Genome editing tools have the potential to change the genomic architecture of a genome at precise locations, with desired accuracy. These tools have been efficiently used for trait discovery and for the generation of plants with high crop yields and resistance to biotic and abiotic stresses. Due to complex genomic architecture, it is challenging to edit all of the genes/genomes using a particul...

Multiple Sequence alignments are a critical step in phylogeny inference. There is a lack of an appropriate approach which is capable of 1) finding the best global alignment and 2) automating and reproducing manual editing. Progressive alignment is an effective method for multiple Sequence alignments. However, its application in practice has also long been largely hampered because the alignment ...

Aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases play a central role in maintaining accuracy during the translation of the genetic code. To achieve this challenging task they have to discriminate against amino acids that are very closely related not only in structure but also in chemical nature. A 'double-sieve' editing model was proposed in the late seventies to explain how two closely related amino acids may be di...

this article reports on the findings of a study that investigated the impact of manipulating task performance conditions on listening task performance by learners of english as a foreign language (efl). the study was designed to explore the effects of changing complexity dimensions on listening task performance and to achieve two aims: to see how listening comprehension task performance was aff...

Abstract This study explores the interaction effect between source text (ST) complexity and machine translation (MT) quality on task difficulty of neural (NMT) post-editing from English to Chinese. When investigating human effort exerted in post-editing, existing studies have seldom taken both ST MT levels into account, mainly focused systems used before emergence NMT. Drawing process product d...

Our research was focused on a false-memory editing operation that is posited in fuzzy-trace theory-recollection rejection. The main objectives were (a) to extend model-based measurement of this operation to a narrative task that ought to ensure high levels of recollection rejection and (b) to study five manipulations that ought to influence recollection rejection by affecting the accessibility ...

The purpose of the present study is to develop appropriate scoring scales for each of the defined stages of the writing process, and also to determine to what extent these scoring scales can reliably and validly assess the performances of EFL learners in an academic writing task. Two hundred and two students’ writing samples were collected after a step-by-step process oriented essay writing ins...

a number of pedagogical arguments support self- and peer-assessment in language classrooms to improve the quality of learning by students’ involvement in the final judgments of one’s work. considering editing as a method of communicative testing of writing, this study aimed at finding out whether self- and peer-editing of assignments could result in the improvement in iranian efl students’ writ...

There has been increasing interest in the machine learning community in automatic task design. In a collaborative problem-solving setting, how can we best break up and assign tasks so as to optimize output? Huang et al., for example, considered the problem of effectively assigning image-labeling tasks to Amazon Mechanical Turkers [1]. In the realm of Wikipedia prediction, Cosley et al. created ...