Objectives: Mental health organizations are strongly encouraged to implement empirically supported treatments (ESTs), however little is known about their working environments. The present study investigated how provider demographics, workplace environment and whether ESTs were used affected the worker morale. Methods: Front-line workers (N = 1,273) from 55 different programs in a single, large ...

The goal of our research is to develop an effective and efficient clutter rejector with the use of an eigenspace transformation and a multilayer perception (MLP) that can be incorporated into an automatice target recognition (ATR) system. An eigenspace transformation is used for feature extraction and dimensionality reduction. The transformations considered in this research are principal compon...

Alternative polyadenylation is a key regulatory process which affects the 3' end formation of variants of the same transcription unit, thus altering gene expression pattern, and transcripts' cellular behaviour and characteristics. The common methodology for computational analysis of alternative polyadenylation signal utilization is based on EST data, specifically on PolyA/PolyT tailed ESTs. Stu...

Background: Micro RNAs (miRNAs) are a pivotal part of non-protein-coding endogenous small RNA molecules that regulate the genes involved in plant growth and development, and respond to biotic and abiotic environmental stresses posttranscriptionally.Objective: In the present study, we report the results of a systemic search for identifi cation of new miRNAs in B. rapa using homology-based ...

EST-derived simple sequence repeat markers (EST-SSRs) are important tools for studies on genetic diversity, phylogeny, evolution, comparative genomics, QTL analysis, and gene-based associations. We have searched the literature known EST-SSRs used Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) – one of world’s major forest species. Then, 91 102 suggested were manually aligned against reference genome Pinus ta...

Expressed sequence tags (ESTs) currently encompass more entries in the public databases than any other form of sequence data. Thus, EST data sets provide a vast resource for gene identification and expression profiling. We have mapped the complete set of 176,915 publicly available Arabidopsis EST sequences onto the Arabidopsis genome using GeneSeqer, a spliced alignment program incorporating se...

PREMISE OF THE STUDY Bombax ceiba (Malvaceae), commonly known as silk cotton tree, is a multipurpose tree species of tropical forests. Novel expressed sequence tag-simple sequence repeat (EST-SSR) markers were developed and characterized for the species using transcriptome analysis. METHODS AND RESULTS A total of 33 new EST-SSR markers were developed for B. ceiba, of which 13 showed polymorph...

Estrogen sulfotransferase (EST; SULT 1E1 or STE gene) sulfonates estrogens to inactive estrogen sulfates, whereas steroid sulfatase (STS) hydrolyzes estrone sulfate to estrone. Both EST and STS have been suggested to play important roles in regulating the in situ production of estrogens in human breast carcinoma tissues. However, the expression of EST has not been examined in breast carcinoma t...