The human genome is scattered with repetitive sequences, and the ENCODE project revealed that 60-70% of the genomic DNA is transcribed into RNA. As a consequence, the human transcriptome contains a large portion of repeat-derived RNAs (repRNAs). Here, we present a hypothesis for the evolution of novel functional repeat-derived RNAs from non-coding RNAs (ncRNAs) by retrotransposition. Upon ampli...

Our research program is de facto divided into two thrusts. In the molecular biology work, we have utilized published sequences of spidroin 1 and 2 genes to construct oligonucleotides which have been linked together to build repetitive gene units for protein expression studies. The structure of the protein we are using as a model is, of course, that of spider silk, in particular, the silk used f...

Line-of-Balance (LOB) is a useful analytical tool for repetitive activities in construction projects, which allows showing which crew is assigned to what repetitive work unit of an activity. LOB is closely related to the linear scheduling method, but possesses some challenges: It must be clarified how it counts, as previous studies displayed an apparent measurement gap at the origin, implicitly...

introduction: repetitive cortical spreading depression (csd) can lead to cell death in immature brain tissue. caspases are involved in neuronal cell death in several csd-related neurological disorders. yet, whether repetitive csd itself can induce caspase activation in adult or juvenile tissue remains unknown. inducing repetitive csd in somatosensory cortices of juvenile and adult rats in vivo,...

UNLABELLED Smith PS, Dinse HR, Kalisch T, Johnson M, Walker-Batson D. Effects of repetitive electrical stimulation to treat sensory loss in persons poststroke. OBJECTIVE To explore the effectiveness of repetitive electrical stimulation referred to here as tactile coactivation and to improve sensory discrimination and function in the most involved hand of a person recovering from stroke. DES...

The recognition of human movements such as walk ing running or climbing has been approached previ ously by tracking a number of feature points and either classifying the trajectories directly or matching them with a high level model of the movement A major di culty with these methods is acquiring and tracking the requisite feature points which are generally speci c joints such as knees or ankle...