A significant limitation to the analytical accuracy and precision of dual-labeled spotted cDNA microarrays is the signal error due to dye bias. Transcript-dependent dye bias may be due to gene-specific differences of incorporation of two distinctly different chemical dyes and the resultant differential hybridization efficiencies of these two chemically different targets for the same probe. Seve...

Three lexical decision experiments tested the claim by M. Taft (Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior 1979, 18, 21-39) that lexical access is based on a word's Basic Orthographic Syllabic Structure (BOSS). Experiment 1 failed to replicate Taft's finding that lexical decisions were faster to monomorphemic words split at their BOSS boundary than those split at their Vocalic Center Group ...

Andrén and colleagues (2008) recently published a paper reminding us of good scientific practice, taught and learnt during our early years of research, but frequently forgotten. This article has a similar objective. It is highly likely that the majority of microbial ecologists have taken a basic course in statistics. Unfortunately, the basic principles of statistical analysis and its significan...

Karl Oskar Illmensee studied the cloning [2] and reproduction of fruit flies, mice, and humans [3] in the US and Europe during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Illmensee used nuclear transfer techniques (cloning [2]) to create early mouse [4] embryos from adult mouse [4] cells, a technique biologists used in later decades to help explain how embryonic cells function during development....

Due to the overabundance of textual information on-line, automatic text summarization [Saggion and Poibeau, 2013], the reduction of a text to its essential content, is fundamental for information systems dealing with textual content. In recent years text summarization research has intensified with well known evaluation programmes promoting the interest in the area. Comparison of different summa...

We present a method for constructing replicated services that retain their availability and integrity despite several servers and clients being corrupted by an intruder, in addition to others failing benignly. We also address the Issue of maintaining a causal order among client requests. We illustrate a security breach resulting from an intruder’s ability to effect a violation of causahty in th...