Mandarin-English Information (MEI) is one of the four projects selected for the Johns Hopkins University Summer Workshop 2000. We plan to develop technologies for using written queries to search spoken documents (cross-media) between English and Mandarin Chinese (cross-language). Our research focus is on the integration of speech recognition and machine translation technologies in the context o...

methyl tetra - 0-methyl- ?-d- glucopyranoside is stereoselectively prepared from tetramethyl-d- glucopyranose by using (mei+nah) in toluene (86%) or cyclohexane (85%), while its ?- isomer is best synthesized in hexamethyl phosphoramide (64%). similarly, methyl tetra-o-methyl-?- d-mannopyranoside is synthesized in cyclohexane (80%), while its ?- isomer is predominantly prepared by (mei+n-buli) i...

ATM/ATR kinases act as signal transducers in eukaryotic DNA damage and replication checkpoints. Mutations in ATM/ATR homologs have pleiotropic effects that range from sterility to increased killing by genotoxins in humans, mice, and Drosophila. Here we report the generation of a null allele of mei-41, Drosophila ATM/ATR homolog, and the use of it to document a semidominant effect on a larval mi...

Methyl iodide (MeI) is increasingly being used as a highly effective alternative to the soil fumigant methyl bromide. Due to its volatile and toxic nature, MeI draws wide attention on its potential atmospheric emission following field fumigation treatment. Using soil columns that make it possible to determine emissions and gas phase distribution of soil fumigants, we studied MeI behavior in two...

The aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of multidimensional ergonomic intervention (MEI) model to reduce musculoskeletal discomfort (MSD) among street sweepers. A quasi-experimental study was conducted in Chiang Rai Province. The MEI model was designed on the basis of four core components: cognitive behavior therapy, ergonomic education training, stretching exercise, and the foa...

Drosophila mei-9 is essential for several DNA repair and recombination pathways, including nucleotide excision repair (NER), interstrand crosslink repair, and meiotic recombination. To better understand the role of MEI-9 in these processes, we characterized 10 unique mutant alleles of mei-9. These include a P-element insertion that disrupts repair functions but not the meiotic function; three n...

The Hyperinstruments research group at the MIT Media Lab in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. developed a number of technology-based instruments and a piece of graphical software for composition for children in the 8-12 year age range. The ‘Toy Symphony’ project gave children in various cities in Europe and the USA access to these technologies during a series of workshops and culminated in a publi...

©AsiaPacific MediaEducator Issue No.11 July Dec. 2001 T Court of Final Appeal of Hong Kong (CFA), the highest court established in Hong Kong after the 1997 handover, has made two landmark but controversial decisions on freedom of expression. The decision in Cheng Albert and Another v Tse Wai Chun Paul (Cheng v Tse) has made it much more difficult for a plaintiff to succeed in a defamation actio...

BACKGROUND Major extracranial injury (MEI) is common in traumatic brain injury (TBI) patients, but the effect on outcome is controversial. OBJECTIVE To assess the prognostic value of MEI on mortality after TBI in an individual patient data meta-analysis of 3 observational TBI studies (International Mission on Prognosis and Clinical Trial Design in TBI [IMPACT]), a randomized controlled trial ...