For 20+ years, Project LISTEN (www.cs.cmu.edu/~listen) has made computers listen to children read aloud, and help them learn to read. Along the way we have learned lessons about children, reading, speech technology, intelligent tutors, educational data mining, and doing AIED research in schools. 1 Some of the Research Questions Project LISTEN Has Studied Nobel laureate Herbert Simon’s annual ta...

scious state, and groaning as if in great pain. On examining him, I found the left side of the chest almost crushed in, the 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, and 7th ribs could not be felt on that side, and in their stead a large bulging air-bag was seen, which even extended to the back of the chest as far as the spine. This air-bag bulged and retracted with respiratory movements. A small opening, about ?th ...

The evergreen shrub, Kalmia latifolia L., commonly known as mountain laurel, calico bush, or sheep-kill, grows widely on rocky, acid soils in the eastern United States. Whether growing in its natural habit or in cultivation, mountain laurel appears to be equally subject to attack by fungi. The following account characterizes and discusses two of these fungi. One of them has not been described p...

Full-length cDNAs encoding crustacean cardioactive peptide (CCAP) were isolated from several decapod (brachyuran and astacuran) crustaceans: the blue crab Callinectes sapidus, green shore crab Carcinus maenas, European lobster Homarus gamarus and calico crayfish Orconectes immunis. The cDNAs encode open reading frames of 143 (brachyurans) and 139-140 (astacurans) amino acids. Apart from the pre...

Peach latent mosaic viroid (PLMVd) is a chloroplast-replicating RNA that propagates in its natural host, peach (Prunus persica), as a complex mixture of variants, some of which are endowed with specific structural and pathogenic properties. This is the case of variant PC-C40, with an insertion of 12 to 13 nucleotides that folds into a hairpin capped by a U-rich loop, which is responsible for an...

Purpose. To create pollinator lines - sterility fixers and their cytoplasmic male (CMS)-analogues to study breeding genetic features for the development of parental components CMS-based one-sprout fodder beet hybrids.
 Materials Methods. The was carried out at Tobacco Research Station National Scientific Center "IA NAAS" (Cherkaska Oblast, Uman) in 2013–2021. Four diploid populations hybri...

background: up to today, the most complete risk assessment tool for repetitive movements of upper limbs has been the occupational repetitive actions (ocra) method. the index of the analysis is relatively accurate. several risk factors such as repeated motion, force, body condition, additional effective factors and return period can be useful for future preventive measures. the present study eva...