People with Williams syndrome (WMS) have a unique social phenotype characterised by unusually strong interest in other people and an engaging and empathic personality. Two experiments were designed to test whether this phenotype is associated with relatively spared abilities to decode mental-state information from nonverbal cues. The first experiment involved a modified version of the revised E...

Java technologies are widely used in web application development. In this paper are described three approaches to developing Java-based web applications and our experiences with applying each to the development of client that interact with servers implementing the OGC (Open GIS Consortium) Web Map Service (WMS) specification. Also described is the installation and configuration of open source s...

Comparisons between Wechsler Memory Scale-Revised (WMS-R) indexes and Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale-Revised (WAIS-R) IQ scores have been proposed to identify severity of memory deficits. However, many neurologic conditions reduce both intellectual and memory functioning, and thus, examining differences between these scores may be of little value. Closed head injured subjects who completed t...

Over the last two decades a large number of algorithms has been developed for regulatory motif finding. Here we show how many of these algorithms, especially those that model binding specificities of regulatory factors with position specific weight matrices (WMs), naturally arise within a general Bayesian probabilistic framework. We discuss how WMs are constructed from sets of regulatory sites,...

This paper presents a performance evaluation of Microsoft Windows Media Streaming (WMS) on an IEEE 802.11g home network. Empirical measurements are used to determine the viability of streaming High Definition (HD) and high quality video over a wireless residential network using currently available multimedia streaming software. User experience is evaluated using visual testbed observations and ...

Weill-Marchesani syndrome (WMS) is a genetic connective tissue disorder associated with fibrous tissue hyperplasia. Weill-Marchesani syndrome is characterized by short stature, broad head and other facial abnormalities such as hypoplastic maxilla and distinctive ocular abnormalities. Joint stiffness is one of the features of this syndrome. We report 5 cases with classical features of WMS who we...

Most existing algorithms employ a uniform minimum support for mining association rules. Nevertheless, each item in a publication database, even each set of items, is exhibited in an individual period. A reasonable minimum support threshold has to be adjusted according to the exhibition period of each k-itQmsQt Accordingly, this paper proposes a new algorithm, called WMS, for mining association ...

Spatial Information Search Engine (SISE), aiming to search the World Wide Web for online geographic information to meet the end users needs, is a totally new research area in the field of spatial information sharing. In this paper we introduce an OpenGIS WMS specification based SISE prototype system. This SISE prototype is capable of discovering available WMS Servers dynamically, choosing quali...

BACKGROUND Williams syndrome (WMS) is a rare, genetically based syndrome associated with a hemideletion in chromosome 7 (7q11.22-23) and characterized by a unique constellation of somatic, brain, and cognitive features. Individuals with WMS demonstrate an unusual and uneven neuropsychological profile showing cognitive and visual spatial deficits juxtaposed with relative language preservation an...