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1,035 claims from 648 papers are on the record. 39 have been checked so far; the other 996 have no check with a result yet.

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996 claims from 611 papers, showing 61–80 of 611

  1. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

    Investigations into resting-state connectivity using independent component analysis

    Beckmann, DeLuca, Devlin and Smith · Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences · 2005

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    1. Unchecked“We apply PICA to fMRI data acquired at rest, in order to characterize the spatio-temporal structure of such data, and demonstrate that this is an effective and robust tool for the identification of low-frequency resting-state patterns from data acquired at v…
  2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Protein Structure and Dynamics

    Improved protein structure prediction using potentials from deep learning

    Senior, Evans, Jumper et al. · Nature · 2020

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    1. Unchecked“We find that the resulting potential can be optimized by a simple gradient descent algorithm to generate structures without complex sampling procedures.”
    2. Unchecked“In the recent Critical Assessment of Protein Structure Prediction 5 (CASP13)-a blind assessment of the state of the field-AlphaFold created high-accuracy structures (with template modelling (TM) scores 6 of 0.7 or higher) for 24 out of 43 free modelling doma…
  3. Physics and Astronomy › Cosmology and Gravitation Theories

    A 2.4% Determination of the Local Value of the Hubble Constant

    Riess, Macri, Hoffmann et al. · OakTrust (Texas A&M University Libraries) · 2016

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    1. Unchecked“Our best estimate of 73.24+/-1.74 km/sec/Mpc combines the anchors NGC4258, MW, and LMC, and includes systematic errors for a final uncertainty of 2.4%.”
  4. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Protein Structure and Dynamics

    Highly accurate protein structure prediction for the human proteome

    Tunyasuvunakool, Adler, Wu et al. · Nature · 2021

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    1. Unchecked“The resulting dataset covers 58% of residues with a confident prediction, of which a subset (36% of all residues) have very high confidence.”
  5. Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Fiscal Policies and Political Economy

    On the Determination of the Public Debt

    Barro · Journal of Political Economy · 1979

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    1. Unchecked“A central proposition is that deficits are varied in order to maintain expected constancy in tax rates.”
    2. Unchecked“This behavior implies a positive effect on debt issue of temporary increases in government spending (as in wartime), a countercyclical response of debt to temporary income movements, and a one-to-one effect of expected inflation on nominal debt growth.”
  6. 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. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2021

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    1. Unchecked“We find that without prior knowledge, information emerges in the learned representations on fundamental properties of proteins such as secondary structure, contacts, and biological activity.”
    2. Unchecked“Unsupervised representation learning enables state-of-the-art supervised prediction of mutational effect and secondary structure and improves state-of-the-art features for long-range contact prediction.”
  7. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

    Toward discovery science of human brain function

    Biswal, Mennes, Zuo et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2010

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    1. Unchecked“We demonstrate a universal architecture of positive and negative functional connections, as well as consistent loci of inter-individual variability.”
    2. Unchecked“Age and sex emerged as significant determinants.”
    3. Unchecked“These results demonstrate that independent R-fMRI datasets can be aggregated and shared.”
  8. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

    Cortical Hubs Revealed by Intrinsic Functional Connectivity: Mapping, Assessment of Stability, and Relation to Alzheimer's Disease

    Buckner, Sepulcre, Talukdar et al. · Journal of Neuroscience · 2009

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    1. Unchecked“Prominent hubs were located within posterior cingulate, lateral temporal, lateral parietal, and medial/lateral prefrontal cortices.”
    2. Unchecked“A third dataset ( n = 12) demonstrated that the locations of hubs were present across passive and active task states, suggesting that they reflect a stable property of cortical network architecture.”
    3. Unchecked“Positron emission tomography amyloid imaging in AD ( n = 10) compared with older controls ( n = 29) showed high amyloid-β deposition in the locations of cortical hubs consistent with the possibility that hubs, while acting as critical way stations for inform…
  9. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

    Generation and Evaluation of a Cortical Area Parcellation from Resting-State Correlations

    Gordon, Laumann, Adeyemo, Huckins, Kelley and Petersen · Cerebral Cortex · 2014

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    1. Unchecked“These parcels had highly homogenous RSFC patterns, indicating that they contained one unique RSFC signal; furthermore, the parcels were much more homogenous than a null model matched for parcel size when tested in two separate datasets.”
    2. Unchecked“The boundary map-derived parcellation contained parcels that overlapped with architectonic mapping of areas 17, 2, 3, and 4.”
    3. Unchecked“Several alternative parcellation schemes were tested this way, and no other parcellation was as homogenous as or had as large a difference compared with its null model.”
  10. Physics and Astronomy › Cosmology and Gravitation Theories

    The Pantheon+ Analysis: The Full Data Set and Light-curve Release

    Scolnic, Brout, Carr et al. · The Astrophysical Journal · 2022

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    1. Unchecked“The total number of light curves, which are compiled across 18 different surveys, is a significant increase from the first Pantheon analysis (1048 SNe), particularly at low redshift ( z ).”
    2. Unchecked“Furthermore, unlike in the Pantheon analysis, we include light curves for SNe with z < 0.01 such that SN systematic covariance can be included in a joint measurement of the Hubble constant ( H 0 ) and the dark energy equation-of-state parameter ( w ).”
  11. Computer Science › Metaheuristic Optimization Algorithms Research

    Grasshopper Optimisation Algorithm: Theory and application

    Saremi, Mirjalili and Lewis · Advances in Engineering Software · 2017

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    1. Unchecked“The results show that the proposed algorithm is able to provide superior results compared to well-known and recent algorithms in the literature.”
  12. Physics and Astronomy

    arXiv 1105.3470

    arXiv 1105.3470: OpenAlex has no record of it

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    1. Unchecked“Adding these supernovae improves the best combined constraint on the dark energy density ρ_{DE}(z) at redshifts 1.0 < z < 1.6 by 18% (including systematic errors).”
    2. Unchecked“For a flat wCDM model, we measure a constant dark energy equation-of-state parameter w = -0.985 +0.071/-0.077 (68% CL).”
  13. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Protein Structure and Dynamics

    Fast and accurate protein structure search with Foldseek

    van Kempen, Kim, Tumescheit et al. · Nature Biotechnology · 2023

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    1. Unchecked“Foldseek decreases computation times by four to five orders of magnitude with 86%, 88% and 133% of the sensitivities of Dali, TM-align and CE, respectively.”
  14. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

    Representation of Geometric Borders in the Entorhinal Cortex

    Solstad, Boccara, Kropff, Moser and Moser · Science · 2008

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    1. Unchecked“Border cells are relatively sparse, making up less than 10% of the local cell population, but can be found in all layers of the medial entorhinal cortex as well as the adjacent parasubiculum, often intermingled with head-direction cells and grid cells.”
    2. Unchecked“The orientation-specific edge-apposing activity of these “border cells” is maintained when the environment is stretched and during testing in enclosures of different size and shape in different rooms.”
  15. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

    Secular perturbations of asteroids with high inclination and eccentricity

    Kozai · The Astronomical Journal · 1962

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    1. Unchecked“After short-periodic terms in the Hamiltonian are eliminated, the degree of freedom for the canonical equations of motion can be reduced to 1.”
    2. Unchecked“When the z component of the angular momentum (that is, Delaunay's H) of the asteroid is smaller than a certain limiting value, there are both a stationary solution and solutions corresponding to libration cases.”
    3. Unchecked“The limiting value of H increases as the ratio of the semimajor axes increases, i.e., the corresponding limiting inclination drops from 39.2° to 1.8° as the ratio of the axes increases from 0.0 to 0.95.”
  16. Computer Science › Neural Networks and Applications

    Optimal Brain Damage

    LeCun, Denker and Solla · 1989

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    1. Unchecked“By removing unimportant weights from a network, several improvements can be expected: better generalization, fewer training examples required, and improved speed of learning and/or classification.”
  17. Materials Science › Machine Learning in Materials Science

    The Open Quantum Materials Database (OQMD): assessing the accuracy of DFT formation energies

    Kirklin, Saal, Meredig et al. · npj Computational Materials · 2015

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    1. Unchecked“In order to estimate how much error to attribute to the DFT calculations, we also examine deviation between different experimental measurements themselves where multiple sources are available, and find a surprisingly large mean absolute error of 0.082 eV/ato…
    2. Unchecked“The apparent mean absolute error between experimental measurements and our calculations is 0.096 eV/atom.”
  18. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

    Impact of in-scanner head motion on multiple measures of functional connectivity: Relevance for studies of neurodevelopment in youth

    Satterthwaite, Wolf, Loughead et al. · NeuroImage · 2012

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    1. Unchecked“While subject age was associated with increased within-network connectivity even when motion was accounted for, controlling for motion substantially attenuated the strength of this relationship.”
  19. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

    The impact of global signal regression on resting state correlations: Are anti-correlated networks introduced?

    Murphy, Birn, Handwerker, Jones and Bandettini · NeuroImage · 2008

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    1. Unchecked“Here we show that, after global signal regression, correlation values to a seed voxel must sum to a negative value.”
  20. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

    The influence of head motion on intrinsic functional connectivity MRI

    Van Dijk, Sabuncu and Buckner · NeuroImage · 2011

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    1. Unchecked“Head motion was associated with decreased functional coupling in the default and frontoparietal control networks--two networks characterized by coupling among distributed regions of association cortex.”
    2. Unchecked“Other network measures increased with motion including estimates of local functional coupling and coupling between left and right motor regions--a region pair sometimes used as a control in studies to establish specificity.”

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