In Central and Eastern Europe populist regimes are attracting attention as a result of the traumatic legacy communism, subsequent overburdening reforms exhausting systemic transformation, resurgence ever-lurking nationalism, regional conservatism, parochialism cultural chauvinism, and/or an example structural shortcomings young democracies at borders civilization. The subject literature also in...

Livestock development sector remained conspicuous in many developed and developing countries. Nevertheless, animal manure management became an increasing concern relative to environmental economic constraints. The daily cow varies between 60-85 kg per 1000 of body biomass. Thus, 33 70 % biomass could be recovered the form dung for value added products such as bioenergy biofertilizer. Halhale da...

The purpose of this paper is in two folds; the first is to undertake a thorough appraisal of the existing input variable selection (IVS) methods in the context of time-critical and resource-limited dimensionality reduction problems. The second is to demonstrate further improvements and the application of a recently proposed time-critical sensitivity analysis method called EventTracker in indust...

What is a good measure for happiness inequality? In the context of this question, we have developed an approach in which individual happiness values in a sample are considered as elements of a set and inequality as a binary relation on that set. The total number of inequality relations, each weighed by the distance on the scale of measurement between the pair partners, has been adopted as an in...

The present study aimed to explore molecular mechanisms involved in pituitary adenomas (PAs) and to discover target genes for their treatment. The gene expression profile GSE4488 was downloaded from the Gene Expression Omnibus database. Differentially expressed genes (DEGs) were identified using the Limma package and analyzed by two‑dimensional hierarchical clustering. Gene ontology (GO) and pa...

The mucin MUC1 is typically aberrantly glycosylated by epithelial cancer cells manifested by truncated O-linked saccharides. The resultant glycopeptide epitopes can bind cell surface major histocompatibility complex (MHC) molecules and are susceptible to recognition by cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTLs), whereas aberrantly glycosylated MUC1 protein on the tumor cell surface can be bound by antibodi...

Philosophers of language have drawn on metamathematical results in varied ways. Extensionalist philosophers have been particularly impressed with two, not unrelated, facts: the existence, due to Frege/Tarski, of a certain sort of semantics, and the seeming absence of intensional contexts from mathematical discourse. The philosophical import of these facts is at best murky. Extensionalists will ...

Mild moisture stress causes sucrose to be deposited preferentially in sugarcane stalks so that sucrose yields may be improved. The rule of thumb in the industry states that a crop should be dried off for the time it would take pan evaporation to equal twice the plant available water holding capacity of the soil in which the crop is rooted (or twice TAM). Despite this useful rule farmers often d...

The peptide Ac-(cyclo-2,6)-R[KAAAD]-NH2 (cyc-RKAAAD) is a short cyclic peptide known to adopt a remarkably stable single turn α-helix in water. Due to its simplicity and the availability of thermodynamic and kinetic experimental data, cyc-RKAAAD poses as an ideal model for evaluating the aptness of current molecular dynamics (MD) simulation methodologies to accurately sample conformations that ...