When performing musical sequences, people plan actions to produce acoustic events that communicate thoughts and emotions (for reviews see Gabrielsson, 1999; 2003; Jones & Holleran, 1992; Juslin & Sloboda, 2001; Palmer, 1997; Sloboda, 1982; 1985; 2005). Sequence production in contexts such as music and speech involves communicating a message through sound, a process that is probably guided by mo...

qPCR (quantitative polymerase chain reaction) and random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) were utilized to investigate genetic stability of Palmer amaranth cloned plants over 10 generations. DNA from original parent Palmer amaranth plants (grown from seeds) was re-analyzed using qPCR, and confidence levels for determining ∆∆Ct (threshold crossing) values were established. ANOVA was used to dete...

BACKGROUND This study compared the results of patients treated for ulnar impaction syndrome using an ulnar shortening osteotomy (USO) alone with those treated with combined arthroscopic debridement and USO. METHODS The results of 27 wrists were reviewed retrospectively. They were divided into three groups: group A (USO alone, 10 cases), group B (combined arthroscopic debridement and USO, 9 ca...

This paper introduces a new similarity measure based on edge counting in a taxonomy like WorldNet or Ontology. Measurement of similarity between text segments or concepts is very useful for many applications like information retrieval, ontology matching, text mining, and question answering and so on. Several measures have been developed for measuring similarity between two concepts: out of thes...

In young mammals protein deposition in muscle may account for up to 60% of the daily deposition of protein. Merely by virtue of the fact that the skeletal musculature may account for 50% of total body protein, this tissue is likely to play a major role in the changes in the protein economy of the body that accompany trauma and infection. Protein synthesis in skeletal muscle is particularly sens...

Drought management depends on indicators to detect drought conditions, and triggers to activate drought responses. But determining those indicators and triggers presents challenges. Indicators often lack spatial and temporal transferability, comparability among scales, and relevance to critical drought impacts. Triggers often lack statistical integrity, consistency among drought categories, and...