This research focuses on the use of hand drawn marks as a human-computer input technique. Drawing a mark is an efficient command input technique in many situations. However, marks are not intrinsically self-explanatory as are other interactive techniques such as buttons and menus. This research develops and evaluates an interaction technique called marking menus which integrates menus and marks...

BACKGROUND Oxytocin (OT) is synthesized as a prohormone that is sequentially processed to peptides. These peptides are the bioactive amidated form (OT) and the C-terminal extended peptides, OT-Gly, OT-Gly-Lys and OT-Gly-Lys-Arg, which are designated together as OT-X. As an extension of our previous study finding decreased plasma OT in autism, studies were conducted to determine whether there we...

The AN comparative grammarian is favored by the large number of surviving daughter languages offering comparative testimony but handicapped by the apparently great diversity of case-marking systems among these languages, by problems in characterizing the structure of their case-marking systems, by igThe excellent work of Dahl (1973, Ch. 22) and Wolff (1973) deals with some of the same problems ...

A common feature of early speech is that children use case marking incorrectly. Several researchers have proposed that the child's mistakes are limited to the misuse of nominative case, and are corrected once the child acquires verbal morphology. In this paper I will show that this characterization of the problem is incorrect: children misuse all case forms, not just nominative case. In additio...

BACKGROUND Oxytocin (OT), synthesized in the heart, has the ability to heal injured hearts and to promote cardiomyogenesis from stem cells. Recently, we reported that the OT-GKR molecule, a processing intermediate of OT, potently increased the spontaneous formation of cardiomyocytes (CM) in embryonic stem D3 cells and augmented glucose uptake in newborn rat CM above the level stimulated by OT. ...

Majority of Bantu languages encode subjects by head-marking and objects by positional licensing. This reflects a point in the historical process whereby positional licensing of objects becomes obligatory due to the loss of inflecctional morphology. What we observe in synchronic grammar is considerable variation both across and within languages in the use of head-marking morphology for objects. ...

Oblivious transfer (OT) is an essential building block for secure multiparty computation when there is no honest majority. In this setting, current protocols for n ≥ 3 parties require each pair of parties to engage in a single OT for each gate in the circuit being evaluated. Since implementing OT typically requires expensive public-key operations (alternatively, expensive setup or physical infr...

TO THE EDITOR—Extremely drug-resistant (XDR) Acinetobacter baumannii is an opportunistic gram-negative pathogen with increasing relevance worldwide [1]. Although outbreaks of XDR A. baumannii have been reported in several settings around the world [2–4], infection control interventions to limit XDR A. baumannii transmission among patients undergoing surgical procedures have been rarely reported...

in this research degradation and mineralization of ortho-toluidine (ot) in the wastewater of petrochemical industries was investigated by uv/tio 2 process in a batch recirculating photo reactor. the influence of different variables such as initial ph, amount of tio 2 and initial concentration of ot on the reaction rate was investigated. in optimum conditions (1.75 g/l of catalyst, ph at 7 and i...