The Drosophila Su(Hw) protein is a multi-zinc finger DNA binding factor required for the gypsy insulator function. At the gypsy element, Su(Hw) recruits partners Centrosomal Protein of 190 kD (CP190) and Modifier of mdg4 67.2 kD isoform (Mod67.2), which are required for the enhancer blocking and barrier functions of the insulator. Our genome-wide studies have identified thousands of endogenous ...

The suppressor of Hairy wing (su(Hw)) protein inhibits the function of transcriptional enhancers located distally from the promoter with respect to the location of su(Hw)-binding sites. This polarity is due to the ability of the su(Hw)-binding region to form a chromatin insulator. Mutations in modifier of mdg4 (mod(mdg4)) enhance the effect of su(Hw) by inhibiting the function of enhancers loca...

As the complexity of hardware (HW) and embedded system design is constantly increasing, the researchers are seeking to develop new more abstract and productive design methods or adapt the existing ones from other domains such as software design. This paper addresses the problem of using the object-oriented (OO) design techniques in HW domain. The main OO design techniques are as follows: abstra...

Characterizing age from handwriting (HW) has important applications, as it is key to distinguishing normal HW evolution with age from abnormal HW change, potentially triggered by neurodegenerative decline. We propose, in this work, an original approach for online HW style characterization based on a two-level clustering scheme. The first level generates writer-independent word clusters from raw...

HW/SW interface for an embedded system-on-chip is an important topic. It allows communications between tasks independently of their implementations. In our adaptive strategy, communications are not limited to data since local data (task context: recursive data, counters), configuration (pointers, configuration ID), and metrics are also exchanged. Thus, task communications are encapsulated withi...

we examined the effectiveness of intermittent warming (iw), hot water (hw), salicylic acid (sa), and calcium chloride (cacl2) on the postharvest life of pomegranate fruit cv. ‘shishe-kab’ and extending fruit shelf life during cold storage (3°c). fruit were subjected to cycles of 1 d at 17 ± 1°c every 6 d of storage at 3°c under iw conditions. pre-storage treatments were hw (50°c) for 3 min, sa ...

Traditionally, one of the main functions of the Operating System (OS) is to abstract the programming model from the low level details of the specific HW platform resources. However, in an FPGA-based SoC with HW accelerators, even with an OS layer, there is no unified HW/SW framework that provides: 1) transparency to the SW designer at the application level; and 2) an interface and OS support fo...