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Open AccessGeography shapes the genomics and antimicrobial resistance of Salmonella enterica Serovar Enteritidis isolated from humans
Multidrug-resistant (MDR) Salmonella has been a long-standing challenge in public health and food safety. The prevalence of MDR S. Enteritidis, especially isolated from humans, in China is significantly higher th...
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A Comprehensive Method for Seismic Impact Chain Assessment of Urban Lifeline Infrastructure: A Case Study of Taipei Area, Taiwan
Infrastructure refers to an aggregation of numerous facilities that constitute the backbone of urban operations. The lifeline systems are usually interdependent; thus, any damage to one system can cause a chai...
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Identification of a Frank–Kasper Z phase from shape amphiphile self-assembly
Frank–Kasper phases, a family of ordered structures formed from particles with spherical motifs, are found in a host of materials, such as metal alloys, inorganic colloids and various types of soft matter. All...
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Frank-Kasper and related quasicrystal spherical phases in macromolecules
Creation of diverse ordered nanostructures via self-assembly of macromolecules is a promising “bottom-up” approach towards next-generation nanofabrication technologies. It is therefore of critical importance t...
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A Children's Oncology Group and TARGET initiative exploring the genetic landscape of Wilms tumor
Elizabeth Perlman and colleagues use genome-wide sequencing, RNA expression, DNA copy number and methylation analyses to characterize the genomic landscape of Wilms tumors. Their integrated analyses implicate ...
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Open AccessCombining molecular ty** and spatial pattern analysis to identify areas of high tuberculosis transmission in a moderate-incidence county in Taiwan
In total, 303 randomly selected clinical Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) isolates from 303 patients (collected January to December 2012) in central Taiwan were examined. The major lineages found were Bei**g (N ...
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Erratum: BRD4 is a histone acetyltransferase that evicts nucleosomes from chromatin
Nat. Struct. Mol. Biol. 23, 540–548 (2016); published online 9 May 2016; corrected after print 22 July 2016 In the version of this article initially published, the blots in Figure 2c were inadvertently replace...
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Supramolecular Crystals and Crystallization with Nanosized Motifs of Giant Molecules
Supramolecular crystals and crystallization are general concepts used to describe broader aspects of ordered structures and their formation in the three-dimensional (3D) bulk and solution and in 2D thin film s...
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BRD4 is a histone acetyltransferase that evicts nucleosomes from chromatin
In vitro and in vivo analyses show that BRD4 has intrinsic acetyltransferase activity targeting histones H3 and H4, and BRD4 acetylation of H3 K122 results in histone eviction, nucleosome clearance and chromatin ...
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Open AccessMLLT1 YEATS domain mutations in clinically distinctive Favourable Histology Wilms tumours
Wilms tumour is an embryonal tumour of childhood that closely resembles the develo** kidney. Genomic changes responsible for the development of the majority of Wilms tumours remain largely unknown. Here we i...
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MagMobile: Enhancing Social Interactions with Rapid View-Stitching Games of Mobile Devices
Most mobile games are designed for users to only focus on their own screens thus lack of face-to-face interaction even users are sitting together. Past work shows that the shared information space created by m...
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Building vulnerability to debris flows in Taiwan: a preliminary study
In quantitative risk analyses for natural hazards, vulnerability can be expressed as the ratio of reconstruction, replacement or reproduction expenses due to a damage caused by a certain process intensity and ...
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Open AccessConversion events in gene clusters
Gene clusters containing multiple similar genomic regions in close proximity are of great interest for biomedical studies because of their associations with inherited diseases. However, such regions are diffic...
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Open AccessEvaluation of methods for detecting conversion events in gene clusters
Gene clusters are genetically important, but their analysis poses significant computational challenges. One of the major reasons for these difficulties is gene conversion among the duplicated regions of the cl...
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Rhythm Speech Lyrics Input for MIDI-Based Singing Voice Synthesis
This paper presents useful techniques and considerations in implementing underlying mandarin singing voice synthesis system using the RSLI unit. The system can receive the continuous speech of the lyrics of a ...
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Whole-Genome Analysis of Gene Conversion Events
Gene conversion events are often overlooked in analyses of genome evolution. In a conversion event, an interval of DNA sequence (not necessarily containing a gene) overwrites a highly similar sequence. The eve...
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An Efficient Algorithm for Near Optimal Data Allocation on Multiple Broadcast Channels
In a wireless environment, the bandwidth of the channels and the energy of the portable devices are limited. Data broadcast has become an excellent method for efficient data dissemination. In this paper, the p...
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Robalo: A Risk-Oriented Job Dispatching Mechanism for Workforce Management System
We proposed a framework, called Risk-Oriented joB dispAtching for mobiLe workfOrce management system (ROBALO), to ease the tension between (a) the reliability requirement to serve a job request, and (b) the cost ...
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Take Risks into Consideration while Job Dispatching
To deal with the uncertainty of job dispatching in mobile workforce management, we have proposed a framework, Risk-Oriented joB dispAtching for mobiLe workforce system (ROBALO) (Cha et al., 2005), to ease the ten...
