Prenatal cystic fibrosis (CF) screening is currently based on Background: determining the carrier status of both parents. We propose a new method based only on the analysis of DNA in maternal plasma. The method relies on the quantitative amplification of the CF gene to Methods: determine the percentage of DNA fragments in maternal plasma at targeted CF mutation sites that carry a CF mutation. C...

The XSL Working Group has been studying how to extend the language tosupport streaming, that is, the ability to transform source documents intoresult documents without holding either in memory. This paper describes thecurrent state of the work, as represented in the first Working Draft of XSLT2.1.This paper discusses a W3C Working Draft which at the time of writinghas no...

This paper presents ReadWriter, a novel blogging interface that enables task automation and offers on-demand writing feedback. Bloggers can express any writing-related help requests in natural language inside double brackets. ReadWriter interprets a blogger’s requests and assigns them to a diverse group of contributors: software search agents, an anonymous crowd, the blogger’s social connection...

The major challenges that prevent the wide-scale adoption of Background. emerging personal clean energy production are unawareness and low self-confidence. We tested a hypothesis that a combination of a new technology and educational methods could lead to the increase in awareness of children to clean energy possibilities and to an increase in self-confidence in applying them. Here we report on...