Constructing composite sequences from overlapping mate-reads. In order to align overlapping mate reads and produce accurate composite fragments, we developed the SHERA pacakge, a set of perl modules and scripts. The algorithm was designed to be broadly applicable to mated reads, independent of the sequencing technology. The source code is freely available at http://almlab.mit.edu/ALM/Software/S...

These are reading notes of She eld's Conformal welding of random surfaces: SLE and the quantum gravity zipper [11]. In that paper, She eld constructs a stationary process (ht, ηt)t∈R whose marginal law is given by a Gaussian free eld and an independent SLE curve. This process evolves with a deterministic cutting and unzipping dynamics: the curve is progressively unzipped, and the eld varies acc...

سابقه و هدف: امروزه با گسترش فعالیت واحدهای صنعتی، غلظت آلاینده­ ها در هوا افزایش یافته انسان­ از طریق تنفس، بلعیدن جذب پوستی معرض آن­ها قرار می­ گیرند. میان تمام آلاینده ­ها، فلزات سنگین به دلیل ماهیت سمی خود بسیار مورد توجه متخصصان زیست ­محیطی گرفته ­اند. بالای محیط ­زیست، می ­تواند خطر اثرات نامطلوب بر سلامتی انسان را دهد. شهرک صنعتی ناجی زنجان ریخته ­گری مس آلیاژهای آن، ­عنوان یکی منابع انت...

Humor identification is a hard natural language understanding problem. We identify a subproblem — the “that’s what she said” problem — with two distinguishing characteristics: (1) use of nouns that are euphemisms for sexually explicit nouns and (2) structure common in the erotic domain. We address this problem in a classification approach that includes features that model those two characterist...

A recent study using a crossmodal matching task showed that the identity of a talker could be recognized even when the auditory and visual stimuli that were being matched were different sentences spoken by the talker. This finding implies that general temporal features of a person's speech are shared across the auditory and visual modalities.