With the determination of its genome sequence the utility of the sea urchin model system increases. The phylogenetic position of the sea urchin among the deuterostomes allows for informative comparisons to vertebrate research models. A combined whole genome shotgun and bacterial artificial chromosome based strategy yielded a high quality draft genome sequence of 814 Mb. The predicted gene set e...

How can grammar be viewed as a functional part of a cognitive system) Given a neural basis for the processing control paradigm of language performance, what roles does 'Sgrammar" play? Is there evidence to suggest that grammatical processing can be independent from other aspects of language processing? This paper wi l l focus on these issues and suggest answers within the context of one computa...

the subject of the research is to understand and study the social and cotextual backgrounds of participation in a developmental experience, that is, the process of supplying pipedwater from 6 klms away to zilan village in javanrood township. this study is run using qualitative methods, deep interview teqniques and observations and it is analyzed through ground theory. if a plannable action and ...

About 2-2 1/2 million people do, or will repeatedly, participate in ano-rectal sexual intercourse in Britain alone. The anus and the rectum of these individuals are thus vulnerable to all the sexually transmitted diseases (except trichomoniasis). Male homosexuals appear to be more prone to these conditions than female heterosexuals, possibly because a large minority is indiscriminately promiscu...

Motivation: The Gene Ontology (GO) is now the standard for describing gene and protein functions. By studying the protein function space as described by the GO, we can improve the quality of functional predictions and automated annotations and ultimately, the quality of the GO structure. Results and Conclusions: We present an approach for the large scale study of the protein function space, and...

In this paper I take the view, common among statisticians, that a design is an allocation of a set Γ of n treatments to a set Ω of plots: see [2]. (The word plot does not necessarily denote a piece of ground: it is used for any type of experimental unit.) Thus the design may be thought of as a function f from Ω onto Γ: plot ω receives treatment γ if f(ω) = γ. If Ω is partitioned into blocks the...

It is known that the box dimension of any Martin-Löf random closed set of {0, 1}N is log2( 43 ). Barmpalias et al. [Journal of Logic and Computation, Vol. 17, No. 6 (2007)] gave one method of producing such random closed sets and then computed the box dimension, and posed several questions regarding other methods of construction. We outline a method using random recursive constructions for comp...

Nonlinear dimensionality reduction methods are commonly used for two purposes: (i) as preprocessing methods to reduce the number of input variables or to represent the inputs in terms of more natural variables describing the embedded data manifold, or (ii) for making the data set more understandable, by making the similarity relationships between data points explicit through visualizations. The...

In spite of a wide recommendation of supervision in training and continuous education in mental health, professional literature on the problem is relatively scarce. Majority of publications listed in the data bases concern rather clinical supervision then specific psychotherapy supervision. Supervision has originated within psychoanalysis, as continuation of training analysis, to develop later ...