Researchers from academia and industry will present the latest developments in the application of interference RNA (RNAi) as a tool for gene silencing at “RNAi2008 Functions and Applications of Non-coding RNAs” to be held in March in Oxford, U.K. The meeting will focus on advances in the field and current opportunities and challenges in developing RNAi-based strategies for use in understanding ...

Many resource allocation problems can be studied within the framework of interference functions. Basic properties of interference functions are non-negativity, scale-invariance, and monotonicity. In this paper, we study interference functions with additional properties, namely convexity, concavity, and log-convexity. Such interference functions occur naturally in various contexts, e.g., adaptiv...

An analytical expression is derived for the decrease in the absorption cross section that occurs when two molecular electronic states are coupled by spin-orbit coupling. The loss of intensity, or interference dip, is common in the spectra of metal compounds. The derivation is based on a coupling of a single forbidden donor state to a broadened harmonic acceptor potential, and leads to simple an...

The performance of Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA) system degrades significantly in doubly dispersive channels. This is due to the fact that exponential sub-carriers do not match the singular functions of this type of channels. To solve this problem, we develop a system whose sub-carriers are chirp functions. This is equivalent to exploiting Fractional Fourier Transform (F...