Predicting student performance, one of the tasks in educational data mining, has been taken into account recently [Toscher and Jahrer 2010; Yu et al. 2010; Cetintas et al. 2010; Thai-Nghe et al. 2011]. It was selected as a challenge task for the KDD Cup 2010 [Koedinger et al. 2010]. Concretely, predicting student performance is the task where we would like to know how the students learn (e.g. g...

There are many reviews that discuss the role of biomarkers in cardiovascular disease (CVD) and heart failure (Braunwald, 2008; Chen et al., 2010; Hochholzer et al., 2010), but little information exists regarding the presence and usefulness of biomarkers for heart failure in myocarditis and dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) patients. Heart failure (HF) is the end consequence of many CVDs including at...

1. introduction glaciers and snow covers in the mountains play an important role in the water budget of many areas of the world (ramage and isacks, 2003). in high altitudes and mountainous regions, snowmelt is a great contributor to the yearly runoff. the snow melt supplies 1/6 of people's needed water but due to global warming these glaciers may be at risk (barnett, et al. 2005). for the regio...

Habitat loss is a leading driver of biodiversity loss (Millennium Ecosystem Assessment 2005). Over the past century, environmental noise from human activities has increased rapidly in intensity and scale, representing a drastic yet often overlooked form of habitat loss (Andrew et al. 2002, McDonald et al. 2006, Slabbekoorn & Ripmeester 2008, Hildebrand 2009, Barber et al. 2010). This noise is p...

Introduction MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are small (~22 nt) evolutionarily-conserved single stranded RNA species that function as potent negative regulators of gene expression (Ambros 2004; Bartel 2004; Lim et al. 2005). miRNAs repress gene expression via their ability to hybridize with the 3’ UTR of target mRNAs, and, in turn, trigger mRNA degradation and/or translational repression (reviewed in (Barte...

Living at high altitude is demanding and thus drives adaptational mechanisms. The Tibetan population has had a longer evolutionary period to adapt to high altitude than other mountain populations such as Andeans. As a result, some Tibetans living at high altitudes do not show markedly elevated red blood cell production as compared to South American high altitude natives such as Quechuas or Ayma...

Breast cancer is the leading cancer among women world-wide (International Agency for Research on Cancer, 2008). BC incidence has been increasing in both developed and developing countries (Bray et al., 2004) but over the past decade incidence has stabilised or decreased in many developed countries (Canfell et al., 2008; De Prithwish et al., 2010; Krieger et al., 2010; Daubisse-Marliac et al., 2...