Over the last few years, several initiatives have described efforts to combine previously invented techniques in molecular biology with parallel detection principles to sequence or genotype DNA signatures. The Infinium system from Illumina and the Affymetrix GeneChips are two systems suitable for whole-genome scoring of variable positions. However, directed candidate-gene approaches are more co...

We address the question of the relationship between two time series associated to the speech signal. The first one is the sonority function which was introduced in Galves et al. (2002) as an index of the local regularity of the speech signal. The second time series is the intra-oral pressure during the production of speech. We argue that the joint evolution of both time series can be well descr...

This study presents articulatory data on the durational and timing characteristics of Russian onset clusters and their change as a function of speaking rate. While there is increasing evidence that languages differ systematically in their consonant-to-consonant timing, little is known on whether this difference also entails different implementations of speaking rate changes. Russian contrasts w...

Nanopore sequencing has the potential to become a direct, fast, and inexpensive DNA sequencing technology. The simplest form of nanopore DNA sequencing utilizes the hypothesis that individual nucleotides of single-stranded DNA passing through a nanopore will uniquely modulate an ionic current flowing through the pore, allowing the record of the current to yield the DNA sequence. We demonstrate ...

Deep sequencing is a powerful and cost-effective tool to characterize the genetic diversity and evolution of virus populations. While modern sequencing instruments readily cover viral genomes many thousand fold and very rare variants can in principle be detected, sequencing errors, amplification biases, and other artifacts can limit sensitivity and complicate data interpretation. For this reaso...

This study considers modern instrumental and vocal-instrumental bandura performance with regard to the aspects of timbre sonority. The latter influence innovative experiments in field most. Modern compositions for are marked by expansion ofstylistic attributes; use a wide range new techniques elements polystylistics, classical genre prototypes, most recent technologies (aleatorics, cluster, lay...