QDNC Issue #14

Companies are reluctant to shift their systems on Oracle databases to competitors like Amazon’s AWS or Microsoft cloud services. Concerns include fear of Oracle finding software license contract violations. Penalty with fees or terminating permission to use software may ensue. Software asset management is a branch of consulting that helps companies negotiate software contracts.
In Hong Kong, wealth is accumulated in property-owning magnates, unsurprisingly. The government, incentivised by revenue from land and property tax, have little reason to move into a new phase of development for the land-starved others. I have always felt strongly for Hong Kong citizens living in cage-like quarters.
WeWork has more than doubled its sales to $1.82 billion in 2018. Its losses also doubled to $1.93 bilion, with $46 million of its expenses for “transaction fees and inventory write-off”including fees for bankers and the SoftBank transactionm as well as inventory for building materials.
DARTS (Deep-learning Augmented RNA-seq analysis of Transcript Splicing) uses deep-learning based predictions on public datasets of RNA sequencing to provide insights into alternative splicing. Variations in alternative splicing may cause or exacerbate diseases. Although massively parallel RNA sequencing is now a standard technology used to investigate alternative splicing, it would require a large amount of sequences and high cost for accuracy.

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