We present a syntactic parser of (transcripts of) spoken Hebrew: a dependency parser of the Hebrew CHILDES database. CHILDES is a corpus of child–adult linguistic interactions. Its Hebrew section has recently been morphologically analyzed and disambiguated, paving the way for syntactic annotation. This paper describes a novel annotation scheme of dependency relations reflecting constructions of...

Sodium (Na) channel cDNAs were synthesized from RNA isolated from rat brain, cardiac muscle, and skeletal muscle. Partial cDNAs coding for the largest cytoplasmic loop of the Na channel were amplified with PCR. Sequence analysis of these cDNAs revealed that Na channel cDNAs originally described as brain genes were also expressed in both cardiac and skeletal muscle. Some of these cDNAs were isof...

Most speech recognition systems try to reconstruct a word sequence given an acoustic input, using prior information about the language being spoken. In some cases, there is more information available to the decoder than simply the acoustics. When decoding a television news broadcast, for example, the closed-caption information that is often recorded for hearing impaired viewers may also be avai...

PIWI proteins and their associated small RNAs (PIWI-interacting RNAs, piRNAs) are essential for fertility in mammals. piRNAs (24–35 nt) are longer than miRNAs (21–23 nt) and have 2'-O-methyl-modified 3' termini. Like miRNAs, piRNAs bind members of the Argonaute family of proteins, but piRNAs are unique in that they guide PIWI proteins, a specialized subfamily of Argonaute proteins that are expr...

Background: The induction of brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) expression in the hippocampus has shown to play a role in the beneficial effects of resveratrol (RSV) on the learning and memory. The BDNF gene has a complicated structure with eight 5’ noncoding exons (I-IXa), each of which can splice to a common coding exon (IX) to form a functional transcript. Estrogens increase levels of ...

Background: The oocyte is a unique cell committed to reprogram fertilizing sperm and to support early stages of embryonic development until the species-specific stage of zygote genome activation that occurs around the second to third cell cycle in sheep embryos. In this sense, considering the huge list of oocyte transcripts, we selected some candidates genes based on their roles of regulating di...

Recent years have seen the increasing understanding of the crucial role of RNA in the functioning of the eukaryotic genome. These discoveries, fueled by the achievements of the FANTOM, and later GENCODE and ENCODE consortia, led to the recognition of the important regulatory roles of natural antisense transcripts (NATs) arising from what was previously thought to be 'junk DNA'. Roughly defined ...

mRNA degradation rate is one of the key stages gene expression regulation in eukaryotic cells. To date, intertwined processes post-transcriptional control have been widely investigated, but focused rather on examination mechanisms controlling stability particular protein-coding transcripts. Currently, a wealth information from structural, biochemical, and high-throughput studies makes it tempti...

  The sporozoites of Theileria annulata invade bovine MHC II cells, where they differentiate into schizonts. The later can immortalize and induce fundamental changes in their host cells. Live attenuated vaccine is an important way of controlling T. annulata infection of cattle. Production is by prolonged cultivation of macroschizont-infected cells. The mechanisms underlying this transformation ...

The purpose of central bank minutes is to give an account monetary policy meeting discussions outside observers, thereby enabling them draw informed conclusions about future policy. However, are by necessity a shortened and edited representation broader discussion. Consequently, they may omit information that predictive decisions. To investigate this, we compare the content Federal Open Market ...