Transfer learning through large pre-trained models has changed the landscape of current applications in natural language processing (NLP). Recently Optimus, a variational autoencoder (VAE) which combines two pre-trained models, BERT and GPT-2, has been released, and its...

Introduction: This research aimed at verifying the effects of highly diluted (HD) treatments on cauliflower (Brassica oleracea L.) plants both healthy and inoculated by the fungus Alternaria brassicicola, causing the dark leaf spot disease. In vitro spore germination as...

One of the major criticisms directed to basic research on high dilution effects is the lack of a steady statistical approach; therefore, it seems crucial to fix some milestones in statistical analysis of this kind of experimentation. Since plant research in homeopathy h...

The last few years have seen the emergence of IoT processors: ultra-low power systems-on-chips (SoCs) combining lightweight and flexible micro-controller units (MCUs), often based on open-ISA RISC-V cores, with application-specific accelerators to maximize performance a...

The aim of this work is to confirm the theoretical possibility of an epigenetic mechanism shared between EMIT and UHD. The presentation will be divided in three sections:
 1. Water aggregates with an electric dipole moment (UHD succussed solutions) as mediators of ...

This work consists of a brief discussion regarding the semantic aspects contained in Pandectarum sive partitionum universalium... or Pandectae (1548) of Conrad Gesner (1516-1556). It situates the contributions of Gesner in the field of Knowledge Organization (KO) from a...

Cities are increasingly defined as one of the most important actors in the transition to a climate-neutral Europe. The reasons are multiple, and some of them are the increasing number of inhabitants and the demographic trends; the percentage of emissions produced by the...

International audience; This work proposes a distributed control strategy for the robust global leader-follower phase synchronization of Kuramoto oscillators with inertia. For a convenient design, the phase angles are represented as elements of the unit circle. In parti...

International audience; Flow in formations having both low-porosity and low-permeability prevalently occurs in fracture networks. Fracture connectivity and permeability are the main features governing flow in these media, and affect the effectiveness of any subsurface o...

Reliable analytical models are needed for the estimation of the maximum strength and ductility of corroded cables, in order to assess the safety level of existing structures exposed to corrosion (especially bridges in which post-tension technology with following mortar ...