The time required to transcribe genes with long primary transcripts may limit their ability to be expressed in cells with short mitotic cycles, a phenomenon termed intron delay. As such short cycles are a hallmark of the earliest stages of insect development, we tested the impact of intron delay on the Drosophila developmental transcriptome. We find that long zygotically expressed genes show su...

The time required to transcribe genes with long primary transcripts may limit their ability to be expressed in cells with short mitotic cycles, a phenomenon termed intron delay. As such short cycles are a hallmark of the earliest stages of insect development, we tested the impact of intron delay on the Drosophila developmental transcriptome. We find that long zygotically expressed genes show su...

Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons Volume 12 Number 2 Summer 2007 34 Development of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) has opened awhole newwindow on the brain. Patients with severely impaired consciousness, who were previously thought to be incapable of cognitive or sensory function, have been found, with the use of fMRI, to have stimulus-activated cortical networks, despite...

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IT may appear blasphemous to paraphrase the title of the classic article of Vannevar Bush but it may be a mitigating factor that it is done to pay tribute to another legendary scientist, Eugene Garfield. His ideas of citationbased searching, resource discovery and quantitative evaluation of publications serve as the basis for many of the most innovative and powerful online information services ...

The field of Digital Humanities continues to change and evolve rapidly, as we utilise, appropriate, and develop internet, communication, and computational technologies. In this plenary, a specific focus will be placed on one individual project – The Transcribe Bentham project at UCL k/transcribe-bentham/) – as a viewpoint through which to witness the changing demands and needs placed on those w...

This article reports a contrastive experiment about the use of Text-To-Speech (TTS) synthesis instead of prerecorded utterances in a dictation exercise submitted to students of European Portuguese as a second language (PSL). Forty sentences were extracted from a PSL student book. Twenty of them were synthesized and the other twenty were directly taken from the pre-recorded audio documents of th...

This study provides a detailed analysis of the existing problems with nuclear safeguards and material accounting in Russia by comparing the existing situation both to U.S. methods and to the system of controls that existed in the Soviet era. It also examines recent U.S. efforts under the Nunn-Lugar initiative to improve safeguards and the system of material accounting and control. Finally, it c...