153 research outputs found
Mitigating Gender Bias in Machine Learning Data Sets
Artificial Intelligence has the capacity to amplify and perpetuate societal
biases and presents profound ethical implications for society. Gender bias has
been identified in the context of employment advertising and recruitment tools,
due to their reliance on underlying language processing and recommendation
algorithms. Attempts to address such issues have involved testing learned
associations, integrating concepts of fairness to machine learning and
performing more rigorous analysis of training data. Mitigating bias when
algorithms are trained on textual data is particularly challenging given the
complex way gender ideology is embedded in language. This paper proposes a
framework for the identification of gender bias in training data for machine
learning.The work draws upon gender theory and sociolinguistics to
systematically indicate levels of bias in textual training data and associated
neural word embedding models, thus highlighting pathways for both removing bias
from training data and critically assessing its impact.Comment: 10 pages, 5 figures, 5 Tables, Presented as Bias2020 workshop (as
part of the ECIR Conference) - http://bias.disim.univaq.i
The rational canonical form of a matrix
ABSTRACT. The purpose of this paper is to provide an efficient algorithmic means of determining the rational canonical form of a matrix using computational symbolic algebraic manipulation packages, and is in fact the practical implementation of a classical mathematical method
Eigenfunction statistics for a point scatterer on a three-dimensional torus
In this paper we study eigenfunction statistics for a point scatterer (the
Laplacian perturbed by a delta-potential) on a three-dimensional flat torus.
The eigenfunctions of this operator are the eigenfunctions of the Laplacian
which vanish at the scatterer, together with a set of new eigenfunctions
(perturbed eigenfunctions). We first show that for a point scatterer on the
standard torus all of the perturbed eigenfunctions are uniformly distributed in
configuration space. Then we investigate the same problem for a point scatterer
on a flat torus with some irrationality conditions, and show uniform
distribution in configuration space for almost all of the perturbed
eigenfunctions.Comment: Revised according to referee's comments. Accepted for publication in
Annales Henri Poincar
Cryptography Adapted to the New European Area of Higher Education
9 pages, no figures.-- Contributed to: Computational Science – ICCS 2008: 8th International Conference, Kraków, Poland, June 23-25, 2008, Proceedings, Part II.A new experience for teaching Cryptography to engineering students is shown. The aim is to give them a better understanding of secure and cryptographic algorithms by using Maple software, in a graduate-level course. In this paper we discuss how to structure, define, and implement a web-based course as a part of the traditional classes, according to the convergence of the European Higher Education Project. The proposed course facilitates the use of new Information and Communication Technologies.This work has been supported by Ministerio de Industria, Turismo y Comercio (Spain) in collaboration with Telef¶onica I+D (Project SEGUR@) with reference CENIT-2007 2004.Peer reviewe
History in the service of politics:Constructing narratives of history during the European refugee “crisis”
A solid-phase enzyme-linked assay for vitamin B 12
A new solid-phase enzyme-linked competitive binding assay for vitamin B 12 (cyanocobalamin) is described. The assay is based on the competition between analyte B 12 molecules and a glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase-vitamin B 12 conjugate for a limited number of R-protein binding sites immobilized on sepharose particles. After appropriate incubation and washing steps, the enzyme activity bound to the solid-phase is inversely related to the concentration of B 12 in the sample. Under optimized conditions, the method can detect B 12 in the range of 3×10 −10 −1×10 −8 M (using 100 μ l sample) with high selectivity over other biological molecules.Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/41626/1/604_2005_Article_BF01197285.pd
Clinical, functional and genetic characterization of 16 patients suffering from chronic granulomatous disease variants - identification of 11 novel mutations in CYBB
Chronic granulomatous disease (CGD) is a rare inherited disorder in which phagocytes lack nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate (NADPH) oxidase activity. The most common form is the X-linked CGD (X91-CGD), caused by mutations in the CYBB gene. Clinical, functional and genetic characterizations of 16 CGD cases of male patients and their relatives were performed. We classified them as suffering from different variants of CGD (X910, X91- or X91+), according to NADPH oxidase 2 (NOX2) expression and NADPH oxidase activity in neutrophils. Eleven mutations were novel (nine X910-CGD and two X91--CGD). One X910-CGD was due to a new and extremely rare double missense mutation Thr208Arg-Thr503Ile. We investigated the pathological impact of each single mutation using stable transfection of each mutated cDNA in the NOX2 knock-out PLB-985 cell line. Both mutations leading to X91--CGD were also novel; one deletion, c.-67delT, was localized in the promoter region of CYBB; the second c.253-1879A>G mutation activates a splicing donor site, which unveils a cryptic acceptor site leading to the inclusion of a 124-nucleotide pseudo-exon between exons 3 and 4 and responsible for the partial loss of NOX2 expression. Both X91--CGD mutations were characterized by a low cytochrome b558 expression and a faint NADPH oxidase activity. The functional impact of new missense mutations is discussed in the context of a new three-dimensional model of the dehydrogenase domain of NOX2. Our study demonstrates that low NADPH oxidase activity found in both X91--CGD patients correlates with mild clinical forms of CGD, whereas X910-CGD and X91+-CGD cases remain the most clinically severe forms.</p
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