Serial analysis of gene expression (SAGE) experiments could provide us the expression level of thousands of genes in a biological sample. However, the number of available samples is relatively small. Such undersampled problem needs to be carefully analyzed from a machine learning perspective. In this paper, we combine several state-of-theart techniques for classification, feature selection, and...

Software systems typically contain large APIs that are informally specified and hence easily misused. This paper presents the Sage programming language, which is designed to enforce precise interface specifications in a flexible manner. The Sage type system uses a synthesis of the type Dynamic, first-class types, and arbitrary refinement types. Since type checking for this expressive language i...

Soil moisture is a key limiting resource in arid and semi-arid environments for woody shrub species. We assessed if three arid communities differed in their level of dry season soil moisture content and if the dominant species in these communities differed in their ability to use soil moisture. Water potential of all of the dominant woody plant species occurring in chaparral, coastal sage, and ...

Rainfall simulation experiments were conducted on annual grassland and coastal sage scrub hillslopes to determine the quantities of C and N removed by surface runoff in sediment and solution. Undisturbed coastal sage scrub soils have very high infiltration capacities (> 140 mm h(-1)), preventing the generation of surface runoff. Trampling disturbance to the sage scrub plots dramatically reduced...

Plant cover and vegetation structure were examined at two inland coastal sage scrub sites differing in fire history and use by California gnatcatchers. Salvia mellifera and Eriogonum fasciculatum dominated one site; shrub cover on gnatcatcher– occupied plots averaged 50 percent greater than on unoccupied plots. At the other site, gnatcatcher-occupied plots had high cover of Artemisia californic...

Analysis of several million expressed gene signatures (tags) revealed an increasing number of different sequences, largely exceeding that of annotated genes in mammalian genomes. Serial Analysis of Gene Expression (SAGE) can reveal new RNAs transcribed from previously unrecognized genomic regions. However, conventional SAGE tags are too short to identify unambiguously unique sites in large geno...

We are making researches into seamless integration of information distributed over networks under the SAGE (Smart AGent Environment) project. In the SAGE, conversational agents speak in ACL (Agent Communication Language) and cooperate in solving problems focused on retrieval and integration of heterogeneous information. The SAGE consists of user agents which agentify users, database agents whic...

Sagebrush (Artemisia spp.) obligate wildlife species such as the imperiled greater sage-grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) face numerous threats including altered ecosystem processes that have led to conifer expansion into shrub-steppe. Conifer removal is accelerating despite a lack of empirical evidence on grouse population response. Using a before-after-control-impact design at the landscape ...

PURPOSE Although extraocular muscle (EOM) is skeletal muscle, aspects of its biology are unlike other striated muscle. In this study, the broad molecular genetics profile underlying the novel EOM phenotype was examined. METHODS Serial analysis of gene expression (SAGE) was used to quantify adult rat EOM gene transcripts. SAGE isolates and sequences 10-bp tags from defined locations in mRNA-de...