Transition seeds exhibit a good tradeoff between sensitivity and specificity for homology search in both coding and non-coding regions. However, identifying good transition seeds is intractable. This work studies the hit probability of high-order seed patterns. Based on our theoretical results, we propose an efficient method for ranking transition seeds for seed design and list good seeds in di...

We have set out to create a system that gives essay feedback by identifying stronger and weaker parts of a given essay. In order to do this, we have created a two step model: the first step uses an LSTM to turn a chunk of an essay into an encoding vector. The second step uses a feed forward network to assign a score to an encoding. We believe that if the feed forward network is able to predict ...

ICT has become an important part of the curriculum in Hong Kong’s early childhood settings. However, practitioners may experience challenges in integrating ICT successfully into teaching and learning. This paper reports a study that investigated ICT in two kindergartens in Hong Kong. Findings suggested that principals and teachers have different views regarding the use of ICT with young childre...

Cloud IaaS and PaaS tenants rely on cloud providers to provide network infrastructures that make the appropriate tradeoff between cost and performance. This can include mechanisms to help customers understand the performance requirements of their applications. Previous research (e.g., Proteus and Cicada) has shown how to do this for network-bandwidth demands, but cloud tenants may also need to ...

The paper examines the validity of two indices of sustainability: family planning programme sustainability (PSI) and outcome sustainability (OSI) developed by Tsui and Knight (1997) by applying their original method to recent data. The indices succeed in identifying the directional path of programme and outcome sustainability. Close correlations are found between PSI and OSI predicted values an...

1. Reminder on quotient groups Let G be a group and H a subgroup of G. We have seen that the left cosets xH of H in G give a partition of G. Motivated by the case of quotients of rings by ideals, it is natural to consider the product operation on cosets. Recall that for any subsets S, T of G, by ST we mean {st | s ∈ S, t ∈ T }. If G is commutative, the product of two left cosets is another left...

This article deciphers and analyzes a  previously unknown Sassanian mint location represented by the inscription WLČ., based on the analysis of a Middle Persian inscription found in Persepolis, and on the linguistic changes that occurred during the transition to modern Persian. Evidence is presented to show that this previously unknown Sassanian mint designation corresponds to the modern-day ci...