MOTIVATION Expression Quantitative Trait Locus (eQTL) mapping tackles the problem of identifying variation in DNA sequence that have an effect on the transcriptional regulatory network. Major computational efforts are aimed at characterizing the joint effects of several eQTLs acting in concert to govern the expression of the same genes. Yet, progress toward a comprehensive prediction of such jo...

The paper proposes a novel solution to the problem of exceptional scope (ES) of (in)definites, e.g. the widest and intermediate scope readings of the sentence Every student of mine read every poem that a famous Romanian poet wrote before World War II. We propose that ES readings are available when the sentence is interpreted as anaphoric to quantificational domains and quantificational dependen...

This paper suggests a novel form of audiovisual performancelive writingthat transforms creative writing into a realtime performing art. The process of typing a poem on the fly is captured and augmented to create an audiovisual performance that establishes natural links among the components of typing gestures, the poem being written on the fly, and audiovisual artifacts. Live writing draws upon ...

Achalasia is a primary motility disorder with an annual incidence of 0.11 cases/ 100000 children [1]. In the field of natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery (NOTES), the peroral endoscopic myotomy (POEM) [2–3] is the only treatment to be performed routinely in humans. We report the case of a 3-year old female patient with Down syndrome who presented with severe growth retardation and w...

Nanophotonics, Nanoelectronics and Nanosensor (N3) is part of International Photonics and OptoElectronics Meetings (POEM), launched by Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics (WNLO). POEM is a large-scale multi-disciplinary international conference in the field of photonics and optoelectronics. It aims to focus on the key techniques of scientific frontier and industry in the field of opto...

Background and study aims Peroral endoscopic myotomy (POEM) is an excellent endoscopic treatment for achalasia. Clinical and manometric parameters are used for evaluation and follow-up. However, clinical success does not guarantee high quality of life (QoL) scores, generating doubts about their direct relationship. We aimed to evaluate QoL scores before and after POEM at medium and long term, t...