to achieve a breakthrough in the World Trade Organization’s Doha Round. Their goal is to get an agreement by the end of 2008. Developing countries should pull the plug on this moribund round until rich countries can agree to a new framework that lives up to Doha’s promise to be a “Development Round” that favours poorer countries. As rich country leaders try to rally negotiators for yet another ...

Intron retention, one of the most prevalent alternative splicing events in plants, can lead to introns retained in mature mRNAs. However, in comparison with constitutively spliced introns (CSIs), the relevantly distinguishable features for retained introns (RIs) are still poorly understood. This work proposes a computational pipeline to discover novel RIs from multiple next-generation RNA seque...

Background.The aim of the present study was to assess the prevalence of insomnia in chronic tinnitus and the association of tinnitus distress and sleep disturbance.Methods. We retrospectively analysed data of 182 patients with chronic tinnitus who completed the Tinnitus Questionnaire (TQ) and the Regensburg Insomnia Scale (RIS). Descriptive comparisons with the validation sample of the RIS incl...

We thank Rastogi for pointing out a number of factual errors in our article, and welcome this opportunity to correct several scientific misunderstandings that have crept into his manuscript. Rastogi is in agreement with our statements and conclusions concerning the seismicity in the Jaitapur region that: (a) no significant M > 6 earthquakes have been recorded by seismographs located within 50 k...

A railway interlocking system (RIS) plays a vital role in the safe transportation of a railway system. It is responsible for the safe routes of trains making sure that each train movement follows the other in a proper and safe sequence. Detailed verifications and evaluations are mandatory before deploying an RIS, since it is a safety critical system (SCS). But the increasing complexity of the R...

Using the simple ETAS branching model of seismicity, which assumes that each earthquake can trigger other earthquakes, we quantify the role played by the cascade of triggered seismicity in controlling the rate of aftershock decay as well as in the overall level of seismicity in the presence of a constant external seismicity source. We show that, in this model, the proportion of triggered seismi...

Abstract Fault reactivation and associated microseismicity pose a potential threat to industrial processes involving fluid injection into the subsurface. In this research, fracture criticality, defined as gradient of critical pressure change trigger seismicity (Δ p c / h ), is proposed novel reservoir depth-independent metric fault slip susceptibility. Based on statistics probabilistic evaluati...

Abstract After the completion of Three Gorges Dam, it increases risk inducing an earthquake. We use GRACE Gravity Field Model to analyze relationship between operation Reservoir and change gravity field in western Sichuan. The research results indicate that reservoir water level Sichuan gravitational are positively correlated. In early stage rising level, is not apparent, gradually with time. T...

In the year 2000, an anomalous sequence of off-fault seismicity was detected near Lake Pillsbury in northern California. The seismicity was interpreted by Hayes et al. (2005, 2006) to be associated with a dike injection. I completed a gravity survey over the location of the seismicity and used that data in gravity modeling, to test the hypothesis that the seismicity was directly linked to the i...

Summary Fault slip induced by fluid perturbation in shale formations may only lead to as sparse seismicity. However, fault strongly impact the integrity of that serve caprocks for geological reservoirs holding buoyant fluids such CO2, natural gas, or hydrogen. A better understanding reactivation processes and seismic triggering process is therefore critical reservoir monitoring stability. Here ...