“Orient yourself properly.” Introduction to Scenes & Sounds

A practical guide to orient yourself in the labyrinth of genome databases.

The identification of genes involved in human inherited disorders has been revolutionized by the resources produced by the Human Genome Project. In particular, the generation of >1 000 000 human expressed sequence tags (ESTs) has led to the partial identification of a significant percentage of all human genes. In the next 7 years, we will witness another revolution when sequencing of the human ...

How to Avoid Yourself

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How Best to Orient Travelers

Primary Objective: Compare the effects of written landmark, cardinal, and left/right street directions on navigational success at the beginning of a walking route. Research Design: Matched control group comparison design Methods & Procedures: We compared navigational performance of 18 adults with acquired brain injury (ABI) to controls matched for gender, age, and education. Participants follow...

An Introduction to Sociolinguistics

Introduction to circular data

In many diverse scientific fields, the measurements are directions. For instance, a biologist may be measuring the direction of flight of a bird or the orientation of an animal. A series of such observations is called ”directional data”. Since a direction has no magnitude, these can be conveniently represented as points on the circumference of a unit circle centered at the origin or as unit ...