A central scientific problem in phonology is how children rapidly and accurately acquire the intricate structures and patterns seen in the phonology of their native language. The solution to this problem lies in part in the discovery of the right formal theory of phonology, but another crucial element is the development of theories of learning, often in the form of machineimplemented models tha...

Theresa V. Strong,* Lisa S . Smit, Samya Nasr, Deborah L. Wood, Jeffrey L. Cole, Michael C. Iannuzzi, Robert C. Stern, and Francis S. Collins Departments of Human Genetics (T.V.S., L.S.S., D.L. W., F.S.C.) , Pediatrics (S.N.), lnternal Medicine (F.S.C.), and The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (J.L.C., F.S.C.), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-0650; The Henry Ford Hospital, Det...

JINGSONG ZHAO,1 PATRICIA J. SIME,2 PABLO BRINGAS, JR.,1 JACK GAULDIE,2 AND DAVID WARBURTON1 1Center for Craniofacial Molecular Biology, Departments of Surgery and Pediatrics, and Cell and Developmental Biology Program, Childrens Hospital Los Angeles Research Institute, University of Southern California Schools of Dentistry and Medicine, Los Angeles, California 90033; and 2Molecular Virology and...

N. Dori, H. Behar, H. Brot, and Y. Louzoun 4, ∗ Gonda Brain Research Center, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel Department of Biology, Stanford University Stanford, CA 94305-5020 Boston Childrens Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 3 Blackfan Circle, Boston, MA Center for Polymer Studies and Physics Department, Boston University, Boston, MA, 02215, USA Department of Mathematics, Bar-Ilan Univ...

Submitters: George L. Catignani, Department of Food Science, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27650 John G. Bieri, Nutritional Biochemistry Section, Laboratory of Nutrition and Endocrinology, National Institute of Arthritis, Metabolism, and Digestive Diseases, Bethesda, MD 20014 Evaluators: William J. Driskell and Mark M. Bashor, NutriLional Biochemistry Branch, Clinical Chemistry D...