Estonian and Finnish are closely related languages both exploiting duration cues contrastively; however, the quantity systems in the two languages are different. The Estonian quantity system involves three contrastive patterns referred to as short (Q1), long (Q2) and overlong (Q3) quantity degrees. These contrasts are manifested by a complex interaction of durational and tonal cues in a disylla...

Children of parents with hypertension are at increased risk of developing high blood pressure. We hypothesize that circulating concentrations of putative biomarkers (that may play a role in development of high blood pressure) are higher in nonhypertensive offspring of parents with hypertension. We compared concentrations of 4 different biomarkers (urinary albumin:creatinine ratio, circulating C...

PURPOSE Cellular fibronectin staining is decreased in adult periodontitis, which implies elastase-mediated degradation of periodontal tissues. The purpose of this study was to determine whether failing dental implants display similar changes. MATERIALS AND METHODS Cellular fibronectin and its integrin receptors were identified by immunohistochemistry and quantified by computerized image analy...

The first non-trivial cumulant correlator of the galaxy density fieldQ21 is examined from the point of view of biasing. It is shown that to leading order it depends on two biasing parameters b, and b2, and on q21, the underlying cumulant correlator of the mass. As the skewness Q3 has analogous properties, the slope of the correlation function −γ, Q3, and Q21 uniquely determine the bias paramete...

Bioinformatics techniques to Protein Secondary Structure (PSS) prediction mostly depend on the information available in amino acid sequences. In this paper, we propose a two-stage Multi-class Support Vector Machine (MSVM) approach, where the second MSVM predictor is introduced at the output of the first stage MSVM to capture the contextual relationship among secondary structure elements in orde...

Protein 3D structure prediction has always been an important research area in bioinformatics. In particular, the prediction of secondary structure has been a well-studied research topic. Despite the recent breakthrough of combining multiple sequence alignment information and artificial intelligence algorithms to predict protein secondary structure, the Q3 accuracy of various computational predi...

The structural stability of guanine quadruplexes depends critically on an unusual configuration of dehydrated Na (+) or K (+) ions, closely spaced along the central axis of the quadruplex. Crystallography and NMR spectroscopy indicate that these internal ions can be located between the G-quartet planes as well as in the thymine loops, but the precise ion coordination has been firmly established...

Hip fracture commonly results in considerable consequences in terms of disability, mortality, long-term institutional care and cost. Taiwan launched its universal health insurance coverage in 1995, which largely removes financial barriers to health care. This study aims to investigate whether socioeconomic inequality in one-year mortality exists among Taiwanese elderly people. This population-b...