2020 European Society of Human Genetics, June 6–June 9th: Live in your living room!

European Society of Human Genetics (ESHG) Conference, June 6–9, 2015, Glasgow, UK

Patients with adenomatous polyposis have higher risk for colorectal cancer; however causative genes remain unknown in a considerable fraction of these patients. On behalf of his collaborators, Robbert Weren (Nijmegen, Netherlands) presented whole-exome sequencing data from 51 individuals (of 48 families) with adenomatous polyposis. They identified a homozygous germline nonsense mutation in the ...

19th Meeting of the Irish Society of Human Genetics, Friday 9th September 2016

The Ulster Medical Society grants to all users on the basis of a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International Licence the right to alter or build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creation is licensed under identical terms. Behcet's disease (BD) is a complex, multifactorial rare disease, which is poorly understood. Genetic a...

What your body and your living room tell my agent

This paper proposes a class of software agent architectures capable of playing some of beneficial roles embodiment accomplishes in living beings. These are component based architectures including sensors, actuators, emotion eliciting mechanisms and action control mechanisms. These architectures through their yellow pages and log services, which maintain updated information about the agent body ...

9th Meeting of the Irish Society of Human Genetics, Thursday 7th September 2006

analysis of power in the network society

اندیشمندان و صاحب نظران علوم اجتماعی بر این باورند که مرحله تازه ای در تاریخ جوامع بشری اغاز شده است. ویژگیهای این جامعه نو را می توان پدیده هایی از جمله اقتصاد اطلاعاتی جهانی ، هندسه متغیر شبکه ای، فرهنگ مجاز واقعی ، توسعه حیرت انگیز فناوری های دیجیتال، خدمات پیوسته و نیز فشردگی زمان و مکان برشمرد. از سوی دیگر قدرت به عنوان موضوع اصلی علم سیاست جایگاه مهمی در روابط انسانی دارد، قدرت و بازتولید...