BACKGROUND As a consequence of recent RNAseq efforts, miRNAomes of diverse tissues and species are available. However, most interactions between microRNAs and regulated mRNAs are still to be deciphered. While in silico analysis of microRNAs results in prediction of hundreds of potential targets, bona-fide interactions have to be verified e.g. by luciferase reporter assays using fused target sit...

Soil moisture is a crucial component of the water cycle and plays an important role in regional weather climate. However, owing to lack In Situ observations, accurate understanding spatiotemporal variations soil (SM) on Tibetan Plateau (TP) still lacking. this study, we used three gridded SM products characterize features TP during warm season (May August). We analyzed fifth-generation European...

The S-Map is a network with a simple learning algorithm that combines the self-organization capability of the Self-Organizing Map (SOM) and the probabilistic interpretability of the Generative Topographic Mapping (GTM). The simulations suggest that the SMap algorithm has a stronger tendency to self-organize from random initial configuration than the GTM. The S-Map algorithm can be further simpl...

This paper reports the outcomes of a longitudinal study on the CLEF Ad Hoc track in order to assess its impact in the last fifteen years on the effectiveness of monolingual, bilingual and multilingual information access and retrieval systems. 1 Motivations and Approach Experimental evaluation has been a key driver for research and innovation in the Information Retrieval (IR) field since its inc...

A multi-channel statistical classifier to detect prostate cancer was developed by combining information from 3 different MR methodologies: T2-weighted, T2-mapping, and Line Scan Diffusion lmaging(LSDI). From these MR sequences, 4 sets of image intensities were obtained: T2-weighted(T2W) from T2-weighted imaging, Apparent Diffusion Coefficient(ADC) from LSDI, and Proton Density (PD) and T2 (T2Ma...

The opportunistic human pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa can thrive under microaerophilic to anaerobic conditions in the lungs of cystic fibrosis patients. RNASeq based comparative RNA profiling of the clinical isolate PA14 cultured in synthetic cystic fibrosis medium was performed after planktonic growth (OD600 = 2.0; P), 30 min after shift to anaerobiosis (A-30) and after anaerobic biofilm gro...

A multitemporal algorithm, originally conceived for the C-band radar aboard the Sentinel-1 satellite, has been updated to retrieve soil moisture from L-band radar data, such as those provided by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Soil Moisture Active/ Passive (SMAP) mission. This type of algorithm may deliver more accurate soil moisture maps that mitigate the effect of roughness ...

Scanning L-band Active Passive (SLAP) is a recently-developed NASA airborne instrument specially tailored to simulate the new Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) satellite instrument suite [1]. SLAP conducted its first test flights in December, 2013 and participated in its first science campaign—the IPHEX ground validation campaign of the GPM mission—in May, 2014. This paper will present result...