MOTIVATION Chromosomal segments that share common ancestry, either through genomic duplication or species divergence, are said to be segmental homologs of one another. Their identification allows researchers to leverage knowledge of model organisms for use in other systems and is of value for studies of genome evolution. However, identification and statistical evaluation of segmental homologies...

Facial asymmetry is not an uncommon occurrence in day to day dental practice. It can be caused by various etiologic factors ranging from facial trauma to serious hereditary conditions. Here, we report a rare case of non-syndromic facial asymmetry in a young female, who was born with this condition but was not aware of the progression of asymmetry. No relevant family history was recognized. She ...

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Breast cancer is one of the most common cancer in the world. Early detection of cancers cause significantly reduce in morbidity rate and treatment costs. Mammography is a known effective diagnosis method of breast cancer. A way for mammography screening behavior identification is women's awareness evaluation for participating in mammography screening programs. Todays, intelligence systems could...

Q & A the major classes and many physical features are still under debate. To polarise arthropod trees, and define the likely morphological characters and developmental mechanisms of the arthropod ancestor, analysis of sister phyla in the Panarthropoda is required. Tardigrada are all very small, likely to have highly modified developmental processes, and have highly idiosyncratic morphology, an...

 Background: Segmental vitiligo is a small subset albeit persistent form of focal vitiligo with dermatomal distribution and resistant to medical therapy. In recent years, surgical therapy as hair follicle autograft transplantation has been a hot topic in management of segmental vitiligo. In this study, we evaluated the efficacy of this method in segmental vitiligo lesions. Methods: Th...

Duration modeling is to establish a mapping relationship between the prosodic context and the segmental duration engendered in natural speech. In this paper, we first study the effect of prosodic features on segmental duration of neutral utterance in Mandarin by introducing a statistical concept--eta squared, then choose more forceful prosodic features and design interaction quantifying algorit...

The purpose of this paper is to examine the viability of synthesizing Masan dialect with Seoul dialect and to examine the role of prosody in the authentication of the synthesized Masan dialect. The synthesis was performed by transferring one or more of the prosodic features of the Masan utterance unto the Seoul utterance. The hypothesis is that, given an utterance composed of the phonemes share...