Abstract The monumentalization of public space has received significant scholarly attention both globally and locally. In the South African context, this interest been further heightened by #Rhodes Must Fall campaign in 2015, which raised questions about relevance colonial statues post-transformation era. This sparked extensive debates regarding within country’s cultural landscape. Against back...

This chapter describes the origins, boundaries, and structures of collaborative geographic information systems (CGIS). A working definition is proposed, together with a discussion about the subtle collaborative vs. cooperative distinction, and culminating in a philosophical description of the research area. The literatures on planning and policy analysis, decision support systems, and geographi...

Cupin-type phosphoglucose isomerases (cPGIs) were identified in some archaeal and bacterial genomes and the respective coding function of cpgi's from the euryarchaeota Archaeoglobus fulgidus and Methanosarcina mazei, as well as the bacteria Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium and Ensifer meliloti, was proven by functional overexpression. These cPGIs and the cPGIs from Pyrococcus and Thermoc...

Phosphoglucose isomerase (PGI) is a multifunctional protein, which, inside the cell, functions as a housekeeping enzyme of glycolysis and gluconeogenesis and, outside the cell, exerts wholly unrelated cytokine properties. We have determined the structure of human PGI to a resolution of 1.6 A using X-ray crystallography. The structure is highly similar to other PGIs, especially the architecture ...

This paper presents the observations and results from the evaluation of the Program Guide Information System (PGIS), which was built as the CATCH-2004 Helsinki demonstrator under the European Union’s 5 Framework Research Programme [1]. The technical implementation is the outcome of the integration of several technologies, including Automatic Speech Recognition and Natural Language Understanding...

Compared tomost types of criminal violence, terrorismposes special data collection challenges. In response, there has been growing interest in open source terrorist event data bases. One of the major problems with these data bases in the past is that they have been limited to international events—those involving a national or group of nationals from one country attacking targets physically loca...

BACKGROUND Endothelial dysfunction is the pathophysiological characteristic of pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH). Some paracrine factors secreted by bone marrow-derived endothelial progenitor cells (BMEPCs) have the potential to strengthen endothelial integrity and function. This study investigated whether BMEPCs have the therapeutic potential to improve monocrotaline (MCT)-induced PAH via ...

The last 10 years has seen a dramatic increase in our understanding of the mechanisms underlying the pregnancy-specific adaptation in cardiovascular function in general and the dramatic changes that occur in uterine artery endothelium in particular to support the growing fetus. The importance of these changes is clear from a number of studies linking restriction of uterine blood flow (UBF) and/...