Previous efforts to characterize conservation between the human and mouse genomes focused largely on sequence comparisons. These studies are inherently limited because they don't account for gene structure differences, which may exist despite genomic sequence conservation. Recent high-throughput transcriptome studies have revealed widespread and extensive overlaps between genes, and transcripts...

The sequence of echoes detected by an active Synthetic Aperture Sonar (SAS) is coherently added in an appropriate way to produce an image with greatly enhanced resolution in the azimuth, or along-track direction when compared with an image obtained from a standard Side Looking Sonar (SLS). The SAS processing originates from the Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) concept. A complete introduction to ...

SAS metadata is the data about SAS datasets, which is critical to the effective manipulation and analysis of SAS data. The SAS metadata exploration traditionally proceeds as ad-hoc programming on SAS Dictionary tables, which is inadequate, inefficient, and sometime complicated. Based on SAS ODBC functionality and hypertext techniques, a documentation generator called Datamapper is being develop...

SAS has a robust set of tools that provide business analysts many capabilities ranging from statistics and data mining to data integration and business intelligence. In the early years, prior to version 9, typical analysts would simply use the SAS programming language and write code to obtain the desired results. Support had two aspects: one from the systems administration team where the SAS so...

The SAS administrator exists in all types of organizations: small, medium, large, etc. This paper focuses on medium-to-large scale SAS ® System implementations. The SAS Administrator is not a position as much as it is a role. It can be a single individual or a team comprised of SAS-trained personnel, along with other IT staff within a company. While this role is very important, it is often not ...

Centrioles are microtubule-based organelles crucial for cell division, sensing and motility. In Caenorhabditis elegans, the onset of centriole formation requires notably the proteins SAS-5 and SAS-6, which have functional equivalents across eukaryotic evolution. Whereas the molecular architecture of SAS-6 and its role in initiating centriole formation are well understood, the mechanisms by whic...

The ability to modify its own structure and/or behavior at runtime is a native feature in the development of Self-adaptive Software (SaS). In previous work, a Reference Architecture for SaS (RA4SaS), an automated process for adaptation, and a framework for decision-making were developed to assist the development of SaS. Although such initiatives have collaborated with evolution of SaS, the desi...

A user-friendly program in SAS r is proposed to perform many nonparametric smoothing and testing procedures. The nonparametric part of the program consists of resources already available on SAS and the testing part will consist of lack-of-fit tests based on smoothing ideas that will be continuously updated. Four main procedures are described for the testing part of the program: tests of a linea...

This paper discusses the conversion and consolidation of several mainframe SAS applications to UNIX using a single Web-based front end. The Web interface enables end-users to generate raw data listings and statistical summary reports from their laboratory data with no assistance from colleagues trained in SAS or the native operating system, as previously had been required when the analysis appl...

Recent advances in classical planning have used the SAS+ formalism, and several effective heuristics have been developed based on the SAS+ formalism. Comparing to the traditional STRIPS/ADL formalism, SAS+ is capable of capturing vital information such as domain transition structures and causal dependencies. In this paper, we propose a new SAS+ based incomplete planning approach. Instead of usi...