Conslnspector (Freeh et al, 1993) is a program to scan nucleic acid sequences for matches to a pre-compiled library of transcription factor binding sites. The program carries out an extensive examination of binding site candidates; the real sequence is compared with randomly shuffled versions and sequence regions surrounding the conserved binding site are included in the analysis (default 40 bp...

This paper proposes a method for a subpixel accuracy detection of edges, ridges, and other curvilinear visual patterns, based on identification of their “extended color profiles”. These profiles accurately capture the image color in an orthogonal direction to the curve, in a range of a few pixels. It is well known that various types of “curvilinear visual patterns”, and not only edges and ridge...

BACKGROUND Ten years after the nationwide dissemination of two evidence-based treatment programs, the status of the implementation components was evaluated in a cross-sectional study. The aim of the study was to pilot a standardized measure of implementation components by examining the factor structure, the reliabilities of the scores, and their association with implementation outcome variables...

This is a methodological study that suggests a taxometric technique for objective classification of yeasts. It makes use of the minres method of factor analysis and groups strains of yeast according to their factor profiles. The similarities are judged in the higher-dimensional space determined by the factor analysis, but otherwise rely on the simple concept of "most like" or "neighbor." The pr...

We introduce a simple method for determining pulsation velocities of Cepheid variables; namely, the matching of observed spectral line profiles in both shape and absolute position with model profiles. This approach avoids the ambiguous meaning of radial velocity for asymmetric lines, and it avoids the awkward projection factor (the “p” factor) used to expand radial velocities to pulsation veloc...

To study the global dynamics of phosphotyrosine-based signaling events in early growth factor stimulation, we developed a mass spectrometric method that converts temporal changes to differences in peptide isotopic abundance. The proteomes of three cell populations were metabolically encoded with different stable isotopic forms of arginine. Each population was stimulated by epidermal growth fact...

Objectives: Recent studies show that an MspI polymorphism in the 39-noncoding region of the CYP1A1 gene is associated with breast cancer in African-American women but not in Caucasian women. In addition, an African-American-specific (AAS) polymorphism is located in intron 7 of this gene. We hypothesized that the AAS polymorphism may partially account for this race-specific association and that ...

This study sought to compare the metacognitive knowledge profile of weak and strong students in problem solving. For achieving this purpose, one hundred students of the second educational District of Tehran were chosen by cluster sampling. They responded individually to the questions of "the Metacognitive Questionnaire Interview" and in the next step their performance in the pendulum problem so...