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Public awareness of cancer in Britain: a population-based survey of adults
Objective: To assess public awareness of cancer warning signs, anticipated delay, and perceived barriers to seeking medical advice in the British population. Methods: We carried out a populat…
Received 30 September 2009 20:17 UTC; Posted 01 October 2009
Posted to: Cancer
Simple SVM based whole-genome segmentation
We present a support vector machine (SVM) based framework for DNA segmentation into binary classes. Two applications are explored: transcription start site prediction and transcription factor bindi…
Received 29 September 2009 07:20 UTC; Posted 29 September 2009
Posted to: Bioinformatics
A novel strategy for the targeted analysis of protein and peptide metabolites
The detection and quantitation of exogenously administered biological macromolecules (e.g. vaccines, peptide and protein therapeutics) and their metabolites is frequently complicated by the presenc…
Received 29 September 2009 07:56 UTC; Posted 29 September 2009
Posted to: Biotechnology, Immunology, Pharmacology
In silico microRNA identification from paprika (Capsicum annuum) ESTs
A total of 33,311 Expressed Sequence Tags (EST) of paprika were mined from the GenBank EST database. The redundancy of the EST sequences was removed using CAP3 and it resulted 4,541 contigs 8,539 s…
Received 24 September 2009 05:19 UTC; Posted 24 September 2009
Posted to: Genetics & Genomics, Bioinformatics, Plant Biology
Interspecific differences in single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and indels in expressed sequence tag libraries of oil palm Elaeis guineensis and E. oleifera
Oil palm is the second largest source of edible oil, which meets one-fifth of global demands of oils and fats. Expressed sequence tag (EST) sequencing programs have provided a wealth of information…
Received 24 September 2009 05:38 UTC; Posted 24 September 2009
Posted to: Genetics & Genomics, Bioinformatics, Evolutionary Biology
Aven and Survivin Expression in Egyptian Acute Leukemia and Their Relation to Apoptosis
Background: Several anti apoptotic signals have been recently identified. Aven and Survivin are broadly expressed and are conserved in mammalian species. Patients and Methods: 39 AML and 25 ALL wer…
Received 16 September 2009 13:19 UTC; Posted 23 September 2009
Posted to: Cancer
Primate phylogeny: molecular evidence for a pongid clade excluding humans and a prosimian clade containing tarsiers
Interpretations of molecular data by the modern evolution theory are often sharply inconsistent with paleontological results. This is to be expected since the theory is only true for microevolutio…
Received 21 September 2009 22:18 UTC; Posted 22 September 2009
Posted to: Bioinformatics, Evolutionary Biology
Factors influencing impala distribution patterns in Nairobi National Park, Kenya
Monitoring the distribution of wild animals using appropriate methods and survey techniques is essential not only for sustainable management but also to avoid wastage of resources. This study appli…
Received 22 September 2009 14:21 UTC; Posted 22 September 2009
Posted to: Ecology, Plant Biology
The Neuroanatomic Basis of the Acupuncture Principal Meridians
Acupuncture involves treating illness by inserting needles at specified body locations (acupoints). The Principal meridians are pathways that join acupoints with related physiologic effects. Despit…
Received 22 September 2009 05:21 UTC; Posted 22 September 2009
Posted to: Neuroscience
Geometric Representations of Language Taxonomies
Complex relationships between different languages in a language family encoded in the lexicostatistic data can be subjected to a component analysis and represented geometrically, in terms of distan…
Received 20 September 2009 09:35 UTC; Posted 21 September 2009
Posted to: Earth & Environment
