The Accessories severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) is responsible for the development of a highly contagious disease called coronavirus disease (COVID-19).Ten months after the onset of the pandemic, America and Europe remain the most affected regions.Initially, experts predicted that Africa, the poorest continent with the
Implications of COVID-19 for future travel behaviour in the rural periphery
Abstract Background The design, management and operation of transport systems is a complex activity and this has only been exacerbated since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.Concern has been raised over the likelihood of the public transport sector surviving in some locations given the significant drops in patronage; this is especially so in rura
Globally learning gene regulatory networks based on hidden atomic regulators from transcriptomic big data
Abstract Background Genes are regulated by various types of regulators and most of them are still unknown or unobserved.Current gene regulatory networks (GRNs) reverse engineering methods often neglect the unknown regulators and infer regulatory relationships in a local and sub-optimal manner.Results This paper proposes a global GRNs inference fram
The Impacts of International Political and Economic Events on Japanese Financial Markets
Information about the possibilities of changes in national and international macroeconomic variables affects the expectations and behavior of individuals and firms more quickly than real changes in those macroeconomic variables.In this research, we investigate the impacts of international information (news) on the financial markets in Japan.We exam