Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) play an important role in gene regulation and are involving in diverse cellular processes. However, their roles in reprogramming of gene expression profiles during lineage commitment and maturation of mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) remain poorly understood. In the current study, we characterize the expression of a lncRNA, HoxA-AS3, during the differentiation of MSC...

The quantum color coding scheme proposed by Korff and Kempe [1] is easily extended so that the color coding quantum system is allowed to be entangled with an extra auxiliary quantum system. It is shown that in the extended scheme we need only ∼ 2 √ N quantum colors to order N objects in large N limit, whereas ∼ N/e quantum colors are required in the original non-extended version. The maximum su...

In this paper we propose a fast reconstruction method for a progressive subband-decomposed signal coding system. It is shown that unlike the normal approach which contains a xed computational complexity, the computational complexity of the proposed approach is proportional to the number of reened coeecients. Therefore, using the proposed approach in image coding applications, we can update the ...

The discovery of the genetic code was one of the most important advances of modern biology. But there is more to a DNA code than protein sequence; DNA carries signals for splicing, localization, folding, and regulation that are often embedded within the protein-coding sequence. In this issue, Itzkovitz and Alon show that the specific 64-to-20 mapping found in the genetic code may have been opti...

Multiple description coding of images can be implemented as preand post-processing by means of simple splitting of the pixels into subimages. A controllable amount of extra redundancy is inserted in order to improve estimation quality in case of one descriptor reception. This redundancy is usually inserted in a uniform spatial fashion. In this papers we propose a novel preand post-processing me...

We describe a testbed which can be used to investigate diierent codings for automatic face recognition. An eigenface coding of shape-free faces, based on manually coded landmarks was found to be more eeective than the corresponding coding of correctly shaped faces. The advantage for shape-free faces was found to reeect and depend upon high-quality representation of the facial variation by means...

We present a method to characterize the noise in ground-based gravitational-wave observatories such as Laser Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO). This uses linear regression algorithms least absolute shrinkage and selection operator identify sources analyzes detector output vs witness sensors quantify coupling of noise. Our can be implemented with currently available resources at LIGO, which ...

We consider a grid network where nodes contain small buffers. A packet that faces a crowded buffer in its route will get extra latency and may be dropped. In this paper, we propose a novel flow control protocol called RFCC for grid networks. RFCC tries to reroute delayed packets and utilizes network coding to introduce a configurable amount of redundant information in the network, thereby incre...

To evaluate the incidence and clinical impact of WT1 gene mutations in younger adult patients with cytogenetically normal acute myeloid leukemia (CN-AML), sequencing of the complete coding region was performed in diagnostic samples from 617 patients who were treated on 3 German-Austrian AML Study Group protocols. WT1 mutations were identified in 78 (12.6%) of the 617 patients; mutations cluster...