Identifying intertextual relationships between authors is of central importance to the study of literature. We report an empirical analysis of intertextuality in classical Latin literature using word embedding models. To enable quantitative evaluatio
n of intertextual search methods, we curate a new dataset of 945 known parallels drawn from traditional scholarship on Latin epic poetry. We train an optimized word2vec model on a large corpus of lemmatized Latin, which achieves state-of-the-art performance for synonym detection and outperforms a widely used lexical method for intertextual search. We then demonstrate that training embeddings on very small corpora can capture salient aspects of literary style and apply this approach to replicate a previous intertextual study of the Roman historian Livy, which relied on hand-crafted stylometric features. Our results advance the development of core computational resources for a major premodern language and highlight a productive avenue for cross-disciplinary collaboration between the study of literature and NLP.
Background& Objective: The aim of this study was to know the Allele frequencies for the 15 STR loci in the sample in Aleppo in Syria.
Materials & Methods: Allele frequencies for the 15 STR loci included in the PowerPlex16 PCR Amplification Kit panel
from (Promega, Madison, USA) according to manufacturer’s instructions
(D3S1358, TH01, D21S11, D18S51, PentaE, D5S818, D13S317, D7S820, D16S539, CSF1PO, PenyaD, vWA, D8S1179, T, POX , FGA) and several statistical parameters were estimated from a sample of 127 unrelated individuals representing all ethnic groups in Aleppo in Syria . DNA was extracted from blood samples using QIAmp1 DNA Mini Kit (QIAGEN, Hagen, Germany) according to manufacturer’s instructions and the PCR products were typed using an ABI PRISM 310 Genetic Analyzer (Applied Biosystems, Foster City, CA, USA)). The results were analyzed using GeneMapper ID v3.0 software (Applied Biosystems). Several forensic and population parameters such as heterozygosity, polymorphic information content (PIC), power of discrimination (PD), power of exclusion (PE) and the paternity index (PI)) were calculated using Microsoft Excel-2007. A p-value of the 15 loci were estimated by using the statistical Microsoft Windows 2007 to verify whether the genotype distribution conformed to Hardy-
Weinberg equilibrium predictions.
Results : We compared our data with other data sets from published studies of individuals from Turkey, Morocco and Iraq, our data indicate that standardized multilocus STR panels may be a useful forensic tool which can be applied for identification purposes also in the Syria population.
Conclusion: Our Data may be a useful forensic tool which can be applied for identification purposes also in the Syria population.
This research aims at establishing
and testing protocols for isolation, in vitro proliferation, phenotyping, and
differentiation of MSCs embedded in umbilical cord tissues of Syrian
newborns.
MSCs were isolated from two caesarian births depending
on their
adherence characteristic on plastic surfaces, and cells were cultured in MSC
medium for their growth and proliferation. Cell phenotyping was performed by
flow cytometry using fluorescent monoclonal antibodies specific to MSCs’
surface markers. Cultured cells were passed several times and a portion of
these cells was cryopreserved in liquid nitrogen, and cell viability was assessed.
Differentiation of these MSCs into adipocytes was conducted using culture
medium Indomethacin and hydrocortisone.
