Institutional recommendation is an important factor for building trust in business or social interactions. Institutional ratings are issued by trusted authorities such as public bodies or reference publications. They assess people’s expertise, the quality of products or services or the economic health of companies among other. Institutional ratings are characterized by objective and repeatable ...

Alu elements are the most abundant transposable elements in human, which comprise 11% of the total genomic DNA and propagate by copying themselves within the genome transposing to another region. Depending on where these DNA segments land within a genome, inserted copies could have major influence directly either on the expressed phenotype, functions or facilitate other repeat-induced genomic c...

Transposable elements (TEs) occupy a large fraction of metazoan genomes and pose a constant threat to genomic integrity. This threat is particularly critical in germ cells, as changes in the genome that are induced by TEs will be transmitted to the next generation. Small noncoding piwi-interacting RNAs (piRNAs) recognize and silence a diverse set of TEs in germ cells. In mice, piRNA-guided tran...

When transposing large matrices using SDRAM memories, typically a control overhead significantly reduces the data throughput. In this paper, a new address mapping scheme is introduced, taking advantage of multiple banks and burst capabilities of modern SDRAMs. Other address mapping strategies minimize the total number of SDRAM page-opens while traversing the two-dimensional index-space in row o...

The paper is a study on natural language (NL) from the viewpoint of the conceptual model integration. The universality, unifying abilities, natural extensibility, logic and reusability of NL, as well as its morphological and syntactic stability, made the modelers think of transposing these features to object and process modeling. A correspondence is established here between the main concepts an...

Most research works about ontology or schema matching are based on symmetric similarity measures. By transposing the association rules paradigm, we propose to use asymmetric measures in order to enhance matching. We suggest an extensional and asymmetric matching method based on the discovery of significant implications between concepts described in textual documents. We use a probabilistic mode...

This study investigates how obedience in a Milgram-like experiment is predicted by interindividual differences. Participants were 35 males and 31 females aged 26-54 from the general population who were contacted by phone 8 months after their participation in a study transposing Milgram's obedience paradigm to the context of a fake television game show. Interviews were presented as opinion polls...

Two rhesus monkeys were tested for octave generalization in 8 experiments by transposing 6- and 7-note musical passages by an octave and requiring same or different judgments. The monkeys showed no octave generalization to random-synthetic melodies, atonal melodies, or individual notes. They did show complete octave generalization to childhood songs (e.g., "Happy Birthday") and tonal melodies (...

Traditionally restructuring compilers were only able to apply program transformations in order to exploit certain characteristics of the target architecture. Adaptation of data structures was limited to e.g. linearization or transposing of arrays. However, as more complex data structures are required to exploit characteristics of the data operated on, current compiler support appears to be inap...

Here X is a vector of variables, all lying in the set S. The cost vector is denoted c. A is a matrix, b a vector, and together they form the constraints on the variables. When S is the set of real numbers, the mathematical model is said to be a linear program (LP). If S is a binary set or the set of integers, the problem is an integer program (IP). If some variables in X belong to the set of re...