Rural businesses often face substantial hurdles in participating in today’s economy. Many rural businesses are small and find it difficult to marshal the resources needed to compete in the new digital economy. And remoteness often hinders many rural businesses as they try to gain access to the capital, infrastructure, and technology needed to operate in today’s global and instantaneous marketpl...

Bacterial plant pathogens rely on a battalion of transcription factors to fine-tune their response to changing environmental conditions and to marshal the genetic resources required for successful pathogenesis. Prediction of transcription factor binding sites (TFBS) represents an important tool for elucidating regulatory networks and has been conducted in multiple genera of plant-pathogenic bac...

Recent advances in Internet connectivity and implementations of safer distributed computing through languages such as Java provide the foundation for transforming computing resources into tradable commodities. We have developed Javelin, a Java-based prototype of a globally distributed, heterogeneous, high-performance computational infrastructure that conveniently enables rapid execution of mass...

Identifying the processes by which people remember to execute an intention at an appropriate moment (prospective memory) remains a fundamental theoretical challenge. According to one account, top-down attentional control is required to maintain activation of the intention, initiate intention retrieval, or support monitoring. A diverging account suggests that bottom-up, spontaneous retrieval can...

Mariano Bonet: The fi rst is the leading role that governments must play in stemming the NCD pandemic—the importance of political will—because turning back the tide isn’t only just a problem for the health sector, health ministries, or health professionals. Its magnitude and the fact that chronic disease risk factors are inextricably linked with all aspects of people’s lives means that governme...

Helping organizations to marshal, analyze, discuss, and act on all of the available information about a situation playing out over space and time is a critical problem. GeoWorlds (http://www.isi.edu/geoworlds) is a componentbased information management system that addresses this issue. It brings together with information analysis, retrieval and collaboration tools and integrates digital library...

Abstract This article aims to shed light on what lies at the heart of skepticism towards counterfactual, alternative, or what-if history. On its face, counterfactual history gives historians and philosophers good reason worry. First, because pasts leave no traces, lack an important source empirical warrant. Second, rewriting historical events might unpredictably change past, inferences about ha...

Recently, the exhaustion of new aggregates and rising price " raw materials" have caused increasing exploitation "reclaimed asphalt pavement "(RAP) in construction rehabilitation. It is being reported that usage RAP does not only reduce cost projects due to less consumption aggregate but also saves land resources greatly protects environment, Where same materials used original highway system ca...

The research is to assess the level of public awareness of civil rights in the province of North Khorasan. The sample survey of 384 residents in North Khorasan Province was asked. Framework using comments of Parsons, and Turner was explained by Hambermas and Marshal. This study investigated the hypothesis (the public sector, education and age) there is a positive correlation among them, but the...