ABSTRACT. Determinations of the ethical acceptability of genetic therapy have relied on several distinctions in attempts to separate ethically acceptable genetic therapy from those possible therapies that could lead to genetic modifications of future human beings. One distinction that has been

Low dimensional and speaker-independent linear vocal tract parametrizations can be obtained using the 3-mode PARAFAC factor analysis procedure first introduced by Harshman et al. (1977). The following study used PARAFAC to investigate the stress distinction in German vowel production. Tongue

aliasing, i.e., perceptual ambiguities. In contrast, what constitutes a good landmark, or how to select landmarks for mapping, is still an open research topic. The usual method of landmark selection is to map perceptions at regular intervals, which has the drawback of being inefficient and possibly missing

distinct sets of attributes and drawbacks. The third approach seeks to combine the best attributes of the first two. Contents 1 Introduction and problem statement 1 2 Motivating Examples 3 3 Approximation methods 4 3.1 SVD-based approximation methods

. One of the main drawbacks of SIFT is its vulnerability to color images, being designed mainly for the gray images. To overcome this problem and also to increase the overall distinctness of the SIFT in this paper we introduce a new descriptor that combines the SIFT approach with the color co

Approved for public release; distribution unlimited 13. ABSTRACT WPaaomum 200 words) Evaluating the thermal performance of tank cannon components, such as thermal shrouds, muzzle reference system collimators, barrel paint, or thermal signature, by means of firing live ammunition has distinct

distribution of the first hitting times of the target are thoroughly computed (expectation and variance) up to terms of order l (the size of the bitstrings) in two distinct situations: without any selection, or with the deterministic (1+1)-ES selection on the OneMax problem. In both cases, the 1-bit

Background: Dedifferentiation and loss of hepatocyte polarity during primary culture of hepatocytes are major drawbacks for metabolic analyses. As a prominent profibrotic cytokine and potent inducer of epithelial mesenchymal transition (EMT), TGF-β contributes to these processes in liver epithelial

Individuals with certain types of central nervous system damage, such as stroke, have an asymmetric walking gait. Using a split-belt treadmill, where each leg walks at a different speed, has been shown to help rehabilitate walking impaired individuals, but there is one distinct drawback

tin n-g a (wi. T nti 8 m spl ent 10 seq capillary action, electrophoresis, electroosmosis, electrowetting, with a means of controlling the particles within those droplets is platform suffers from three distinct drawbacks. First, each reported system restricts particle movement to specific regions