We characterize pairs of convex sets A, Bin the k-dimensional space with the property that every probability distribution (p 1 ,. • • , P~<) has a repsesentation p, =a;· b;, a EA, bE B. Minimal pairs with this property are antiblocking pairs of convex corners. This result is closely related to a new entropy concept. The main application is an information theoretic characterization of perfect gr...

potato virus y (pvy) is one of the most important pathogenic agents that reduce the yield and quality of tobacco (nicotiana tabacum l.). dna-based molecular markers are valuable tools for identifying germplasm in gene banks, assessing kinship ties, and doing marker-assisted selection (mas) for resistance to pests, diseases, and some crop traits of interest. this work presents the results of ass...

Probabilities of all possible correspondences of residues in aligning two proteins are evaluated by assuming that the statistical weight of each alignment is proportional to the exponent of its total similarity score. Based on such probabilities, a probability alignment that includes the most probable correspondences is proposed. In the case of highly similar sequence pairs, the probability ali...

Parallel corpora are essential resources for the construction of bilingual term dictionary of historical classics. To obtain large-scale parallel corpora, this paper proposes a sentence alignment method based on mode prediction and term translation pairs. On one hand, the method rebuilds the sentence alignment process according to characteristics of the translation of historical classics, and a...

Overlapping recombinant clones that encompass the insulin-like growth factor (IGF) I and II genes have been isolated from a human genomic DNA library. Each gene is present once per haploid genome; the IGF-I gene spans greater than 35 kilobase pairs (kbp) and the IGF-II gene is at least 15 kbp. The exon-intron organization of these genes is similar, each having four exons, which is one more than...

one of the generalizations of the wiener number to weighted graphs is to assign probabilities to edges, meaning that in nonstatic conditions the edge is present only with some probability. the reliability wiener number is defined as the sum of reliabilities among pairs of vertices, where the reliability of a pair is the reliability of the most reliable path. closed expressions are derived for t...

We discuss a new algorithmic type of problem in random graphs studying the minimum number of queries one has to ask about adjacency between pairs of vertices of a random graph G ∼ G(n, p) in order to find a subgraph which possesses some target property with high probability. In this paper we focus on finding long paths in G ∼ G(n, p) when p = 1+ε n for some fixed constant ε > 0. This random gra...

The neocortical circuit is composed of excitatory principal neurons and inhibitory interneurons. Recent advances have established that multiple subnetworks of synaptically coupled excitatory neurons provide distinct pathways for information flow through the cortical circuit. Here we have investigated how inhibitory interneurons are incorporated into these excitatory subnetworks in the rat front...

Binary outcome data are common in research and evaluation. They are often analyzed using logistic regression, and results of these analyses are often reported in the form of odds ratios (ORs). However, ORs are not directly interpretable in the metric commonly used in policy-relevant discussions, which concerns probabilities. ORs are unfamiliar to nonresearchers, and their relationship to probab...

With the accumulation of protein and its related data on the Internet, many domain-based computational techniques to predict protein interactions have been developed. However, most techniques still have many limitations when used in real fields. They usually suffer from low accuracy in prediction and do not provide any interaction possibility ranking method for multiple protein pairs. In this p...