Fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) utilizes fluorescent probes to bind portions of DNA that have a high degree of sequence complementarity. This allows researchers to detect and localize specific DNA sequences on chromosomes or RNA targets in various cell and tissue types to determine the spatial-temporal patterns of gene expression within. In medicine, FISH can be used to diagnose or ev...

Silver nanocrystals grown on a poly(dG)-poly(dC) double stranded DNA scaffold displayed circular dichroism at their surface plasmon excitation band. This chiral plasmon signature was not observed in a control experiment where silver nanocrystals of similar size were produced without the DNA template and adsorbed to the DNA. It is concluded that the DNA templated Ag nanocrystals had a preferred ...

This work presents the concept of a monolithic concrete-integrated dye-synthesized photovoltaic solar cell for optical-to-electrical energy conversion and on-site power generation. The transport measurements carried out in the dark revealed the presence of VOC of ~190 mV and ISC of ~9 μA, induced by the electrochemical conversion of concrete-supplied ionic impurities at the electrodes. The curr...

When compared to human speech, synthesized speech is distinguished by insu cient intelligibility, inappropriate prosody and inadequate expressiveness. These are serious drawbacks for conversational computer systems. Intelligibility is basic | intelligible phonemes are necessary for word recognition. Prosody | intonation (melody) and rhythm | clari es syntax and semantics and aids in discourse o...

We present a generative framework for generalized zeroshot learning where the training and test classes are not necessarily disjoint. Built upon a variational autoencoder based architecture, consisting of a probabilistic encoder and a probabilistic conditional decoder, our model can generate novel exemplars from seen/unseen classes, given their respective class attributes. These exemplars can s...

Recently helical nanostructures such as nanosprings and nanocoils have drawn great interests in nanotechnology, due to their unique morphologies and physical properties, and they may be potential building blocks in sorts of electromechanical, magnetic, photoelectronic and plasmonic devices at micro/nanoscales. In this report, multi-turns copper nanocoils were synthesized through a modified solv...

Speakers convey much of the information hearers use to interpret discourse by varying prosodic features such as phrasing, pitch accent placement, tune, and pitch range. The ability to emulate such variation is crucial to e ective (synthetic) speech generation. While text-tospeech synthesis must rely primarily upon structural information to determine appropriate intonational features, speech syn...

Software components are today the most promising approach to dealing with the complexity and uneven quality of software systems. The design-using-components paradigm has been extremely successful in almost every engineering field, with its benefits of rapid, routine, reliable system construction. The central dilemma of software design using components is that component developers cannot know ho...

In this paper we analyse the effect of speech corpus and compression method on the intelligibility of synthesized speech at fast rates. We recorded English and German language voice talents at a normal and a fast speaking rate and trained an HSMMbased synthesis system based on the normal and the fast data of each speaker. We compared three compression methods: scaling the variance of the state ...

For technologies with significant interconnection delays, optimal clock period selection before/during high-level synthesis is not practical. In our approach, we start with a synthesized RTL data path structure, perform place and route and back-annotate the interconnection delays. A set of potentially optimal clock periods are chosen by evaluating 'critical' paths to minimize the dead time asso...