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The Israeli Unit 8200 – An OSINT-based study
(2019)CSS Cyberdefense Trend AnalysesThis trends analysis reviews the historical, operational, organizational and cultural background of the Israeli 8200 Unit, a signals intelligence unit (SIGINT). It also provides an assessment of the unit’s core strengths and weaknesses. In addition to outlining some evidence of its prolific activities (e.g. operation Orchard or Stuxnet), the report finds that the Unit’s core strengths include its human and financial resources, institutional ...Report -
Knowledge-Induced Learning with Adaptive Sampling Variational Autoencoders for Open Set Fault Diagnostics
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A Weighted Balance Model of Opinion Hyperpolarization
(2019)SocArXivPolarization is threatening the stability of democratic societies. Until now, polarization research has focused on opinion extremeness, overlooking the correlation between different policy issues. We explain the emergence of hyperpolarization, i.e. the combination of extremeness and correlation between issues, by developing Weighted Balance Theory (WBT), a new theory of opinion formation. WBT extends Heiders cognitive balance theory to ...Working Paper -
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Revisiting microbe-metabolite interactions: doing better than random
(2019)bioRxivRecently, Quinn and Erb et al [1] made the case that when used correctly, correlation and proportionality can outperform MMvec when identifying microbe-metabolite interactions. We revisit this comparison and show that the proposed correlation and proportionality are outperformed by MMvec on real data due to their inability to deal with sparsity commonly observed in microbiome and metabolome datasets.Working Paper -
Structure and function of a neocortical synapse
(2019)bioRxivThirty-four years since the small nervous system of the nematode C. elegans was manually reconstructed in the electron microscope (EM)1, ‘high-throughput’ EM techniques now enable the dense reconstruction of neural circuits within increasingly large brain volumes at synaptic resolution2–6. As with C. elegans, however, a key limitation for inferring brain function from neuronal wiring diagrams is that it remains unknown how the structure ...Working Paper -
ENERGYSCAPE - Empfehlungen für eine Landschaftsentwicklung durch Anlagen erneuerbarer Energien in der Schweiz
(2019)Das NFP 70-Projekt «ENERGYSCAPE» untersuchte systematisch die gesellschaftlichen Präferenzen für eine Landschaftsentwicklung durch eine Kombination verschiedener Infrastrukturen erneuerbarer Energien mit einer Online-Panel-Befragung und einem Laborexperiment. Welche der untersuchten Landschaftsszenarien die für die Schweiz repräsentative Auswahl von Befragten bevorzugt, erklärt sich durch die Landschaft und die Wahrnehmung ihrer Struktur, ...Report