Advances in clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR) technology have allowed targeted recombination in specific DNA sequences in yeast (). My objective was to determine if the selection gains from targeted recombination are large enough to warrant the development of targeted recombination technology in plants. Genomewide marker effects for quantitative traits in two ma...

By recording the feedback-related negativity (FRN) in response to gains and losses, we investigated the contribution of outcome monitoring mechanisms to age-associated differences in probabilistic reinforcement learning. Specifically, we assessed the difference of the monitoring reactions to gains and losses to investigate the monitoring of outcomes according to task-specific goals across the l...

We present new evidence on the evolution of black-white earnings differences among all men, including both workers and nonworkers. We study two measures: (i) the level earnings gap the racial earnings difference at a given quantile; and (ii) the earnings rank gap the difference between a black man’s percentile in the black earnings distribution and the position he would hold in the white earnin...

We describe a novel hierarchical duration model for speech recognition. The modelling scheme is based on the angie framework, a exible uni ed sublexical representation for speech applications. Our duration model captures contextual factors that in uence duration of sublexical units at multiple linguistic levels simultaneously, using both relative and absolute duration information. The modelling...