Response to Stephen Birch

Response to Stephen Holgate.

P rofessor Stephen Holgate comments on our statement that “the new UK Research Excellence Framework (REF) puts more emphasis on bibliometric data and less on peer review than did its predecessor” [1]. As the Chair of Main Panel A of REF 2014, he describes the informed peer review process in his domain. In our opinion, peer review can indeed be considered as an ideal way of evaluating research. ...

Response to Stephen Duffy

Stephen H Bryant and Stephen F Altschul

The past two years have seen the rapid development of new recognition methods for protein structure prediction. These algorithms ’thread’ the sequence of one protein through the known structure of another, looking for an alignment that corresponds to an energetically favorable model structure. Because they are based on energy calculation, rather than evolutionary distance, these methods extend ...

Differential response of aspen and birch trees to heat stress under elevated carbon dioxide.

The effect of high temperature on photosynthesis of isoprene-emitting (aspen) and non-isoprene-emitting (birch) trees were measured under elevated CO(2) and ambient conditions. Aspen trees tolerated heat better than birch trees and elevated CO(2) protected photosynthesis of both species against moderate heat stress. Elevated CO(2) increased carboxylation capacity, photosynthetic electron transp...

Application of BIRCH to text clustering

This work represents a clustering technique, based on the Balanced Iterative Reducing and Clustering using Hierarchies (BIRCH) algorithm and LSA-methods for clustering large, high dimensional datasets. We present a document model and a clustering tool for processing texts in Russian and English languages and compare our results with other clustering techniques. Experimental results for clusteri...