MOTIVATION An automatic sequence searching method (ProtEST) is described which constructs multiple protein sequence alignments from protein sequences and translated expressed sequence tags (ESTs). ProtEST is more effective than a simple TBLASTN search of the query against the EST database, as the sequences are automatically clustered, assembled, made non-redundant, checked for sequence errors, ...

A mock protest confrontation staged yesterday afternoon in the Huddle by members of the C.Y.O. and S.L.E.R.T. proved unexpectedly successful when the objects of the protest, the two shooting-gam e machines, were ordered removed from the Huddle by manager Ernest Eero. The protest, part o f a continu­ ing joke being played by both groups in a reversal of their well known political positions, cons...

The youth have long represented an important constituency for electoral mobilization in Africa. Today, as the region faces a growing ‘youth bulge’ that is disproportionately burdened by unand underemployment, capturing the votes of this demographic is becoming more important than ever before. Yet, despite their numerical importance and the historical relevance of generational identities within ...

In Western democracies, popular political radicalism declined in the wake of the protest cycle of the 1960s and 1970s. What appeared instead is a ‘‘social movement society,’’ where protest becomes increasingly institutionalized and ‘‘civic’’ rather than disruptive. As the editors of the volume The Social Movement Society put it, ‘‘although disruption appears to be the most effective political t...

research councils and other funding agencies around the world, it has in recent years made headlines by investing record sums in infrastructure projects. In the Joint Infrastructure Fund, the grants given by the trust in partnership with the UK government and its research councils are often used as a lever to make government money available. For instance, the trust might approach the government...

Tactical repertoires of mobilization and repression play an essential role in understanding dynamics political violence, yet existing quantitative approaches focus primarily on intensities or counts repressive actions. We instead the diversity repression, demonstrate a novel method measuring state using event data. show that more states are likely to employ diverse rather than specializing narr...

The events of 2020 on the territory city Khabarovsk have become a cause for surprise almost all residents Russia. Few people could imagined such sharp reaction to detention former governor Territory, S.I. Furgal, and further development these among local community. If by winter 2021 bulk protests outlived their usefulness, do not say that they are impossible in future. In this regard, main purp...

Since the mid-seventies, an extensive body of literature has analyzed political activism in Western democracies, utilizing the methods of survey research, historical comparisons, and events analysis to understand the ways that people participate in the public sphere, the processes that lead them to do so, and the consequences of these acts. By contrast, far less has been established about the c...

We present PROTEST, a test suite for the evaluation of pronoun translation by MT systems. The test suite comprises 250 hand-selected pronoun tokens and an automatic evaluation method which compares the translations of pronouns in MT output with those in the reference translation. Pronoun translations that do not match the reference are referred for manual evaluation. PROTEST is designed to supp...

BACKGROUND In the face of the dual TB/HIV epidemic, the ProTEST Initiative was one of the first to demonstrate the feasibility of providing collaborative TB/HIV care for people living with HIV (PLWH) in poor settings. The ProTEST Initiative facilitated collaboration between service providers. Voluntary counselling and testing (VCT) acted as the entry point for services including TB screening an...