Following the CMS Cathode Strip Chamber Beam Test of Summer 2004, experimental validation of the performance of CMS Track-Finder Trigger is necessary. This study focuses on the analysis of the beam profile, φ distribution fits, the beam scattering due to iron blocks in the muon beam path, and the comparison of the Track-Finder Trigger hardware output to a software simulation. Employing statisti...

CD95 (APO-1/Fas) is a death receptor used by immune cells to kill cancer cells through induction of apoptosis. However, the elimination of CD95 or its ligand, CD95L, from cancer cells results in death induced by CD95R/L elimination (DICE), a type of cell death that resembles a necrotic form of mitotic catastrophe suggesting that CD95 protects cancer cells from cell death. We now report that sti...

This paper describes some recent results regarding the employment of natural language processing techniques in the FAQ FINDER system. FAQ FINDER is a natural language question-answering system that uses files of frequently-asked questions as its knowledge base. Unlike AI questionanswering systems that focus on the generation of new answers, FAQ FINDER retrieves existing ones found in frequently...

Pronunciation-translated names (P-Names) bring more ambiguities to Chinese word segmentation and generic named entity recognition. As there are few annotated resources that can be used to develop a good P-Name extraction system, this paper presents a bootstrapping algorithm, called PN-Finder, to tackle this problem. Starting from a small set of P-Name characters and context cue-words, the algor...

The comprehensive identification of functional transcription factor binding sites (TFBSs) is an important step in understanding complex transcriptional regulatory networks. This study presents a motif-based comparative approach, STAT-Finder, for identifying functional DNA binding sites of STAT3 transcription factor. STAT-Finder combines STAT-Scanner, which was designed to predict functional STA...

This paper introduces DICE, a Domain-Independent text Classification Engine. DICE is robust, efficient, and domain-independent in terms of software and architecture. Each module of the system is clearly modularized and encapsulated for extensibility. The clear modular architecture allows for simple and continuous verification and facilitates changes in multiple cycles, even after its major deve...

The ability to control individual spins (the intrinsic units of angular momentum carried by electrons) in semiconductors is an important requirement for a new generation of devices based on spin rather than charge logic. Single magnetic ions are promising for this type of application because of their long spin coherence times. The difficulty lies in addressing these stable but isolated spins, a...