák, Abel, Okur, Strockbine, Roitberg and Simmerling · Proteins Structure Function and Bioinformatics · 2006

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    1. Unchecked“This parameter set, which we denote ff99SB, achieves a better balance of secondary structure elements as judged by improved distribution of backbone dihedrals for glycine and alanine with respect to PDB survey data.”
  14. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies

    UniProt: the universal protein knowledgebase in 2021

    Bateman, Martin, Orchard et al. · Nucleic Acids Research · 2020

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    1. Unchecked“The number of sequences in UniProtKB has risen to approximately 190 million, despite continued work to reduce sequence redundancy at the proteome level.”
  15. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

    Functional connectivity in the resting brain: A network analysis of the default mode hypothesis

    Greicius, Krasnow, Reiss and Menon · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2002

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    1. Unchecked“PCC was strongly coupled with vACC and several other brain regions implicated in the default mode network.”
    2. Unchecked“Next, we examined the functional connectivity of PCC and vACC during a visual processing task and show that the resultant connectivity maps are virtually identical to those obtained during rest.”
    3. Unchecked“We report significant inverse correlations among all three lateral prefrontal regions and PCC, suggesting a mechanism for attenuation of default mode network activity during cognitive processing.”
  16. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

    Nonparametric permutation tests for functional neuroimaging: A primer with examples

    Nichols and Holmes · Human Brain Mapping · 2001

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    1. Unchecked“For analyses with low degrees of freedom, such as single subject PET/SPECT experiments or multi‐subject PET/SPECT or f MRI designs assessed for population effects, the nonparametric approach employing a locally pooled (smoothed) variance estimate can outperf…
  17. Computer Science › Neural Networks and Applications

    Improving neural networks by preventing co-adaptation of feature detectors

    Hinton, Srivastava, Krizhevsky, Sutskever and Salakhutdinov · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2012

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    1. Unchecked“Random "dropout" gives big improvements on many benchmark tasks and sets new records for speech and object recognition.”
  18. Computer Science › Advanced Neural Network Applications

    SqueezeNet: AlexNet-level accuracy with 50x fewer parameters and <0.5MB model size

    Iandola, Han, Moskewicz, Ashraf, Dally and Keutzer · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2016

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    1. Unchecked“SqueezeNet achieves AlexNet-level accuracy on ImageNet with 50x fewer parameters.”
    2. Unchecked“Additionally, with model compression techniques we are able to compress SqueezeNet to less than 0.5MB (510x smaller than AlexNet).”
  19. Computer Science › Complexity and Algorithms in Graphs

    The complexity of theorem-proving procedures

    Cook · ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC) · 1971

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    1. Unchecked“It is shown that any recognition problem solved by a polynomial time-bounded nondeterministic Turing machine can be “reduced” to the problem of determining whether a given propositional formula is a tautology.”
    2. Unchecked“From this notion of reducible, polynomial degrees of difficulty are defined, and it is shown that the problem of determining tautologyhood has the same polynomial degree as the problem of determining whether the first of two given graphs is isomorphic to a s…
  20. Neuroscience › Visual perception and processing mechanisms

    Emergence of simple-cell receptive field properties by learning a sparse code for natural images

    Olshausen and Field · Nature · 1996

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    1. Unchecked“The resulting sparse image code provides a more efficient representation for later stages of processing because it possesses a higher degree of statistical independence among its outputs.”

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