In this paper we give some new criteria for identifying the components of a probability measure, in its Lebesgue decomposition. This enables us to give new criteria to identify spectral types of self-adjoint operators on Hilbert spaces, especially those of interest.

An important step in the characterization of any protein is to determine whether it exists in a complex with other proteins and, if it does, to identify its partners. This chapter describes a new technique to identify interacting proteins. It is a based on in vitro expression cloning (IVEC), which was recently developed to screen cDNA libraries rapidly and systematically according to the functi...

Information about the animacy of nouns is important for a wide range of tasks in NLP. In this paper, we present a method for determining the animacy of English nouns using WordNet and machine learning techniques. Our method firstly categorises the senses from WordNet using an annotated corpus and then uses this information in order to classify nouns for which the sense is not known. Our evaluat...

Visual channels detect specific frequencies or orientations of periodic visual patterns, such as gratings. However, when we look at the world, we rarely see gratings. Mostly, we see complex objects. Aside from being used to detect simple patterns, what role do channels play in identifying real life objects like letters? Since letters contain multiple orientations, there must be a mechanism in t...

Phosphodiesterase 4 (PDE4) has been established as a promising target in asthma andchronic obstructive pulmonary disease. PDE4B subtype selective inhibitors are known toreduce the dose limiting adverse effect associated with non-selective PDE4B inhibitors. Thismakes the development of PDE4B subtype selective inhibitors a desirable research goal. Toachieve this goal, ligand based pharmacophore m...