We present an overview of the second shared task on language identification in codeswitched data. For the shared task, we had code-switched data from two different language pairs: Modern Standard ArabicDialectal Arabic (MSA-DA) and SpanishEnglish (SPA-ENG). We had a total of nine participating teams, with all teams submitting a system for SPA-ENG and four submitting for MSA-DA. Through evaluati...

Microservice architectures (MSA) are becoming trending alternatives to existing software development paradigms notably for developing complex and distributed applications. Microservices emerged as an architectural design pattern aiming address the scalability ease maintenance of online services. However, security breaches have increased threatening availability, integrity confidentiality micros...

Multiple sequence alignment (MSA) is an important tool in biological analysis. However, it is difficult to solve this class of problems, due to their exponential complexity. This paper presents an algorithm combining the genetic algorithm and a self-organizing neural network for solution to MSA. This approach demonstrates improved performance in long DNA and RNA data sets exhibiting small simil...

Multiple sequence alignment (MSA) is an NP-complete and important problem in bioinformatics. In this paper, we have proposed iterative alignment method using a Genetic Algorithm for Multiple Sequence Alignment, named TSGA-MSA. The steps in this algorithm are discussed in details and its performances on a set of benchmark datasets from the BAliBase 2. 0 are analysed. The experimental results, th...

Accurate measurement of membrane protein stability--and particularly how it may vary as a result of disease-phenotypic mutations--ideally requires a denaturant that can unfold a membrane-embedded structure while leaving the solubilizing environment unaffected. The steric trap method fulfills this requirement by using monovalent streptavidin (mSA) molecules to unfold membrane proteins engineered...

p25α/tubulin polymerization promoting protein (TPPP) is an oligodendroglial protein that plays crucial roles including myelination, and the stabilization of microtubules. In multiple system atrophy (MSA), TPPP is suggested to relocate from the myelin sheath to the oligodendroglial cell body, before the formation of glial cytoplasmic inclusions (GCIs), the pathologic hallmark of MSA. However, mu...

PURPOSE The project is aimed to detect anti-mitotic spindle apparatus antibody (MSA) and anti-centromere antibody (ACA) and explore the clinical value for the diagnosis of small cell lung cancer (SCLC), providing clinical evidence for molecular studies of SCLC. METHODS 93 SCLC patients, 208 patients with other cancers and 50 healthy controls were enrolled in this study. MSA antibodies were de...

Design optimization of cable-stayed bridges is a challenging optimization problem because a large number of variables is usually involved in the optimization process. For these structures the design variables are cross-sectional areas of the cables. In this study, an efficient metaheuristic algorithm namely, momentum search algorithm (MSA) is used to optimize the design of cable-stayed bridges....