Inverted duplications are a common type of copy number variation (CNV) in germline and somatic genomes. Large duplications that include many genes can lead to both neurodevelopmental phenotypes in children and gene amplifications in tumors. There are several models for inverted duplication formation, most of which include a dicentric chromosome intermediate followed by breakage-fusion-bridge (B...

Sliding mode control is quickly becoming a popular research ...eld due to the several favorable qualities, including robustness. Linear quadratic control has been one of the more popular and more traditional control techniques, partially due to the ease of implementation and its optimality quality. In this paper, we provide an introduction to sliding mode control. A technique is suggested to al...

This chapter seeks to elaborate on two points. First, the authors would like to focus on the inverted (flipped) classroom, by providing a detailed understanding of it, as well as, current practices. Second, the authors want to propose that instructors become end-user developers, in other words, becoming content creators and designers of their technology usage in the inverted classroom. For inst...

Intermittent predictive pole-placement control is successfully applied to the constrained-state control of a prestabilised experimental inverted pendulum.

 Overall, taking account of both coverage and formula effect differences and within the limitations of how price data is collected within the UK, the Retail Prices Index (RPI) is as good a consumer price index as one can get for uprating purposes. The systemic difference between the RPI and the Consumer Prices Index (CPI), currently (2015) running at 1.0 percentage points per annum, results pr...

This research examined the effects of past creative experience and attitude toward risk-taking on creativity before and after training. College students enrolled in a creativity course participated in the study. Creativity was assessed by independent experts and self-assessed by the participants. Based on the results, an inverted Ushape relationship was proposed between (a) past creative experi...

In this paper, we propose a common phrase index as an efficient index structure to support phrase queries in a very large text database. Our structure is an extension of previous index structures for phrases and achieves better query efficiency with negligible extra storage cost. In our experimental evaluation, a common phrase index has 5% and 20% improvement in query time for the overall and l...

Edwards curves have attracted great interest for several reasons. When curve parameters are chosen properly, the addition formulas use only 10M+1S. The formulas are strongly unified, i.e., work without change for doublings; even better, they are complete, i.e., work without change for all inputs. Dedicated doubling formulas use only 3M + 4S, and dedicated tripling formulas use only 9M + 4S. Thi...