When an addressee is the reference object predicated by a spatial term, does a speaker’s assumption that the reference object is the addressee influence the speaker’s comprehension of spatial terms? This study examined this point by using four Japanese spatial terms. Results indicated that such an assumption biased and changed the boundary defined by the spatial terms and that this bias might b...

One of the most important problems in modern genomics is to identify which genes are responsible for an specific phenomenon within the cell. This problem can be partially answered by comparing expression data from two sets of related experiments, for instance a set of cancerous and a set of healthy cells, and genes with similar expression level. Unfortunately, the number of genes is usually muc...