The USACOM project is part of the larger SAIC/BBN Advanced Joint Planning (AJP) Advanced Concepts Technology Demonstration (ACTD). The primary objective of the project is to demonstrate the effectiveness of Tipster-sponsored data extraction technologies. Although this project is just now getting underway, we plan to investigate the applicability of data extraction technologies in a number of sc...

The recent development of third generation sequencing (TGS) generates much longer reads than second generation sequencing (SGS) and thus provides a chance to solve problems that are difficult to study through SGS alone. However, higher raw read error rates are an intrinsic drawback in most TGS technologies. Here we present a computational method, LSC, to perform error correction of TGS long rea...

As Betz observed in 1979, Paul never says that Christians are supposed to ‘do’ the Torah. This article seeks to develop the argument of omission in relation to Paul and the law. What else does he not say? According to Rom. 2.17-29, Jews ‘rely on’ the law, ‘boast’ in the law, know God’s will through the law, are educated in the law, have light, knowledge and truth because of the law, are to ‘do’...

-In this paper, a Catmull-Rom spline based lane model which described the perspective effect of parallel lines was proposed for generic lane boundary. As Catmull-Rom spline can form arbitrary shapes by control points, it can describe a wider range of lane structures than other lane models such as straight and parabolic model. It formulates the lane detection problem in the form of determining t...

Optimistic replication has become an important tool in modern systems, allowing both read-only and read-write object accesses to continue even in the face of network outages and disconnected mobile computing. The quality of service delivered to a user by an optimistic system has traditionally been measured in terms of the rate of connicting updates. We show that this measure does not accurately...

Oxytetracycline-resistant bacteria were isolated from a mariculture farm in China, and accounted for 32.23% and 5.63% of the total culturable microbes of the sea cucumber and the sea urchin rearing waters respectively. Marine vibrios, especially strains related to Vibrio splendidus or V. tasmaniensis, were the most abundant resistant isolates. For oxytetracycline resistance, tet(A), tet(B) and ...