We examined the contents of language-mediated prediction in toddlers by investigating the extent to which toddlers are sensitive to visual shape representations of upcoming words. Previous studies with adults suggest limits to the degree to which information about the visual form of a referent is predicted during language comprehension in low constraint sentences. Toddlers (30-month-olds) heard...

Briefly, SCAN is a single-sample approach for gene-expression microarrays. This means that the output for a given microarray sample will be the same whether that sample is processed in isolation or jointly with other samples. The probe-sequence content within each microarray is used to correct for binding-affinity biases that can arise during processing and to standardize variances across the p...

Cell segmentation from microscopic images is the first stage of the automatic biomedical image processing, which plays a crucial role in the study of cell behaviour which is a very difficult and tedious task because of the variation that exist in illumination and dye concentration of the cells due to the staining procedure. This paper proposes a new method for segmentation of cervical cell nucl...

" Security played a significant role in the development of formal methods in the 70s and early 80s. Have the tables turned? Are formal methods now ready to play a significant role in the development of more secure systems? While not a panacea, the answer is yes, formal methods can and should play such a role. In this paper we first review the limits of formal methods. Then after a brief histori...

There is a variety of methods used for growing plants indoor for laboratory research. In most cases plant research requires germination and growth of plants. Often, people have adapted plant cultivation protocols to the conditions and materials at hand in their own laboratory and growth facilities. Here I will provide a guide for growing some of the most frequently used plant species for resear...