Family firms form the backbone of most world’s economies. While issues surrounding family are diverse, gender diversity and its impact on strategic financial decisions such is a topic that has generated significant debate in recent years. In particular, one crucial unresolved questions whether or not increasing female presence firms’ corporate governance bodies would be beneficial for improving...

Whole genome association has recently demonstrated some remarkable successes in identifying loci involved in disease. Designing these studies involves selecting a subset of known single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) or tag SNPs to be genotyped. The problem of choosing tag SNPs is an active area of research and is usually formulated such that the goal is to select the fewest number of tag SNPs...

Land degradation is one of the most significant environmental problems in the semi-arid and arid savannas of Southern Africa. Degradation affects vegetation structure, cover and patchiness and this result in the loss of vegetation resources used by rural populations (grazing, fuel wood, and other non-timber forest products) and wildlife. Land degradation processes are influenced by rainfall, la...

DNA Data Bank of Japan (DDBJ) provides Web-based systems for biological analysis, called Web APIs for biology (WABI). So far, we have developed over 20 SOAP services and several workflows that consist of a series of method invocations. In this article, we present newly developed services of WABI, that is, REST-based Web services, additional workflows and a workflow navigation system. Each Web s...

The orientation of physical networks is a prime task in deciphering the signaling-regulatory circuitry of the cell. One manifestation of this computational task is as a maximum graph orientation problem, where given an undirected graph with n vertices and a collection of vertex pairs, the goal is to orient the edges of the graph so that a maximum number of pairs are connected by a directed path...

IN this continuation of the special issue of papers invited from the Fifth International Workshop on Algorithms in Bioinformatics (WABI ’05), we present three papers which are summarized below. An alternative to the classical Hannenhali-Pevzner theory for sorting by reversal is described by Séverine Bérard, Anne Bergeron, Cedric Chauve, and Christophe Paul in their paper “Perfect Sorting by Rev...

As a core activity in the tourism sector, hospitality accounts for largest share of sector’s revenue. The last few years, prior to COVID-19 pandemic, have been years strong growth both number hotel companies and available rooms. industry has also betting on diversification as well quality its services. This impact various agents thus it makes essential measure analyze sustainability these hotel...

Introduction: Hyperuricemia is defined as a level of serum uric acid greater than or equal to 70 mg/l (420 μmol/l) in men and 60 mg/l (360 μmol/l) in women. Several studies have shown that it is a risk factor or a factor of progression of chronic kidney disease. Recent experimental and epidemiological data correlate the association of hyperuricemia with chronic kidney disease (CKD), arterial hy...

RETURN TO ISSUEPREVAddition/CorrectionNEXTORIGINAL ARTICLEThis notice is a correctionCorrection to “Tissue Lipidomic Alterations Induced by Prolonged Dexamethasone Treatment”Adriana Zardini BuzattoAdriana BuzattoMore Adriana Buzattohttp://orcid.org/0000-0001-7977-4102, Abeer MalkawiAbeer MalkawiMore Malkawi, Essa M. SabiEssa SabiMore Sabi, Ahmed H. MujamammiAhmed MujamammiMore Mujamammi, Liang ...

Sugarcane mosaic potyvirus (SCMV) UP-isolate was antigenically similar to SCMV-A, SCMVMDB and two SCMV isolates from Thailand. The results were confirmed either by DAC-ELISA, EBIA, DIBA and ISEM independently or in combination. No reaction was evident with antiserum specific for other members of the Sugarcane mosaic potyvirus subgroup or any other potyviruses tested. The peptide profiling of a ...