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Cellular and Secretory Proteins of the Salivary Glands of \u3cem\u3eSciara coprophila\u3c/em\u3e During the Larval-pupal Transformation
The cellular and secretory proteins of the salivary gland of Sciara coprophila during the stages of the larval-pupal transformation were examined by electrophoresis in 0.6 mm sheets of polyacrylamide gel with both SDS-continuous and discontinuous buffer systems. After SDS-electrophoresis, all electrophoretograms of both reduced and nonreduced proteins from single glands stained with Coomassie brilliant blue revealed a pattern containing the same 25 bands during the stages of the larval-pupal transformation. With the staining procedures used in this study, qualitative increases and decreases were detected in existing proteins and enzymes. There was no evidence, however, for the appearance of new protein species that could be correlated with the onset of either pupation or gland histolysis. Electrophoretograms of reduced samples of anterior versus posterior gland parts indicated that no protein in the basic pattern of 25 bands was unique to either the anterior or posterior gland part. Electrophoretograms of reduced samples of secretion collected from either actively feeding or cocoon -building animals showed an electrophoretic pattern containing up to six of the 25 protein fractions detected in salivary gland samples, with varied amounts of these same six proteins in electrophoretograms of secretion samples from a given stage. Zymograms of non-specific esterases in salivary gland samples revealed a progressive increase in the amount of esterase reaction produce in one major band and some decrease in the second major band during later stages of the larval-pupal transformation
Inferring Robot Task Plans from Human Team Meetings: A Generative Modeling Approach with Logic-Based Prior
We aim to reduce the burden of programming and deploying autonomous systems
to work in concert with people in time-critical domains, such as military field
operations and disaster response. Deployment plans for these operations are
frequently negotiated on-the-fly by teams of human planners. A human operator
then translates the agreed upon plan into machine instructions for the robots.
We present an algorithm that reduces this translation burden by inferring the
final plan from a processed form of the human team's planning conversation. Our
approach combines probabilistic generative modeling with logical plan
validation used to compute a highly structured prior over possible plans. This
hybrid approach enables us to overcome the challenge of performing inference
over the large solution space with only a small amount of noisy data from the
team planning session. We validate the algorithm through human subject
experimentation and show we are able to infer a human team's final plan with
83% accuracy on average. We also describe a robot demonstration in which two
people plan and execute a first-response collaborative task with a PR2 robot.
To the best of our knowledge, this is the first work that integrates a logical
planning technique within a generative model to perform plan inference.Comment: Appears in Proceedings of the Twenty-Seventh AAAI Conference on
Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-13
Evaluation of Labeling Strategies for Rotating Maps
We consider the following problem of labeling points in a dynamic map that
allows rotation. We are given a set of points in the plane labeled by a set of
mutually disjoint labels, where each label is an axis-aligned rectangle
attached with one corner to its respective point. We require that each label
remains horizontally aligned during the map rotation and our goal is to find a
set of mutually non-overlapping active labels for every rotation angle so that the number of active labels over a full map rotation of
2 is maximized. We discuss and experimentally evaluate several labeling
models that define additional consistency constraints on label activities in
order to reduce flickering effects during monotone map rotation. We introduce
three heuristic algorithms and compare them experimentally to an existing
approximation algorithm and exact solutions obtained from an integer linear
program. Our results show that on the one hand low flickering can be achieved
at the expense of only a small reduction in the objective value, and that on
the other hand the proposed heuristics achieve a high labeling quality
significantly faster than the other methods.Comment: 16 pages, extended version of a SEA 2014 pape
Explaining Machine Learning Classifiers through Diverse Counterfactual Explanations
Post-hoc explanations of machine learning models are crucial for people to
understand and act on algorithmic predictions. An intriguing class of
explanations is through counterfactuals, hypothetical examples that show people
how to obtain a different prediction. We posit that effective counterfactual
explanations should satisfy two properties: feasibility of the counterfactual
actions given user context and constraints, and diversity among the
counterfactuals presented. To this end, we propose a framework for generating
and evaluating a diverse set of counterfactual explanations based on
determinantal point processes. To evaluate the actionability of
counterfactuals, we provide metrics that enable comparison of
counterfactual-based methods to other local explanation methods. We further
address necessary tradeoffs and point to causal implications in optimizing for
counterfactuals. Our experiments on four real-world datasets show that our
framework can generate a set of counterfactuals that are diverse and well
approximate local decision boundaries, outperforming prior approaches to
generating diverse counterfactuals. We provide an implementation of the
framework at https://github.com/microsoft/DiCE.Comment: 13 page
That is just part of being able to do my cool job: Understanding low earnings but high job satisfaction in the creative industries in the Netherlands
Work in the creative industries seems to be characterized by a contradictory situation between (very) low levels of earnings pared with high levels of job satisfaction. Often this is attributed to creative workers ‘just valuing other aspects of their work’. Other explanations are also possible such as labour market conditions and a lack of collective interest representation. In this study we combine these explanations and aim to understand if and why earnings in the creative industries are low(er). We focus on two sub-sectors of the creative industries: graphic design- and the games industry. Semi-structured interviews were held with entrepreneurs, freelance workers and employees, as well as institutional level actors. Results show that workers do not overall perceive their income levels as low at an absolute level, although they do point out specific groups as vulnerable: starting entrepreneurs, freelance workers, and indie game developers. These groups are central for the make-up of the sector as many start their own business at some point in their career. Workers indicate, however, that they are willing to forego earnings for the sake of working in the sector. This situation can best be understood as an interaction between personal preferences, labour market conditions and lack of interest in collective organization. In addition, there seems to be a norm that ‘true creative workers’ are willing to sacrifice earnings
Directional gene flow and ecological separation in Yersinia enterocolitica
Yersinia enterocolitica is a common cause of food-borne gastroenteritis worldwide. Recent work defining the phylogeny of the genus Yersinia subdivided Y. enterocolitica into six distinct phylogroups. Here, we provide detailed analyses of the evolutionary processes leading to the emergence of these phylogroups. The dominant phylogroups isolated from human infections, PG3–5, show very little diversity at the sequence level, but do present marked patterns of gain and loss of functions, including those involved in pathogenicity and metabolism, including the acquisition of phylogroup-specific O-antigen loci. We tracked gene flow across the species in the core and accessory genome, and show that the non-pathogenic PG1 strains act as a reservoir for diversity, frequently acting as donors in recombination events. Analysis of the core and accessory genome also suggested that the different Y. enterocolitica phylogroups may be ecologically separated, in contrast to the long-held belief of common shared ecological niches across the Y. enterocolitica species
Discussion: Non-uniqueness of flow liquefaction line for loose sand
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On Human Predictions with Explanations and Predictions of Machine Learning Models: A Case Study on Deception Detection
Humans are the final decision makers in critical tasks that involve ethical
and legal concerns, ranging from recidivism prediction, to medical diagnosis,
to fighting against fake news. Although machine learning models can sometimes
achieve impressive performance in these tasks, these tasks are not amenable to
full automation. To realize the potential of machine learning for improving
human decisions, it is important to understand how assistance from machine
learning models affects human performance and human agency.
In this paper, we use deception detection as a testbed and investigate how we
can harness explanations and predictions of machine learning models to improve
human performance while retaining human agency. We propose a spectrum between
full human agency and full automation, and develop varying levels of machine
assistance along the spectrum that gradually increase the influence of machine
predictions. We find that without showing predicted labels, explanations alone
slightly improve human performance in the end task. In comparison, human
performance is greatly improved by showing predicted labels (>20% relative
improvement) and can be further improved by explicitly suggesting strong
machine performance. Interestingly, when predicted labels are shown,
explanations of machine predictions induce a similar level of accuracy as an
explicit statement of strong machine performance. Our results demonstrate a
tradeoff between human performance and human agency and show that explanations
of machine predictions can moderate this tradeoff.Comment: 17 pages, 19 figures, in Proceedings of ACM FAT* 2019, dataset & demo
available at https://deception.machineintheloop.co
Inferring team task plans from human meetings: A generative modeling approach with logic-based prior
We aim to reduce the burden of programming and deploying autonomous systems to work in concert with people in time-critical domains such as military field operations and disaster response. Deployment plans for these operations are frequently negotiated on-the-fly by teams of human planners. A human operator then translates the agreed-upon plan into machine instructions for the robots. We present an algorithm that reduces this translation burden by inferring the final plan from a processed form of the human team's planning conversation. Our hybrid approach combines probabilistic generative modeling with logical plan validation used to compute a highly structured prior over possible plans, enabling us to overcome the challenge of performing inference over a large solution space with only a small amount of noisy data from the team planning session. We validate the algorithm through human subject experimentations and show that it is able to infer a human team's final plan with 86% accuracy on average. We also describe a robot demonstration in which two people plan and execute a first-response collaborative task with a PR2 robot. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first work to integrate a logical planning technique within a generative model to perform plan inference.United States. Dept. of Defense. Assistant Secretary of Defense for Research & Engineering (United States. Air Force Contract FA8721-05-C-0002
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