The coordination of the various processes involved in language production is a subject of keen debate in writing research. Some authors hold that writing processes can be flexibly coordinated according to task demands, whereas others claim that process coordination is entirely inflexible. For instance, orthographic planning has been shown to be resource-dependent during handwriting, but inflexi...

Transcription factors such as Scl/Tal1, Lmo2, and Runx1 are essential for the development of hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs). However, the precise mechanisms by which these factors interact to form transcriptional networks, as well as the identity of the genes downstream of these regulatory cascades, remain largely unknown. To this end, we generated an Scl / yolk sac cell line to identify candi...

This paper presents research results on new syllable structures for the Portuguese language. The location of the syllable boundaries is a well known problem of nonconsensual resolution in Portuguese, mainly when the acoustic-phonetic constraints are taken into account. Based on various acoustic-phonetic restrictions of Portuguese speech, new syllable splitting rules were studied in a corpus of ...

This paper reports on research that seeks to determine whether individual native Italian speakers consistently treat consonant clusters as heterosyllabic vs. tautosyllabic in experiments involving two phonological phenomena which have received syllable based-analyses: Raddoppiamento-Sintattico (RS) and definite article allomorphy. The convergence of both RS and article allomorphy on the same sy...

Information about bacterial subcellular localization (SCL) is important for protein function prediction and identification of suitable drug/vaccine/diagnostic targets. PSORTdb (http://db.psort.org/) is a web-accessible database of SCL for bacteria that contains both information determined through laboratory experimentation and computational predictions. The dataset of experimentally verified in...

A series of experiments was carried out to investigate the syllable affiliation of intervocalic consonants following short vowels, long vowels, and schwa in Dutch. Special interest was paid to words such as letter [symbol: see text] "id.," where a short vowel is followed by a single consonant. On phonological grounds one may predict that the first syllable should always be closed, but earlier p...

In our previous research, we demonstrated the validity of segmental unit input hidden Markov model (HMM), which regards successive four frame MEL-cepstrum coefficients as a feature vector. The vector is reduced to lower dimensions using the KL transform. However, the model considers only the correlation between frames in a short section, but not the correlation between the frames over a long se...