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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 81–100 of 611

  1. 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.”
  2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Machine Learning in Bioinformatics

    ProtTrans: Toward Understanding the Language of Life Through Self-Supervised Learning

    Elnaggar, Heinzinger, Dallago et al. · IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence · 2021

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    1. Unchecked“Dimensionality reduction revealed that the raw pLM-embeddings from unlabeled data captured some biophysical features of protein sequences.”
    2. Unchecked“We validated the advantage of using the embeddings as exclusive input for several subsequent tasks: (1) a per-residue (per-token) prediction of protein secondary structure (3-state accuracy Q3=81%-87%); (2) per-protein (pooling) predictions of protein sub-ce…
    3. Unchecked“For secondary structure, the most informative embeddings (ProtT5) for the first time outperformed the state-of-the-art without multiple sequence alignments (MSAs) or evolutionary information thereby bypassing expensive database searches.”
  3. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

    The entorhinal grid map is discretized

    Stensola, Stensola, Solstad, Frøland, Moser and Moser · Nature · 2012

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    1. Unchecked“Here we show with recordings from up to 186 grid cells in individual rats that grid cells cluster into a small number of layer-spanning anatomically overlapping modules with distinct scale, orientation, asymmetry and theta-frequency modulation.”
    2. Unchecked“These modules can respond independently to changes in the geometry of the environment.”
  4. Physics and Astronomy

    arXiv 2503.14738

    arXiv 2503.14738: OpenAlex has no record of it

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    1. Unchecked“When also including SNe, the preference for a dynamical dark energy model over $Λ$CDM ranges from $2.8-4.2σ$ depending on which SNe sample is used.”
    2. Unchecked“This solution is preferred over $Λ$CDM at $3.1σ$ for the combination of DESI BAO and CMB data.”
    3. Unchecked“From the combination of DESI and CMB we derive 95% upper limits on the sum of neutrino masses, finding $\sum m_ν<0.064$ eV assuming $Λ$CDM and $\sum m_ν<0.16$ eV in the $w_0w_a$ model.”
  5. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genomics and Rare Diseases

    Accurate proteome-wide missense variant effect prediction with AlphaMissense

    Cheng, Novati, Pan et al. · Science · 2023

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    1. Unchecked“By combining structural context and evolutionary conservation, our model achieves state-of-the-art results across a wide range of genetic and experimental benchmarks, all without explicitly training on such data.”
    2. Unchecked“The average pathogenicity score of genes is also predictive for their cell essentiality, capable of identifying short essential genes that existing statistical approaches are underpowered to detect.”
    3. Unchecked“As a resource to the community, we provide a database of predictions for all possible human single amino acid substitutions and classify 89% of missense variants as either likely benign or likely pathogenic.”
  6. Computer Science › Advanced Neural Network Applications

    EIE

    Han, Liu, Mao et al. · ACM SIGARCH Computer Architecture News · 2016

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    1. Unchecked“Going from DRAM to SRAM gives EIE 120× energy saving; Exploiting sparsity saves 10×; Weight sharing gives 8×; Skipping zero activations from ReLU saves another 3×.”
    2. Unchecked“Compared with DaDianNao, EIE has 2.9×, 19× and 3× better throughput, energy efficiency and area efficiency.”
  7. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies

    UniRef clusters: a comprehensive and scalable alternative for improving sequence similarity searches

    Süzek, Wang, Huang, McGarvey and Wu · Bioinformatics · 2014

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    1. Unchecked“Results show that UniRef clusters bring together proteins of identical molecular function in more than 97% of the clusters, implying that clusters are useful for annotation and can also be used to detect annotation inconsistencies.”
  8. Computer Science › Advanced Neural Network Applications

    Densely Connected Convolutional Networks

    Huang, Liu, van der Maaten and Weinberger · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2016

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    1. Unchecked“DenseNets have several compelling advantages: they alleviate the vanishing-gradient problem, strengthen feature propagation, encourage feature reuse, and substantially reduce the number of parameters.”
  9. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

    The Global Signal and Observed Anticorrelated Resting State Brain Networks

    Fox, Zhang, Snyder and Raichle · Journal of Neurophysiology · 2009

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    1. Unchecked“We detail the influence of global signal removal on resting state correlation maps both mathematically and empirically, showing an enhancement in detection of system-specific correlations and improvement in the correspondence between resting-state correlatio…
    2. Unchecked“Finally, we show that several characteristics of anticorrelated networks including their spatial distribution, cross-subject consistency, presence with modified whole brain masks, and existence before global regression are not attributable to global signal r…
  10. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

    Perineuronal nets stabilize the grid cell network

    Christensen, Lensjø, Lepperød et al. · Nature Communications · 2021

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    1. Unchecked“Furthermore, in animals with disrupted PNNs, exposure to a novel arena corrupted the spatiotemporal relationships within grid cell modules, and the stored representations of a familiar arena.”
    2. Unchecked“Finally, we show that PNN removal in entorhinal cortex distorted spatial representations in downstream hippocampal neurons.”
  11. Computer Science

    arXiv 1806.04731

    arXiv 1806.04731: OpenAlex has no record of it

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    1. Unchecked“The prognostic multi-year simulations are stable and closely reproduce not only the mean climate of the cloud-resolving simulation but also key aspects of variability, including precipitation extremes and the equatorial wave spectrum.”
    2. Unchecked“Furthermore, the neural network approximately conserves energy despite not being explicitly instructed to.”
    3. Unchecked“Finally, we show that the neural network parameterization generalizes to new surface forcing patterns but struggles to cope with temperatures far outside its training manifold.”
  12. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

    Head-direction cells recorded from the postsubiculum in freely moving rats. I. Description and quantitative analysis

    Taube, Muller and Ranck · Journal of Neuroscience · 1990

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    1. Unchecked“Approximately 26% of the cells were classified as head-direction cells because they discharged as a function of the animal's head direction in the horizontal plane, independent of the animal's behavior, location, or trunk position.”
    2. Unchecked“Plots of firing rate versus head direction showed that each firing-rate/head-direction function was adequately described by a triangular function.”
    3. Unchecked“Results from 24 head-direction cells in 7 animals showed an equal distribution of preferred firing directions over a 360 degrees angle.”
  13. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

    Intrinsic and Task-Evoked Network Architectures of the Human Brain

    Cole, Bassett, Power, Braver and Petersen · Neuron · 2014

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    1. Unchecked“The most frequent functional connectivity strengths across tasks closely matched the strengths observed at rest, suggesting this is an "intrinsic," standard architecture of functional brain organization.”
    2. Unchecked“Furthermore, a set of small but consistent changes common across tasks suggests the existence of a task-general network architecture distinguishing task states from rest.”
  14. Earth and Planetary Sciences › Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations

    Accurate medium-range global weather forecasting with 3D neural networks

    Bi, Xie, Zhang, Chen, Gu and Tian · Nature · 2023

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    1. Unchecked“Trained on 39 years of global data, our program, Pangu-Weather, obtains stronger deterministic forecast results on reanalysis data in all tested variables when compared with the world’s best NWP system, the operational integrated forecasting system of the Eu…
  15. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

    The effects of changes in the environment on the spatial firing of hippocampal complex-spike cells

    Muller and Kubie · Journal of Neuroscience · 1987

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    1. Unchecked“Rotating the cue card produced equal rotations of the firing fields of single cells.”
    2. Unchecked“When the standard (small) cylinder was scaled up in diameter and height by a factor of 2, the firing fields of 36% of the cells observed in both cylinders also scaled, in the sense that the field stayed at the same angular position and at the same relative r…
  16. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

    Conjunctive Representation of Position, Direction, and Velocity in Entorhinal Cortex

    Sargolini, Fyhn, Hafting et al. · Science · 2006

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    1. Unchecked“Whereas layer II was predominated by grid cells, grid cells colocalized with head-direction cells and conjunctive grid × head-direction cells in the deeper layers.”
  17. Computer Science › Topic Modeling

    Sparks of Artificial General Intelligence: Early experiments with GPT-4

    Bubeck, Chandrasekaran, Eldan et al. · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2023

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    1. Unchecked“We demonstrate that, beyond its mastery of language, GPT-4 can solve novel and difficult tasks that span mathematics, coding, vision, medicine, law, psychology and more, without needing any special prompting.”
  18. Physics and Astronomy

    arXiv 0811.2606

    arXiv 0811.2606: OpenAlex has no record of it

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    1. Unchecked“Multi-epoch data show counter-clockwise orbital motion for all three imaged planets.”
    2. Unchecked“The low luminosity of the companions and the estimated age of the system imply planetary masses between 5 and 13 times that of Jupiter.”
  19. Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence Applications

    Scaling Laws for Neural Language Models

    Jared, McCandlish, Henighan et al. · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2020

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    1. Unchecked“The loss scales as a power-law with model size, dataset size, and the amount of compute used for training, with some trends spanning more than seven orders of magnitude.”
  20. Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Global Financial Crisis and Policies

    From Financial Crash to Debt Crisis

    Reinhart and Rogoff · American Economic Review · 2011

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    1. Unchecked“First, external debt surges are an antecedent to banking crises.”
    2. Unchecked“Second, banking crises (domestic and those in financial centers) often precede or accompany sovereign debt crises; we find they help predict them.”

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