This paper describes a collection of multimodal corpora of referring expressions, the REX corpora. The corpora have two notable features, namely (1) they include time-aligned extra-linguistic information such as participant actions and eye-gaze on top of linguistic information, (2) dialogues were collected with various configurations in terms of the puzzle type, hinting and language. After desc...

Introduction: This study developed and tested theory to gain a better understanding of the factors influencing positive health practices (PHP) among Asian American adolescents. Theoretical relationships postulated among (a) PHP and (b) self-esteem (SE), and (c) social support (SS) were tested. Objective: Based on the theoretical and empirical linkages found in the literature between SE and PHP,...

CONTEXT Pseudohypoparathyroidism type 1b (PHP-Ib) is characterized by renal resistance to PTH (and, sometimes, a mild resistance to TSH) and absence of any features of Albright's hereditary osteodystrophy. Patients with PHP-Ib suffer of defects in the methylation pattern of the complex GNAS locus. PHP-Ib can be either sporadic or inherited in an autosomal dominant pattern. Whereas familial PHP-...

The pulsating heat pipe (PHP) can be used to transfer massive reduce the thermal damage cutting tool when machining difficult-to-cut materials. To select a better open PHP, performance was experimentally investigated in this study. operating characteristics of different types working fluids under flux were analyzed compared with closed PHP. Visual experiments established verify experimental cha...

Galaxy is a popular framework for execution of complex analytical pipelines typically for large data sets, and is a commonly used for (but not limited to) genomic, genetic and related biological analysis. It provides a web front-end and integrates with high performance computing resources. Here we report the development of the blend4php library that wraps Galaxy's RESTful API into a PHP-based l...

Owing to the less limitation of Cloud Computing, different fields (such as telecommunications, tour and medical industry etc.) can combine their industrial specialty and professional skills with Internet to construct many small clouds in Cloud Computing. In addition, like many gear wheels in the machines, many small clouds support a large cloud that is composed of different services to provide ...

A web-based information system for management of scientific electronic journals is presented in the paper. Journal management requires exchange of information between many participants in the publishing process, including authors, reviewers, editors, and lectors. Each participant in the process plays a different role, and cooperates with other participants. The web system is implemented using o...

RAP RDF API for PHP is a Semantic Web toolkit for PHP developers. It offers features for parsing, manipulating, storing, querying, serving, and serializing RDF graphs. RAP was started as an open source project by the Freie Universität Berlin in 2002 and has been extended with code contributions from the Semantic Web community. Its latest release (V0.9.1) includes among others: a statement-centr...

Pseudohypoparathyroidism, type I (PHP-I) is an inherited disorder of primary resistance to multiple hormones that work by stimulating adenylate cyclase. In an attempt to clarify the mode of inheritance of PHP-I, we measured the activity of the N protein, a receptor-cyclase coupling component, in erythrocyte membranes. Erythrocyte N-protein activity was reduced by approximately 50% in erythrocyt...