Williams syndrome (WS) is a unique genetic developmental disorder characterized by excessive social behaviour accompanied by exaggerated prosody. While past studies with off-line assessment of prosodic skills report significant delays in prosodic skills in individuals with WS as compared to typically developing controls, reports typically lack speech analysis. The current study, using a speech ...

Beginning with SOAP, Web Services (WS) have now been around for about five years. They have reached the point where mainstream customers are beginning to use them or at least seriously consider doing so. Based on my own experience, most successful WS applications reside inside the enterprise, where they help integrate disparate systems. Typically, these integrations are based on fairly simple u...

Along with a continuously growing number of publicly available Web services (WS), we are witnessing a rapid development in semantic-related web technologies, which lead to the apparition of semantically described WS. In this work, we perform a comparative analysis of the syntactic and semantic approaches used to describe WS, from a complex network perspective. First, we extract syntactic and se...

Previous studies of children with Williams syndrome (WS) have found a specific deficit in dorsal cortical stream function, indicated by poor performance in coherence thresholds for motion compared to form. Here we investigated whether this is a transient developmental feature or a persisting aspect of cerebral organization in WS. Motion and form coherence thresholds were tested in a group of 45...

BACKGROUND Recent clinical studies have shown that the number of interstitial mast cells increases in various types of renal disease and correlates well with the magnitude of interstitial fibrosis. The present study was conducted to assess the role of mast cells in renal fibrosis by examining an experimental glomerular disease. METHODS A rat model of chronic glomerular disease, puromycin amin...

4 Recently, the term Web services orchestration has been introduced to address some issues related to Web services composition, 5 that is the way of defining a complex service out of simpler ones. Several proposals for describing orchestration for business 6 processes have been presented in the last years and many of these languages make use of concepts as long-running transactions and 7 compen...

operation is true of a retrieved state, the representation state must satisfy the pre-condition of the representation operation. Theorem 8.6 For the first example in the preceding section, the sequent form of the domain obligation 8.4: ws ∈ Dicta, w ∈Word ` pre-CHECKWORD(w , retr -Dict(ws)) ⇒ pre-CHECKWORDa(w ,ws) is vacuously true because the operation on the representation is total. Theorem 8...

Hypothesis / aims of study The interstitial cells of Cajal (ICC) are primary pacemaker cells responsible for generating smooth muscle activity in the gastrointestinal tract. ICCs express the proto-oncogene c-kit, 3 and signaling via the receptor kinase gene product, KIT, is essential for the development of phenotype and rhythmicity. ICC-like cells form close connections with suburothelial nerve...

BACKGROUND Constrictive vascular remodeling (VR) is the most significant component of restenosis after balloon angioplasty (PTA). Whereas in physiological conditions VR is associated with normalization of shear stress (SS) and wall stress (WS), after PTA the role of SS and WS in VR is unknown. Furthermore, whereas matrix metalloproteinase inhibition (MMPI) has been shown to modulate VR after PT...