Differentiation of causative prepositions with ‘basis’ connotation

The molecular detection of the causative agent of plague on the basis of the pla gene

Yersinia pestis, a gram-negative rod belonging to the Enterobacteriaceae family, is the causative agent of plague. Classical methods of detecting the organisms are time-consuming, expensive and dangerous. The aim of the study was to design a Real-time PCR assay on the basis of the pla gene of Yersinia pestis. In this research the Real- time PCR test was optimized by using special primers for ta...

Connotation Analysis

Language ambiguity as produced by humans, is often unnoticed and as such, is most of the times involuntary. In an original context, a sentence might be very clear with respect to the producer's intentions, but if it contains some unnoticed ambiguities (obliterated by the context), when put in another context, might convey a very different meaning, sometimes funny, sometimes embarrassing.

The Connotation of Musical Consonance

Validated Bayesian Differentiation of Causative and Passenger Mutations

In many contexts, the problem arises of determining which of many candidate mutations is the most likely to be causative for some phenotype. It is desirable to have a way to evaluate this probability that relies as little as possible on previous knowledge, to avoid bias against discovering new genes or functions. We have isolated mutants with blocked cell cycle progression in Chlamydomonas and ...

Connotation in Translation

We present a pilot study analyzing the connotative language found in a bilingual corpus of French and English headlines. We find that (1) manual annotation of connotation at the word-level is more reliable than using segment-level judgments, (2) connotation polarity is often, but not always, preserved in reference translations produced by humans, (3) machine translated text does not preserve th...