approximately half of employees over the world work in the gender specific jobs where at least 80 percent of the employees belong to the same gender. in fact, non-agricultural jobs specific to men are seven times more than those of women. this phenomenon shows inflexibility of job market it leads to the reduction in especially for women and decreases the economic efficiency (anker, 1998). gende...

Major advances in languages, tools and methodologies have improved our ability to develop reactive systems, but the task remains difficult, expensive and error prone. One of the key reasons is the growing complexity of many kinds of reactive systems, which increasingly prevents the human mind from managing a comprehensive picture of all their relevant elements and behaviors. We present a vision...

In this paper, we describe fully parallelized architectures for one-to-one, one-to-many, and many-to-many sequence alignments using Smith-Waterman algorithm. The architectures utilize the principles of parallelism and pipelining to the greatest extent in order to take advantage of both intrasequence and inter-sequence parallelization and to achieve high speed and throughput. First, we describe ...

We present a new lower bound technique for two types of restricted Branching Programs (BPs), namely for read-once BPs (BP1s) with restricted amount of nondeterminism and for (1,+k)-BPs. For this technique, we introduce the notion of (strictly) k-wise l-mixed Boolean functions, which generalizes the concept of l-mixedness defined by Jukna in 1988 [3]. We prove that if a Boolean function f ∈ Bn i...

3-Keto-l-gulonate 6-phosphate decarboxylase (KGPDC) and d-arabino-hex-3-ulose 6-phosphate synthase (HPS) are members of the orotidine 5'-monophosphate decarboxylase (OMPDC) suprafamily [Wise, E., Yew, W. S., Babbitt, P. C., Gerlt, J. A., and Rayment, I. (2002) Biochemistry 41, 3861-3869], a group of homologous enzymes that share the (beta/alpha)(8)-barrel fold. KGPDC catalyzes a Mg(2+)-dependen...

Our previous functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) studies have indicated that the left dorsal inferior frontal gyrus (L. dF3op/F3t) and left lateral premotor cortex (L. LPMC) are crucial regions for syntactic processing among the syntax-related networks. In the present study, we further examined how activations in these regions were modified by the factors of construction and scrambling...