Ripon: Its Wakemen and their Ancient Badge

Ancient Iranian Urban Structure and its Situation in Contemporary City

Prorenin and its ancient receptor.

Prorenin, the precursor of renin, has for a long time been considered to be functionally inert, despite high circulating concentrations. Plasma levels of prorenin usually exceed renin levels and are even further increased under pathological conditions, such as in diabetes. First support of a functional significance of prorenin came from studies in transgenic rats, which overexpress a renin gene...

Badge System Analysis and Design

To incentivize users’ participations and steer their online activities, online social networks start to provide users with various kinds of rewards for their contributions to the sites. The most frequently distributed rewards include account levels, reputation scores, different kinds of badges, and even material awards like small gifts and cash back, etc. Attracted by these rewards, users will ...

The Active Badge Location

Integration of telephone systems with computer systems is an important part of the development of the automated ooce. Much work has already been undertaken integrating digital voice and data into a single network 1] but there has been less commercial eeort invested in improving the telephone interface. Although these interfaces are functionally very sophisticated they are mostly cryptic and the...

Ancient lentiviruses leave their mark.

O ne of the most remarkable insights from the human genome project was that more genetic material is devoted to vertically transmitted and defective remnants of once-infectious retroviruses, commonly referred to as endogenous retroviruses (ERVs), than to human protein-coding DNA (1). Current estimates place the ERV component of the human genome at 5–8%, comprising at least 31 distinct families,...