The NSF ADVANCE program was begun in response to MIT’s 1999 report “A Study on the Status of Women Faculty in Science at MIT.” The program’s stated goals are to increase the recruitment, retention, and promotion into leadership positions of women in engineering and the sciences, and to institutionalize best practices, policies and programs across colleges as they pertain to women faculty . This...

Next-generation sequencing (NGS) of bisulfite-converted DNA to detect methylation status with per-base resolution is currently restricted by the requirement of large amounts of input material. Here we show how the Accel-NGS® Methyl-Seq DNA library kit, with its unique chemistry, enables the construction of high-complexity libraries from 1 ng of input. With this kit, scientists will no longer be...

background and aim: vitamin d has immune-regulatory functions in experimental inflammatory bowel disease (ibd) and vitamin d deficiency is common in ibd patients. the aim of the study was to assess the effectiveness of vitamin d 3 [1,25(oh) 2 d 3 ] treatment in ibd with regard to tumor necrosis factor-alpha (tnf-?) serum level and  clinical disease activity index (cdai). materials and methods: ...

We study abduction in First Order Horn logic theories where all atoms can be abduced and we are looking for prefered solutions with respect to objective functions cardinality minimality, Coherence, or Weighted Abduction. We represent this reasoning problem in Answer Set Programming (ASP), in order to obtain a flexible framework for experimenting with global constraints and objective functions, ...

Abstract OpenMP is one of the mainstream parallel programming models in recent years. After version 4.0, introduced a new target instruction to increase functionality heterogeneous programming, called Offload. For domestic platform DCU, thread scheduling algorithm under computing has low performance default mode, which does not take best advantage GPU and wasted resources. To address this probl...