A RNA or DNA sequence motif is a short sequence found within a particular nucleic acid sequence families. Most amino acid and nucleic acid sequences have some level of functional or structural similarities. These similarities are mostly represented by short, contiguous sequences called motif. Motif discovery is an important aspect of molecular biology. This is because the knowledge of these seq...

Enthesopathies are alterations that could be present at entheses. Two types of enthesopathies have been defined: osteophytic (OF) and osteolytic (OL). In the present paper, we propose a standardized method to score the degree of development of each form of enthesopathy. With this method, the intra- and interobserver errors are less than 50%. The standard was used to study a sample (113 individu...

In today's scenario web services have become a magnificent paradigm as the Web is moving towards a collection of services that interoperate through the Internet. Pooled with Semantic Web technologies, Web Services can be definitely interpreted and selected based on the consumers' requirements. In this paper an attempt has been made to apply LSP (Logic Scoring Preference) method with O...

Automatically scoring open questions in massively multiuser virtual courses is still an unsolved challenge. In most online platforms, the time consuming process of evaluating student answers is up to the instructor. Especially unexpressed semantic structures can be considered problematic for machines. Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA) is an attempt to solve this problem in the domain of informatio...

This paper presents a method for identifying non-English speech, with the aim of supporting an automated speech proficiency scoring system for non-native speakers. The method uses a popular technique from the language identification domain, a single phone recognizer followed by multiple languagedependent language models. This method determines the language of a speech sample based on the phonot...

Two different and interrelated steps are involved in the assessment of active sweat glands: stimulation of sweating and its subsequent recording and quantification. Sweat activation has been promoted by simple thermal stimulation, by intradermal injection of drugs such as methylcholine, and by dermal introduction of such drugs using iontophoresis. Gibson and Cooke’s device for iontophoresis, on...

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Where data based decision making is taking over businesses and elite sports, elite soccer is lacking behind. In elite soccer, decisions are still often based on emotions and recent results. As results are, however, dependent on many aspects, the reasons for these results are currently unknown by the elite soccer clubs. In our study, a method is proposed to determine the expected winner of a mat...

Credit scoring has become very important issue due to the recent growth of the credit industry, so the credit department of the bank faces a large amount of credit data. Clearly it is impossible analyzing this huge amount of data both in economic and manpower terms, so data mining techniques were employed for this purpose. So far many data mining methods are proposed to handle credit scoring pr...

Current histological investigation of vaginal swabs after alleged sexual assault includes the scoring of spermatozoa (0, + to ++++) and the recording of visible tails. It is a method that is universally employed. Despite this method being used for 40 years, there has never been a study investigating its suitability for forensic science. Here, we investigate the reproducibility and subjectivity ...