dinucleotides are the rarest dinucleotides in genomes, Ficz says that 75–85% of these dinucleotides are methylated in mammals (p. 14). However, when they group together to form CpG islands at promoter regions, they are generally unmethylated. Adding that this so-called ‘hypermethylation’ effectively shuts down genes, Ficz says that promoter hypermethylation is rare during development, yet incre...

In 1922 the Russian geologist Vladimir Vernadsky coined the term “biogeochemistry” in recognition of the intimate connections that exist between living organisms and the physical components of the Earth. This insight came after many failed attempts to understand the chemical makeup of the Earth’s atmosphere and crust through strictly geochemical processes, ignoring the influence of element inte...

The focus of this paper is the syntax of inverse scope in Hungarian, a language that largely disambiguates quantifier scope at spell-out. Inverse scope is attributed to alternate orderings of potentially large chunks of structure, but with appeal to base-generation, as opposed to nonfeature-driven movement as in Kayne 1998. The proposal is developed within mirror theory and conforms to the assu...

H.M. Gladney (B.A., Toronto, 1960; Ph.D., Princeton, 1963) has been an ACM Member since 1985 and a Fellow of the American Physical Society since 1975. As an IBM Research Staff Member from 1963 to 2000, he led the architecture and pilot work for three projects that quickly led to hugely successful products: IBM Resource Access Control Facility, IBM Event Driven Executive, and IBM Digital Library...

Traditional approaches to quantiier scope typically need stipulation to exclude readings that are unavailable to human under-standers. This paper shows that quantiier scope phenomena can be precisely characterized by a semantic representation constrained by surface constituency, if the distinction between referential and quantii-cational NPs is properly observed. A CCG implementation is describ...

The US automobile industry has been the subject of a wide range of policy objectives, particularly within the past twenty five years. Some of these policies, for example fuel economy and emission standards, are roughly complementary, where improvements in one area can also lead to improvements in the other. However, some of these policies conflict with one another, for example, safety and fuel ...

The purpose of this study, which was carried out during the 1972-73 school year at three parochial schools in the Houston area, was to determine the effectiveness of the Toothkeeper Program, a multimedia program of oral hygiene training carefully developed and packaged to establish effective long-term dental hygiene practice. The study population consisted of students in the first through sixth...

Aims and Scope: Mechanisms of Development is an international journal whose purpose is to communicate contemporary studies in developmental biology with special emphasis on the characterization of molecular mechanisms underlying developmental processes in either vertebrates, invertebrates or plants. Areas of particular interest include embryogenesis, pattern formation, cell movement and morphog...

This paper describes a novel audio only interface for selecting music which enables us to select songs without having to click a mouse. Using previous music players with normal headphones, we can hear only one song at a time and we thus have to play pieces individually to select the one we want to hear from numerous new music files, which involves a large number of mouse operations. The main ad...