As per the present available information, there is a discrepancy regarding the total number of exons present in MUC16 genomic DNA. This discrepancy is due to the absence/presence of some of the genomic sequences (particularly for the repeat regions) in the available genomic databases. The terminal nine exons on both 5' and 3' ends code for the aminoand carboxyterminal domains of MUC16, respecti...

Mangroves are valuable contributors to coastal ecosystems, and remote sensing is an indispensable way to obtain knowledge of the dynamics of mangrove ecosystems. Due to the similar spectral features between mangroves and other land cover types, challenges are posed since the accuracy is sometimes unsatisfactory in distinguishing mangroves from other land cover types with traditional classificat...

Sophisticated gated recurrent neural network architectures like LSTMs and GRUs have been shown to be highly effective in a myriad of applications. We develop an un-gated unit, the statistical recurrent unit (SRU), that is able to learn long term dependencies in data by only keeping moving averages of statistics. The SRU’s architecture is simple, un-gated, and contains a comparable number of par...

Relevant information is required in all kinds of information-based systems. It is not a trivial task to locate the right piece of information since it may be diicult (or impossible) to specify query requests precisely and completely. Thus, a exible retrieval algorithm is required, allowing for an imprecise query speciication. The document presents an approach to judging relevance of retrieved i...

This paper describes ROSA, a software reuse system based on the processing of the natural language descriptions of software artifacts. Lexical, syntactic and semantic analysis of software descriptions is performed to automatically extract both verbal and nominal phrases from descriptions and use this information to create frame-based indexing units for software components. Retrieval similarity ...

This paper describes the new framework of context-dependent (CD) Initial/Final (IF) acoustic modeling using the decision tree based state tying for continuous Chinese speech recognition. The Extended Initial/Final (XIF) set is chosen as the basic speech recognition unit (SRU) set according to the Chinese language characteristics, which outperforms the standard IF set. An adaptive mixture increa...

Cities have undergone many changes since the 1950s, not least the expansion of urban areas to the detriment of the historic central areas, some of which have been left to decay. In Portugal the most visible results of this phenomenon are found in themetropolitan areas of Lisbon andPorto. To address this problem, the Portuguese Government conceived the first legal instrument for urban regenerati...

During the last several years, environmental impact assessment, regional or spatial planning, and environmental balancing seem to develop similarities, e.g. joint basic methodological approaches like the use of environmental indicators, the focus on same environmental goods like air, water, soil, flora/fauna, etc. (Lenz, 1999). Especially Geographical Information System (GIS)-based software sys...

Databases are an indispensable resource for retrieving up-to-date information. However, curious database operators may be able to find out the users’ interests when the users buy something from the database. For these cases, if the digital goods have the identical prices, then a k-out-of-n oblivious transfer protocol could help the users to hide their choices, but when the goods have different ...