Informatics expertise to support life and health sciences research and industry

Computing Infrastructure and Informatics to Support Life Sciences R&D, Therapeutics, Diagnostics and Economic Development PanelInterdisciplinary collaboration between computational sciences and life/health sciences is a hallmark of the MU Informatics Institute (MUII) and its new Informatics Ph.D. program. The Institute was established to foster synergy and interdisciplinary research applications in animal, plant, human health, geospatial and microbial sciences. Creative faculty and modern computation-based research facilities combine to enable groundbreaking collaborative research that relies heavily on informatics tools and expertise. In this talk, I will briefly introduce the informatics expertise of MUII core faculty in supporting experimental scientist's R&D activities with commercialization potentials by using an example scenario in personalized medicine. There are six signature research areas that are underpinning components: (1) high-throughput sequence assembly and analysis, (2) structural bioinformatics - prediction, retrievals, and interactions, (3) large-scale and high-throughput phenotype analysis, (4) data mining and knowledge discovery from large-scale omics databases and electronic health records (5) visualization and parallelism of informatics data, and (6) geospatial informatics

The Exploration of the “Trinity” Prototype in The Tempest

The close relationship between Shakespeare and the Christian culture has been focused on in the academic world. Especially The Tempest, which is taken as Shakespeare’s “poetry will”, is full of rich implication of Christian elements. Basing on the Myth Prototype Criticism Theory and from the aspects of character image-building and plot structure, this thesis is devoted to exploring the specific presentation mode and the plot function of the Bible Prototype-“Trinity” in The Tempest. The paper attempts to prove that the main characters in The Tempest not only borrow the Biblical archetypes of characters but also apply the relationship of “Trinity” in the Bible in organizing “sin” and “redemption” plots

Current College Public English Study in China

Recently, English education in college has become the keynote of cultivation of overall quality and the improvement of university education level. English education is one category of linguistics, which has the same characteristic as other language. At the same time, it has its own specialty that differs from mother language education. In this article, research on how to improve the English level in university has been done with integration of the reality and the law of development of the English education.in domestic university

Motivation’s Influence on Strategies for English Learning and Improving

Autonomous study emphasizes the learner s initiative, enthusiasm and creativity. In all fields of education, there is growing emphasis on “learner一centered” teaching methods and the ability of learner autonomy .Many experts and scholars have found that learning strategies plays an important role in English language learning, but the importance of affective strategy use in English learning is often ignored by people. Therefore, this paper focuses on the frequencies of affective strategies use in English learning and their relationships so as to enable college students to use positive affective strategies effectively to improve their autonomous learning ability. The article also focuses on the relationship between motivation and English learning, the influence of motivation on English learning(That is, English learning motive may be simply viewed as the reason of learning English; different motives will lead to different learning methods ; generally speaking, surface motive does not endure longer than deep motive.;strong motivation can lead to final success) and six strategies of improving English learning(That is, developing proper attitudes towards English learning and letting students know the pressure of it; goal and feedback; praise and criticism ;contest and cooperation; expectation and appraisement; achievement motive)

The Positive Role of L1 in the Acquisition of a Second Language

L1 not only plays a negative role in SLA, but also a positive role, it will be helpful if we make use of the positive effect, for the reason that there are some common characteristic among all languages, and L1 and L2 may be have similar syntax, vocabulary, and phonetics. Besides, the thinking model developed in L1 is also helpful in learn a foreign language