BACKGROUND Children with cyclic vomiting syndrome (CVS) have a high degree of maternal inheritance of functional gastrointestinal and neurological disorders. CVS in children is also associated with an increased prevalence of mitochondrial DNA single-nucleotide polymorphisms (mtDNA SNPs) 16519 T and 3010A. Preliminary data suggests that age of onset of symptoms (pediatric vs. adult) may be a det...

This paper argues that Mandarin Chinese fills a gap in the typology of comparative constructions in natural language. Beck et al. (2004) proposes that languages may vary in whether or not they allow for degree abstraction, and Kennedy (2007) proposes a distinction between comparative constructions with degree-denoting standards and individual-denoting standards. Based on these parameters, we ex...

Pattern discovery in unaligned DNA sequences is a challenge problem. A pattern is some specific nucleotide combination that it can be used to measure the similarity degree among biological sequences. The longest common subsequence (LCS) can be viewed as a pattern discovery problem and it is also a well-known NP-hard problem. In this paper, we present a memetic algorithm-based approach to solve ...

Speech disorders in ankyloglossia, especially in the young children, were studied from various clinical points and the treatment method was discussed. The subjects were classified into Group A of over 5 years of age and Group B of less than 5 years of age, and also they were classified into Patterns I to IV, according to the site of articulation of the tongue. Then the subjects were discussed f...

We examine the typology of quantityinsensitive (QI) stress systems and ask to what extent an existing optimality theoretic model of QI stress can predict the observed typological frequencies of stress patterns. We find three significant correlates of pattern attestation and frequency: the trigram entropy of a pattern, the degree to which it is “confusable” with other patterns predicted by the m...

Dynamic Time Warping (DTW) can be used to minimize distance between two sequences which display the same trends but are not perfectly aligned with each other. This feature makes DTW an effective pattern classification method for sequence matching. In Ref. [1], a fault diagnosis method using pattern classification based on adaptive rank-order morphological transform has been proposed. It uses Eu...

Echo-enhanced ultrasound is a newly available imaging modality for the evaluation of pancreatic lesions. Neoplasms of the pancreas tend to have a characteristic vascularization pattern. Adenocarcinomas are often hypovascularized as compared to the surrounding tissue. On the other hand, neuroendocrine tumors are hypervascularized lesions. Masses associated with pancreatitis have a different vasc...

background: diabetic patients have a higher prevalence of non-dipping pattern in blood pressure (bp) than general population. non-dipping arterial pressure pattern is associated with increased cardiovascular risk. the objective of this study was to investigate the association between the clinical and paraclinical characteristics of the diabetic patients with circadian bp variability. m aterials...