In a morphological ontology the expert's knowledge is represented in terms, which describe morphological structures and how these structures relate to each other. With the assistance of ontologies this expert knowledge is made processable by machines, through a formal and standardized representation of terms and their relations to each other. The red flour beetle Tribolium castaneum, a represen...

Electron microscopy uses high-energy elec tron beams to probe the structure and chem istry of both inorganic and biological materi als. The short wavelength (A) of electrons permits higher resolution images than light microscopes. This was a major motive in the early development of the transmission elec tron microscope (TEM) by Knoll and Ruska (1932) in Berlin, and atomic resolution is now rout...

SUMMARY We have developed a laboratory information management system (LIMS) for a next-generation sequencing (NGS) laboratory within the existing Galaxy platform. The system provides lab technicians standard and customizable sample information forms, barcoded submission forms, tracking of input sample quality, multiplex-capable automatic flow cell design and automatically generated sample sheet...

New experimental data on inclusive spectra of identified particles produced in pp collisions at the RHIC are used to test z-scaling. Energy and multiplicity independence of the scaling function is established. The RHIC data confirm z-scaling observed at U70, ISR, SpS and Teva-tron energies. The obtained results are of interest to search for new physics phenomena of particle production in high t...

A method for the isolation of lymphocyte plasma mem branes from patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia is described. Lymphocytes were disrupted in a hypotonie bicarbonate medium using a Dounce homogenizer. The plasma membranes fraction was finally collected from a continuous sucrose gradient at density 1.115 (g/ml). Elec tron micrographs of this material showed membranes and small dense ves...

In this work, we are building agents for the light cycle game inspired by a scene from the movie Tron. In our version of the game, 2 agents (blue and orange) move on a 2D grid. Each of them can move in 4 directions (up, down, left, right). After each move, the previous cell turns into a wall. The game ends when one of the agents moves to a wall cell or if they move to the same cell, in which ca...

We have designed and tested a new relativistic Lagrangian hydrodynamics code, which treats gravity in the conformally flat approximation to general relativity. We have tested the resulting code extensively, finding that it performs well for calculations of equilibrium single-star models, collapsing relativistic dust clouds, and quasi-circular orbits of equilibrium solutions. By adding in a radi...

A connectionist model for categorization (self-organization) even in the presence of multiple or mixed patterns has been presented. During self-organization, the network automatically adjusts the number of nodes in the hidden and output layers, depending on the complexity or nature of overlap between the patterns. An ambiguity measure is given based on how well the features are being interprete...

In this paper we propose the use of vision grids as state representation to learn to play the game Tron using neural networks and reinforcement learning. This approach speeds up learning by significantly reducing the number of unique states. Furthermore, we introduce a novel opponent modelling technique, which is used to predict the opponent’s next move. The learned model of the opponent is sub...