Since the human genome sequences became available in 2001, our knowledge about the human transposable elements which comprise ∼40% of the total nucleotides has been expanding. Non-long terminal repeat (non-LTR) retrotransposons are actively transposing in the present-day human genome, and have been found to cause ∼100 identified clinical cases of varied disorders. In contrast, almost all of the...

Nonwords created by transposing two letters (e.g., RELOVUTION) are very effective at activating the lexical representation of their base words (Perea & Lupker, 2004). In the present study, we examined whether the nature of transposed-letter (TL) similarity effects was purely orthographic or whether it could also have a phonological component. Specifically, we examined transposed-letter similari...

One key issue for any computational model of visual word recognition is the choice of an input coding scheme for assigning letter position. Recent research has shown that transposed-letter similarity effects occur even when the transposed letters are not adjacent (caniso-casino; Perea & Lupker, 2004, JML). In the present study we conducted two single-presentation lexical decision experiments to...

The bacteriophage Mu strong gyrase site (SGS) is required for efficient replicative transposition and functions by promoting the synapsis of prophage termini. To look for other sites which could substitute for the SGS in promoting Mu replication, we have replaced the SGS in the middle of the Mu genome with fragments of DNA from various sources. A central fragment from the transposing virus D108...

Performance measurement is the basis of management with regard to controlling activities of an enterprise. Development of appropriate indicators and measurement techniques lead to many problems. Th e majority of enterprises begin to evaluate the effi ciency, by the implementation of fi nancial indicators that are practically incalculable. Only at a later stage, are measures used that are relate...

Medical language, as many technical languages, is rich with morphologically complex words, many of which take their roots in Greek and Latin-in which case they are called neoclassical compounds. Morphosemantic analysis can help generate definitions of such words. This paper reports work on the adaptation of a morphosemantic analyzer dedicated to French (DériF) to analyze English medical neoclas...

Abstract. France and Germany not only have very prominent private law codifications, but are also those countries which taken the EC Sales Directive 1999 (among other EU developments) as an invitation to engage in overall reform of their old Codes at wake 21st Century. This invites a comparison, namely because one occurred when transposing directive, within two years, after almost 1 ½ decades c...

A partial component is a process which fails or dies at some stage, thus exhibiting a finite, more ephemeral behaviour than expected (e.g. operating system crash). Partiality — which is the rule rather than exception in formal modelling — can be treated mathematically via totalization techniques. In the case of partial functions, totalization involves error values and exceptions. In the context...