In seeking to explain the persistence of informal economy – defined as set economic activities that are illegal yet legitimate some large groups scholars often focus on instrumental factors; in doing so, role morality is overlooked. response, we conduct a qualitative study Pakistani counterfeit bazaars, understand how market participants construct moral legitimacy way justifies participation in...

The gradual development of SYSTEMS of typed symbols for describing chemical structures and substrunures (radicals) is traced from its beginning in 1787. Such symbols are emphasized because *computers are symbol processors par excellence." Computers are the central tools of the Information Age, but future trends in the management of chemical structure information are likely to reflect deeply roo...

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of death and disability in the United States and in most industrialized nations. Major breakthroughs to modern day cardiovascular/lipid research have been attributed to the findings of the Framingham Heart Study and Gofman and colleagues who made associations between lipoprotein levels (LDL, VLDL and HDL) and CVD. Unfortunately, half of all CVD ...

Catalysis as a scientific discipline originated in the early part of the last century. Earlier, the unique feature of a catalytic substance, namely that when added in small quantities to a reaction it affects its rate and selectivity but is not consumed, had become widely recognized, and many applications had been developed. Only after chemical thermodynamics had been defined did a rational app...

This paper addresses—to our knowledge, for the first time—the problem of querying a geosensor network—a sensor network of mobile, locationaware nodes—for historical data. It compares different network architectures and querying strategies with respect to their performance in reconstructing events or processes that happened in the past, trying to support the hypothesis that reconstruction is pos...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Aflatoxins are mycotoxins produced by Aspergillus flavus and Aspergillus parasiticus that can contaminate human and animal foods, including corn, wheat, rice, peanuts, and many other crops resulting in the illness or death of human and animal consumers. The aim of this study was to detect aflatoxin B1, B2, G1, G2 and total aflatoxin in Kashkineh, a traditional Iranian ...