When a plane breaks the sound barrier, the noise reverberates for miles around. The advent of e-pedagogy produced no sonic boom, but the message educators are getting rings loud and clear. Technology is a potentially powerful tool for more effective teaching and deeper learning. Used wisely and well, it may break down barriers to learning that traditional classroom-based instruction has uninten...

The inner regions of accretion disks of weakly magnetized neutron stars are affected by general relativistic gravity and stellar magnetic fields. Even for field strengths sufficiently small so that there is no well-defined magnetosphere surrounding the neutron star, there is still a region in the disk where magnetic field stress plays an important dynamical role. We construct magnetic slim disk...

English. Presence of regional and minority languages over digital media is an indicator of their vitality. In this paper, we want to investigate quantitative aspects of the use on Facebook of the Sardinian language. In particular, we want to focus on the co-existence of diatopic varieties. We extracted linguistic data from public pages and, through the translation of the most frequent words, we...

Chao Ma1 [email protected] Xiaokang Yang1 [email protected] Chongyang Zhang1 [email protected] Xiang Ruan2 [email protected] Ming-Hsuan Yang3 [email protected] 1 Institute of Image Communication and Network Engineering Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai, China 2 Omron Coporation Kyoto, Japan 3 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science University of California, Merced Calif...

Let X and Y be sequences of integers. A common increasing subsequence of X and Y is an increasing subsequence common to X and Y . In this note, we propose an O(|X| · |Y |)-time and O(|X| + |Y |)-space algorithm for finding one of the longest common increasing subsequences of X and Y , which improves the space complexity of Yang et al. [I.H. Yang, C.P. Huang, K.M. Chao, A fast algorithm for comp...

Since the official date of implementation of the Database Directive, namely 1 January 1998, 14 years have now already passed. During this decade and a half, French courts have handed down around 30 decisions on database protection. [2] Between 1998 and 2004, the year when the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) handed down its first four parallel rulings on the sui generis right, the ...

PURPOSE To identify a casual pathway between the alteration in visual experience, due to form deprivation and hyperopic defocus, and the increase in eye growth, we searched for candidate genes having regulatory effects on eye growth under myopic conditions. METHODS The expression of the brain-derived neurotrophic factor, neurotrophin-3, sonic hedgehog, nerve growth factor, Six-3 and the Lh-2 ...

Over the years the environmental potential of urban parks has attracted increasingly attention. In order to preserve their positive influence for communities, the sonic environment perception (soundscape) must be considered too. Urban parks’ sonic environment is influenced by attenders moving around; indeed, walking sounds have very high occurrence in such contexts. However, studies investigati...

The characteristics of the particle distribution, evolution and movement in a sonic jet release of carbon dioxide (CO2) from a high pressure reservoir are investigated. The motivation is to numerically model the sonic jet with particles,using the hitherto unknown initial particle distribution measured herein,and hence understand and numerically reproduce the experimentally observedparticle beha...

We analysed the role of Notch signalling during the specification of the dorsal midline in Xenopus embryos. By activating or blocking the pathway we found that Notch expands the floor plate domain of sonic hedgehog and pintallavis and represses the notochordal markers chordin and brachyury, with a concomitant reduction of the notochord size. We propose that within a population of the early orga...