A European Database of Fusarium graminearum and F-culmorum Trichothecene Genotypes

Fusarium species, particularly Fusarium graminearum and F culmorum, are the main cause of trichothecene type B contamination in cereals. Data on the distribution of Fusarium trichothecene genotypes in cereals in Europe are scattered in time and space. Furthermore, a common core set of related variables (sampling method, host cultivar, previous crop, etc.) that would allow more effective analysis of factors influencing the spatial and temporal population distribution, is lacking. Consequently, based on the available data, it is difficult to identify factors influencing chemotype distribution and spread at the European level. Here we describe the results of a collaborative integrated work which aims (1) to characterize the trichothecene genotypes of strains from three Fusarium species, collected over the period 2000-2013 and (2) to enhance the standardization of epidemiological data collection. Information on host plant, country of origin, sampling location, year of sampling and previous crop of 1147 F graminearurn, 479 F culmorum, and 3 F cortaderiae strains obtained from 17 European countries was compiled and a map of trichothecene type B genotype distribution was plotted for each species. All information on the strains was collected in a freely accessible and updatable database (www.catalogueeu.luxmcc.lu), which will serve as a starting point for epidemiological analysis of potential spatial and temporal trichothecene genotype shifts in Europe. The analysis of the currently available European dataset showed that in F. grarninearum, the predominant genotype was 15-acetyldeoxynivalenol (15-ADON) (82.9%), followed by 3-acetyldeoxynivalenol (3-ADON) (13.6%), and nivalenol (NIV) (3.5%). In F culmorum, the prevalent genotype was 3-ADON (59.9%), while the NIV genotype accounted for the remaining 40.1%. Both, geographical and temporal patterns of trichothecene genotypes distribution were identified

“Supposing that truth is a woman, what then?” The Lie Detector, The Love Machine and the Logic of Fantasy

One of the consequences of the public outcry over the 1929 St Valentine’s Day massacre was the establishment of a Scientific Crime Detection Laboratory at Northwestern University. The photogenic “Lie Detector Man”, Leonarde Keeler, was the Laboratory’s poster boy and his instrument the jewel in the crown of forensic science. The press often depicted Keeler gazing at a female suspect attached to his “sweat box”; a galvanometer electrode in her hand, a sphygmomanometer cuff on her arm and a rubber pneumograph tube strapped across her breasts. Keeler’s fascination with the deceptive charms of the female body was one he shared with his fellow lie detector pioneers, all of whom met their wives – and in William Marston’s case his mistress too – through their engagement with the instrument. Marston employed his own “Love Meter”, as the press dubbed it, to prove that “brunettes react far more violently to amatory stimuli than blondes”. In this paper I draw on the psychoanalytic concepts of fantasy and pleasure to argue that the female body played a pivotal role in establishing the lie detector’s reputation as an infallible and benign mechanical technology of truth

Coastal current prediction using CMA evolution strategies

We propose a data-driven evolutionary approach to the modeling of marine currents in the Bay of Monaco. The CMA (Covariance Matrix Adaptation) evolution strategy is used to optimize the parameters of a predictive model that may be used as a surrogate of expensive and time-consuming finite-element simulations. The models obtained are reasonably accurate and easy to interpret

Analyzing human gaze path during an interactive optimization task

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Comparing paired comparison-based interactive DE and tournament interactive GA on stained glass design

Tournament Interactive Genetic Algorithm (T-IGA) and Paired Comparison-based Interactive Differential Evolution (PC-IDE) are applied to the design of stained glass windows and the two algorithms with variable length genotype are compared in a context of interactive evolutionary computation. For both methods, stained glass windows are represented by colored 2D Voronoi diagrams, and a specific phenotypic crossover operator allows offspring to inherit visual features from both parents. The two algorithms have been evaluated by two professional stained-glass artists whom use them to create original designs in a controlled experimental setting. The results indicate superiority of PC-IDE, thus confirming previous theoretical results

QoS-based service optimization using differential evolution

The aim of our research is to find an efficient solution to the services QoS optimization problem. This NP-hard problem is well known in the service-oriented computing field: given a business workflow that includes a set of abstract services and a set of concrete service implementations for each abstract service, the goal is to find the optimal combination of concrete services. The majority of recent proposals indicate the Genetic Algorithms (GA) as the best approach for complex workflows. But this problem usually needs to be solved at runtime, a task for which GA may be too slow. We propose a new approach, based on Differential Evolution (DE), that converges faster and it is more scalable and robust than the existing solutions based on Genetic Algorithms

Gerer en evaluant Le role du Comite National de la Recherche Scientifique

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La gestion des institutions culturelles est-elle specifique ?

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