The ferric uptake regulation (fur) gene product participates in regulating expression of the manganeseand iron-containing superoxide dismutase genes of Escherichia coli. Examination of ,-galactosidase activity coded from a chromosomal d(sodA'-'lacZ) fusion suggests that metallated Fur protein acts as a transcriptional repressor of sodA (manganese superoxide dismutase [MnSOD]). Gel retardation a...

OBJECTIVE We determined associations between diet soda consumption and risk of incident metabolic syndrome, its components, and type 2 diabetes in the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS Diet soda consumption was assessed by food frequency questionnaire at baseline (2000-2002). Incident type 2 diabetes was identified at three follow-up examinations (2002-2003, 2...

We present the Smart Object, Dumb Archive (SODA) model for digital libraries (DLs). The SODA model transfers functionality traditionally associated with archives to the archived objects themselves. We are exploiting this shift of responsibility to facilitate other DL goals, such as interoperability, object intelligence and mobility, and heterogeneity. Objects in a SODA DL negotiate presentation...

We demonstrate SODA (Service Oriented Domain Adaptation) for efficient and scalable cross-domain microblog categorization which works on the principle of transfer learning. It is developed on a novel similarity-based iterative domain adaptation algorithm while extended with features such as active learning and interactive GUI to be used by business professionals. SODA demonstrates efficient cla...

Abstract In this paper, Markov chain and dynamic programming were used to represent a suitable pattern for tax relief and tax evasion decrease based on tax earnings in Iran from 2005 to 2009. Results, by applying this model, showed that tax evasion were 6714 billion Rials**. With 4% relief to tax payers and by calculating present value of the received tax, it was reduced to 3108 billion Rials. ...

BACKGROUND Bread is a valuable source of proteins, minerals and calories. Baking soda prevents the absorption and digestion of bread and more salt used in production of bread also causes different diseases. This study was conducted to determine the amount of soda and salt in bakeries. METHOD Cross-sectional descriptive study was carried out on 50 bakeries district during 2009. 400 samples wer...

This paper presents a system that generates web documents (courses, presentations or articles) enriched with interactive simulations and other hypermedia elements. Simulations are described using an object oriented continuous simulation language called OOCSMP. This language is complemented by two higher language layers (SODA-1L and SODA-2L). SODA-1L describes pages or slides, while SODA-2L buil...

the taxpayers’ rights must be considered the most important portion of tax laws by tax organization subject to all broad powers and authorities; the thing that has been widely noted in our modern world taking the human and citizenship rights into special consideration by taxation system of developed countries. they also applied various methods to illustrate and execute them in their tax laws. i...