Virilisation of the XX foetus is the result of androgen excess, resulting most frequently from congenital adrenal hyperplasia in individuals with typical ovarian differentiation. In rare cases, 46,XX gonads may differentiate into testes, a condition known as 46,XX testicular disorders of sex development (DSD), or give rise to the coexistence of ovarian and testicular tissue, a condition known a...

XML (eXtensible Markup Language), a linear syntax for trees, has gathered a remarkable amount of interest in industry. The acceptance of XML opens new venues for the application of formal methods such as specification of abstract syntax tree sets and tree transformations. A user domain may be specified as a set of trees. For example, XHTML is a user domain corresponding to the set of XML docume...

SUMMARY The Visual DSD (DNA Strand Displacement) tool allows rapid prototyping and analysis of computational devices implemented using DNA strand displacement, in a convenient web-based graphical interface. It is an implementation of the DSD programming language and compiler described by Lakin et al. (2011) with additional features such as support for polymers of unbounded length. It also suppo...

When logic transformations, such as circuit restructuring, technology mapping, and post-mapping optimization, are repeatedly applied to large hardware designs, millions of relatively small (6-16 input) Boolean functions have to be efficiently manipulated. This paper focuses on a novel representation of these small functions, in terms of their disjoint-support decomposition (DSD) structures. A n...

This study investigated a rainfall event under typhoon influence using 2D video disdrometer and weather radar observations to characterize raindrop size distribution (DSD) in mixed convective stratiform precipitating system. During the time period when both rainfalls existed, DSDs generally indicated monotonically decreasing shape with increasing particle size, relatively gradual decrease at in...

Clouds are largely responsible for the spread of climate models predictions. Here we focus on uncertainties in cloud shortwave radiative effect due to parameterization liquid single scattering properties (SSPs) from water content (LWC) and droplet number concentration (N), named optical properties. Uncertainties arise not accounting size distribution (DSD)—which affects estimation effective rad...

Disorders of sex development (DSD) represent a collection of rare diseases that generate substantial controversy regarding best practices for diagnosis and treatment. A significant barrier preventing a better understanding of how patients with these conditions should be evaluated and treated, especially from a psychological standpoint, is the lack of systematic and standardized approaches to id...

We present our approach for deploying and managing distributed component-based applications. A Desired State Description (DSD), written in a high-level declarative language, specifies requirements for a distributed application. Our infrastructure accepts a DSD as input, and from it automatically configures and deploys the distributed application. Subsequent violations of the original requiremen...