A recent study suggests that lateral gene transfer has been particularly intense among human-associated microbes. What can this tell us about our relationship with our internal microbial world?

This paper focuses on work undertaken through the European Commission funded Bazaar project to establish a community of practice for researchers and practitioners in open source software and open content. The paper considers the use of social software to support such a communitty of practice. It consiers some of the theories and ideas behind supporting communities before going on to outline the...

Scholars have long argued that gender impacts how space can be occupied in traditional locations, such as bazaars. However, deeply divided societies an added factor of privilege relation to ethnosectarian identity has considered. This article uses intersectional lens understand people occupy the bazaar Kirkuk, Iraq. It pays particular attention intersection (Kurd, Sunni Arab, Turkmen) and gende...

During the last decades, the software for supporting hospitals’ information systems became more flexible in terms of adaptability and configurability. Some hospitals use these capabilities to create local IT innovations. However, information on these local IT innovations is rarely available, as a preceding Grounded Theory based study revealed. To tackle this shortcoming, a two year action resea...

E-commerce agents with Bayesian learning were first proposed by Zeng and Sycara in their Bazaar automated bargaining system [18]. Many studies have directly applied or extended Bazaar to agent learning. In Bayesian learning, it is critical to construct the conditional probabilities for new events in order to obtain an accurate estimation of the posterior probability. The construction of such co...

During the last decades, international outsourcing has received huge attention in political discussion as well as in economic research. In empirical studies, outsourcing is measured in different ways. The several measurements are mostly calculated from different datasets, which often lead to diverse results and thus complicate comparative analysis. In Germany, the discussion about international...

background & aim:  the aim of this study was to evaluate and compare the relationship between body image and quality of life in female patients with breast cancer and healthy women. methods:in the current descriptive, causal, comparative, cross-sectional study, 50 women with breast cancer, referring to the radiotherapy and oncology clinic of imam reza hospital (mashhad, iran) and 50 healthy wom...