We present a method for generating Colloquial Egyptian Arabic (CEA) from morphologically disambiguated Modern Standard Arabic (MSA). When used in POS tagging, this process improves the accuracy from 73.24% to 86.84% on unseen CEA text, and reduces the percentage of out-ofvocabulary words from 28.98% to 16.66%. The process holds promise for any NLP task targeting the dialectal varieties of Arabi...

Analysis of ancient DNA (aDNA) extracted from Ascaris is very important for understanding the phylogenetic lineage of the parasite species. When aDNAs obtained from a Joseon tomb (SN2-19-1) coprolite in which Ascaris eggs were identified were amplified with primers for cytochrome b (cyt b) and 18S small subunit ribosomal RNA (18S rRNA) gene, the outcome exhibited Ascaris specific amplicon bands...

Genetic diversity provides the raw material for populations to respond to changing environmental conditions. The evolution of diversity within populations is based on the accumulation of mutations and their retention or loss through selection and genetic drift, while migration can also introduce new variation. However, the extent to which population growth and sustained large population size ca...

In this article, we re-examine some of the classical pointwise multiplication theorems in Sobolev-Slobodeckij spaces, and along the way we cite a simple counterexample that illustrates how certain multiplication theorems fail in Sobolev-Slobodeckij spaces when a bounded domain is replaced by R. We identify the source of the failure, and examine why the same failure is not encountered in Bessel ...

This paper emerges from a book I am writing entitled ‘Europe’s Green Revolution: the Rise and Fall of Peasant-Friendly Plant-Breeding, 1890-1945’. For the most part it concentrates upon the emergence in Central Europe during the 1890s of a movement which aimed to bring the advantages of modern plant-breeding to smallholders, the work of the state plant-breeding stations which were founded as a ...

Research on ancient DNA (aDNA) has the potential to enable molecular biologists and archeologists to decipher certain aspects of history by direct looking into the past. However, several major problems in this field limit the applicability of aDNA studies, most importantly contamination with modern DNA and postmortem DNA degradation. In this study we extracted and analyzed aDNA obtained from ~3...

The origins of Western culture extensively relate to Ancient Greek culture. While many ancient cultures have contributed to our current knowledge about medicine and the origins of psychiatry, the Ancient Greeks were among the best observers of feelings and moods patients expressed towards medicine and toward what today is referred to as 'psychopathology'. Myths and religious references were use...

Recent advancements in sequencing technologies have made it possible to sequence large quantities of the DNA preserved in ancient remains. This DNA differs from modern DNA in three key aspects. First, the DNA is fragmented into short molecules. Second, the DNA is damaged leading to misreads bases during sequencing. Last, molecules from the ancient species are mixed with molecules from microbial...