BRS Embaixador: feijão comum para o mercado internacional com grão vermelho escuro grande - tipo DRK.

Vislumbrando um crescimento de feijões para o mercado internacional o programa de melhoramento genético do feijoeiro comum da Embrapa Arroz e Feijão tem trabalhado na busca de cultivares para atender as novas demandas, possibilitando ao agricultor ofertar produto de maior valor agregado e melhores rendimentos com a cultura. Com este objetivo indica-se a cultivar de feijão BRS Embaixador, com tipo de grão comercial vermelho escuro grande (Dark Red Kidney), para o plantio na época de "inverno", no Estado de Goiás.bitstream/CNPAF-2009-09/27958/1/comt_156.pd

A Wide and Deep Neural Network for Survival Analysis from Anatomical Shape and Tabular Clinical Data

We introduce a wide and deep neural network for prediction of progression from patients with mild cognitive impairment to Alzheimer's disease. Information from anatomical shape and tabular clinical data (demographics, biomarkers) are fused in a single neural network. The network is invariant to shape transformations and avoids the need to identify point correspondences between shapes. To account for right censored time-to-event data, i.e., when it is only known that a patient did not develop Alzheimer's disease up to a particular time point, we employ a loss commonly used in survival analysis. Our network is trained end-to-end to combine information from a patient's hippocampus shape and clinical biomarkers. Our experiments on data from the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative demonstrate that our proposed model is able to learn a shape descriptor that augments clinical biomarkers and outperforms a deep neural network on shape alone and a linear model on common clinical biomarkers.Comment: Data and Machine Learning Advances with Multiple Views Workshop, ECML-PKDD 201

BRS Ártico: cultivar de feijão-comum de grãos brancos com padrão para exportação.

A cultivar de feijão-comum com grãos brancos BRS Ártico apresenta ciclo semiprecoce, bom potencial produtivo e grãos de qualidade que atendem às exigências do mercado interno brasileiro e possibilitam também sua comercialização no mercado internacional. A BRS Ártico é indicada para os seguintes Estados e épocas de semeadura: inverno, para os estados de Goiás, Distrito Federal, Mato Grosso, Tocantins, Maranhão, Bahia, Espírito Santo e Rio de Janeiro; águas e seca, para o Estado do Paraná.bitstream/item/144920/1/CNPAF-2016-com-tec-234.pd

A multi-disciplinary perspective on emergent and future innovations in peer review [version 2; referees: 2 approved]

Peer review of research articles is a core part of our scholarly communication system. In spite of its importance, the status and purpose of peer review is often contested. What is its role in our modern digital research and communications infrastructure? Does it perform to the high standards with which it is generally regarded? Studies of peer review have shown that it is prone to bias and abuse in numerous dimensions, frequently unreliable, and can fail to detect even fraudulent research. With the advent of web technologies, we are now witnessing a phase of innovation and experimentation in our approaches to peer review. These developments prompted us to examine emerging models of peer review from a range of disciplines and venues, and to ask how they might address some of the issues with our current systems of peer review. We examine the functionality of a range of social Web platforms, and compare these with the traits underlying a viable peer review system: quality control, quantified performance metrics as engagement incentives, and certification and reputation. Ideally, any new systems will demonstrate that they out-perform and reduce the biases of existing models as much as possible. We conclude that there is considerable scope for new peer review initiatives to be developed, each with their own potential issues and advantages. We also propose a novel hybrid platform model that could, at least partially, resolve many of the socio-technical issues associated with peer review, and potentially disrupt the entire scholarly communication system. Success for any such development relies on reaching a critical threshold of research community engagement with both the process and the platform, and therefore cannot be achieved without a significant change of incentives in research environments

BRS Executivo: feijão comum com tipo de grão cranberry para o mercado internacional.

O Programa de Melhoramento Genético do Feijoeiro Comum da Embrapa Arroz e Feijão, atento às novas tendências do mercado, está focado na busca de cultivares para atender as novas demandas, possibilitando ao agricultor ofertar um produto de maior valor e auferir melhores rendimentos com a cultura. É com esta filosofia que está sendo indicada a cultivar de feijoeiro comum BRS Executivo, com tipo de grão comercial Rajado (Cranberry), para o plantio na época de "Inverno", no Estado de Goiás.bitstream/CNPAF-2009-09/27949/1/comt_157.pd

BRS Executivo - feijão comum com tipo de grão Cranberry para o mercado internacional.

O programa de melhoramento genético do feijoeiro comum da Embrapa Arroz e Feijão, acreditando nessas novas tendências do mercado, está focado na busca de cultivares para atender as novas demandas, possibilitando ao agricultor ofertar um produto de maior valor agregado e auferir melhores rendimentos com a cultura. É com este objetivo que está sendo indicada a cultivar de feijão BRS Executivo, com tipo de grão comercial rajado (Cranberry), para o plantio na época de ?inverno?, no Estado de Goiás

The Medical Genome Reference Bank contains whole genome and phenotype data of 2570 healthy elderly

Population health research is increasingly focused on the genetic determinants of healthy ageing, but there is no public resource of whole genome sequences and phenotype data from healthy elderly individuals. Here we describe the first release of the Medical Genome Reference Bank (MGRB), comprising whole genome sequence and phenotype of 2570 elderly Australians depleted for cancer, cardiovascular disease, and dementia. We analyse the MGRB for single-nucleotide, indel and structural variation in the nuclear and mitochondrial genomes. MGRB individuals have fewer disease-associated common and rare germline variants, relative to both cancer cases and the gnomAD and UK Biobank cohorts, consistent with risk depletion. Age-related somatic changes are correlated with grip strength in men, suggesting blood-derived whole genomes may also provide a biologic measure of age-related functional deterioration. The MGRB provides a broadly applicable reference cohort for clinical genetics and genomic association studies, and for understanding the genetics of healthy ageing