A mouse in the spotlight: Response capacity to artificial light at night in a rodent pest species, the southern multimammate mouse (Mastomys coucha).

Multimammate mice are prolific breeders, can cause significant agricultural damage, and are reservoir hosts for a number of pathogens. They are nocturnal and given their success in urbanised rural environments, we were interested in how they would respond to increasingly bright anthropogenic spaces. We evaluated the locomotor activity of southern multimammate mice (Mastomys coucha), under four treatments: in an outdoor enclosure with natural light and temperature fluctuations, in a laboratory under a standard light regime, and two artificial light at night (ALAN) regimes (2 Lux) of varying proximity.

Tolerant mothers: aggression does not explain solitary living in the bush Karoo rat.

Many mammal species are thought to adopt solitary living owing to mothers becoming intolerant of adult offspring and the occurrence of social intolerance between adults. However, field studies on how solitary mammals interact are rare. Here we show that solitary living can occur without social intolerance.

Comparative Evaluation of Convolutional Neural Network Object Detection Algorithms for Vehicle Detection.

The domain of object detection was revolutionized with the introduction of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) in the field of computer vision. This article aims to explore the architectural intricacies, methodological differences, and performance characteristics of three CNN-based object detection algorithms, namely Faster Region-Based Convolutional Network (R-CNN), You Only Look Once v3 (YOLO), and Single Shot MultiBox Detector (SSD) in the specific domain application of vehicle detection. The findings of this study indicate that the SSD object detection algorithm outperforms the other approaches in terms of both performance and processing speeds.

Detecting HRD in whole-genome and whole-exome sequenced breast and ovarian cancers.

Breast and ovarian cancers harboring homologous recombination deficiency (HRD) are sensitive to PARP inhibitors and platinum chemotherapy. Conventionally, detecting HRD involves screening for defects in , , and other relevant genes. Recent analyses have shown that HRD cancers exhibit characteristic mutational patterns due to the activities of HRD-associated mutational signatures.