Gaussian processes have proved to be useful and powerful constructs for the purposes of regression. The classical method proceeds by parameterising a covariance function, and then infers the parameters given the training ...

The contamination of waterways by environmental pollutants is of growing global concern. The bio-accumulative properties of these contaminants suggest long-term impacts on many species, even those not directly exposed. ...

Generic programming has turned out very useful in the development of reusable software. With the Java programming language, genericity is not only meant for reusability, but also for type-safety. Java generics constrain a ...

The African black rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis) is critically endangered. Like other megafauna, the species is managed in parks and is often translocated to expand their range into reserves where they have been extirpated. ...

As one of the key steps in protein synthesis, translation initiation is subjected to multi-level regulation which is achieved via diverse mechanisms. The cell adjusts protein synthesis accordingly to its status and ...

Image classification is a core task in many applications of computer vision, including object detection and recognition. It aims at analysing the visual content and automatically categorising a set of images into different ...

In classification,machine learning algorithms can suffer a performance bias when data sets are unbalanced. Binary data sets are unbalanced when one class is represented by only a small number of training examples (called ...

Scheduling problems arise whenever there is a choice of order in which a number of tasks should be performed; they arise commonly, daily and everywhere. A job shop is a common manufacturing environment in which a schedule ...

Declines in global marine finfish catches, which accounts for ~15% of the animal protein consumed by humans, has caused a 6-fold increase in total reported catch of invertebrates since 1950. This has led to the over-exploitation ...

Characterizing the genome and understanding how it influences phenotypic variation is a central goal for studies on evolution. The findings of genomic research are applicable to a wide range of human endeavours, including ...