In this study we analyzed similarities and differences in the contingency experiences of 159 three-month-olds from 6 sociocultural contexts. Across contexts, caretakers responded with similar overall contingency levels, vocalizations provided the dominant response as well as the most salient signal, and there was a relative signal-response correspondence. With two exceptions, infants in all sam...

In various contexts, spatially proximal genes have been shown to be functionally related. However, the extent to which spatial proximity of genes in a pathway contributes to the pathway's context-specific activity is not known. Leveraging Hi-C data in six human cell-lines, we show that spatial proximity of genes in a pathway is highly correlated with the pathway's context-specific expression an...

Introduction: Unwanted exposure of ionizing radiation may result in carcinogenesis, cell mutations, and organ failure. High-atomic number elements such as lead, tungsten, bismuth have been traditionally used for radiation protection. Theoretical and practical studies have shown that a variety of shielding materials e.g. polymer composites (PCs) can be used for attenuation of th...

One of the major challenges in the prevailing web page development is device heterogeneity. Currently, devices such as cell phones, PDAs, and PCs are already capable of providing access to the Internet. In the near future, we are expecting other devices such as car navigation systems to have the same capabilities. As the number of these devices increases, the traditional approach of developing ...

In this study, we discuss the magnetic moment of Pcs(4338) and Pcs(4459) hidden-charmed pentaquarks, which are closely related to their substructures. The moments these states calculated with help QCD light-cone sum rules method quantum numbers I(JP)=0(1/2?) I(JP)=0(3/2?) for Pcs(4459), respectively. Our predictions ?Pcs=0.34±0.12?N state, ?Pcs=?1.67±0.58?N state. As a by-product, isospin?1 par...

In multiple sclerosis Oligodendrocytes are obliterated by the immune system. neural stem/ progenitor cells (NS/P Cs) have the capacity to differentiate into mature myelinating oligodendrocytes. In embryonic mouse cortex oligodendrocyte progenitor cells (OPCs) are more abundant than the ganglionic eminence. Doing gene set enrichment analysis using DAVID and Panther websites it was shown that Gpr...

Abstract We consider the minimization of a sum Pm i=1 fi(x) consisting of a large number of convex component functions fi. For this problem, incremental methods consisting of gradient or subgradient iterations applied to single components have proved very effective. We propose new incremental methods, consisting of proximal iterations applied to single components, as well as combinations of gra...