The nervous system plays a profound regulatory role in maintaining appropriate immune responses by signaling to immune cells. These immune cells, including B- and T-cells, can further act as intermediary messengers, with subsets of B- and T-cells expressing choline acetyltransferase (ChAT), the enzyme required for acetylcholine (ACh) synthesis. Neural control of ACh release from ChAT+ T-cells c...

The problem in processing Chinese chat text originates from the anomalous characteristics and dynamic nature of such a text genre. That is, it uses ill-edited terms and anomalous writing styles in chat text, and the anomaly is created and discarded very quickly. To handle this problem, one solution is to re-train the recognizer periodically. This costs a lot of manpower in producing the timely ...

The paper describes the Egyptian Arabicto-English statistical machine translation (SMT) system that the QCRI-ColumbiaNYUAD (QCN) group submitted to the NIST OpenMT’2015 competition. The competition focused on informal dialectal Arabic, as used in SMS, chat, and speech. Thus, our efforts focused on processing and standardizing Arabic, e.g., using tools such as 3arrib and MADAMIRA. We further tra...

In this paper, we describe our system for the SemEval-2013 Task 2, Sentiment Analysis in Twitter. We formed features that take into account the context of the expression and take a supervised approach towards subjectivity and polarity classification. Experiments were performed on the features to find out whether they were more suited for subjectivity or polarity Classification. We tested our mo...

la morphologie, c’est l’étude des formes ou bien la mise en place des éléments constitutifs du conte. le travail de vladimir propp consiste à étudier non pas le contenu des contes folkloriques mais le contenant, c’est-à-dire la forme extérieure des contes et leur structure globale. ainsi, l’analyse de le petit poucet et de le chat botté fait appel à une logique fictionnelle propre au merveilleu...

Introduction: Maintenance of neurogenesis depends on the function of some histone-modifying enzymes; including Enhancer of zeste homolog 2 (EZH2) and histone acetyltransferases (P300). The mechanism of epigenetic regulation and gene expression underlying the transition of human umbilical cord blood mesenchymal stem cells (hUCB-MSCs) into MNs has not been fully clarified.  Methods: Two morphoge...

In order to collaborate effectively in group discourse on a topic like mathematical patterns, group participants must organize their activities so that they have a shared understanding of the significance of their utterances, inscriptions and behaviors—adequate for sustaining productive interaction. Some methodologies applied in CSCL research—such as the widespread coding-and-counting quantitat...

The muscle contraction during voluntary movement is regulated by activities of α- and γ-motoneurons (αMNs and γMNs, respectively). The tension of jaw-closing muscles can be finely tuned over a wide range. This excellent function is likely to be achieved by the specific populations of αMNs innervating jaw-closing muscles. Indeed, we have recently demonstrated that in the rat dorsolateral trigemi...

This study systematically examines the strength of the connection between synchronous CMC and pragmatic instruction by measuring the effects of three types of synchronous group discussion (written chat [WC], oral chat [OC], and traditional face-to-face [FF] discussion) on the acquisition of the speech act (refusals of an invitation) in the target language. Zhao (2003) notes that CMC research is...

Prior research has shown that intermediate-level adult learners of Russian who worked interactively with partners using text chat improved their vocabulary and oral production skills more than students who worked independently (Tare et al., 2014). Drawing on the dataset from Tare et al. (2014), the current study follows up to explore the nature of the students’ (N = 25) interactions during the ...