MOTIVATION Most biological processes remain only partially characterized with many components still to be identified. Given that a whole genome can usually not be tested in a functional assay, identifying the genes most likely to be of interest is of critical importance to avoid wasting resources. RESULTS Given a set of known functionally related genes and using a state-of-the-art approach to...

Die aktuellen Veränderungen in der Finanzindustrie lösen nicht nur in der Finanzbranche weitreichende Veränderungen aus. Es wird stärker als bisher die Aufgabe der Unternehmen sein, dass die richtigen Mittel zum richtigen Zeitpunkt effizient eingesetzt werden. Denn die hohen finanziellen Belastungen beim Scheitern von IT-Projekten und Software-Entwicklungsprojekten können Unternehmen bis an den...

Early use of corpora for language learning has included analysis of word usage via concordancing. In addition, some attempts have been made to use readability criteria for recommending reading to learners. In this paper we discuss various tools and approaches for enhanced language learning support, including different methods of filtering text based on vocabulary and grammatical criteria. We de...

Motivated by recent works on “Higgsless theories,” I discuss an SU(2)0 × SU(2) × U(1) gauge theory with arbitrary bifundamental (or custodial SU(2) preserving) symmetry breaking between the gauge subgroups and with ordinary matter transforming only under the U(1) and SU(2)0. When the couplings, gj, of the other SU(2)s are very large, this reproduces the standard model at the tree level. I calcu...

A recent comparative analysis of the sequenced genomes of 12 Drosophila species (Drosophila 12 Genomes Consortium, 2007; Stark et al., 2007) reveals a comprehensive picture of the evolution of small animal genomes and greatly improves computational predictions of functional elements in the D. melanogaster reference sequence.

This paper reports on an ongoing study, which determines whether digital storytelling is fun and entertaining. Since the digital storytelling has attracted research attention, children‟s experience with regards to fun and entertaining when interacting with it should be studied, because they are the generation to utilize the technology. Hence, this study is carried out. This paper starts with so...

We propose X-Fun, a core language for implementing various Xml standards in a uniform manner. X-Fun is a higher-order functional programming language for transforming data trees based on node selection queries. It can support the Xml data model and XPath queries as a special case. We present a lean operational semantics of X-Fun based on a typed lambda calculus that enables its in-memory implem...