Jason Nickerson and Amir Attaran examine the vast inequities in medical pain relief around the world and argue that the global control of licit narcotics be shifted from the International Narcotic Control Board to WHO.

We deal with a variant of the well-known Longest Common Subsequence (LCS) problem for weighted sequences. A (biological) weighted sequence determines the probability for each symbol to occur at a given position of the sequence (such sequences are also called Position Weighted Matrices, PWM). Two possible such versions of the problem were proposed by (Amir et al., 2009 and 2010), they are called...

BACKGROUND The ability to induce flowering on demand is of significant biotechnological interest. FT protein has been recently identified as an important component of the mobile flowering hormone, florigen, whose function is conserved across the plant kingdom. We therefore focused on manipulation of both endogenous and heterologous FT genes to develop a floral induction system where flowering w...

Human tumor cell death during radiotherapy is caused mainly by ionizing radiation (IR)-induced DNA double-strand breaks (DSB), which are repaired by either homologous recombination repair (HRR) or nonhomologous end-joining (NHEJ). Although siRNA-mediated knockdown of DNA DSB repair genes can sensitize tumor cells to IR, this approach is limited by inefficiencies of gene silencing. In this study...

One of the main objectives of the top asphalt layer is to provide a protective surface against water penetration and other harmful liquids such as chemicals. However, current construction equipments do not provide finished asphalt surfaces that meet this quality and therefore, allowing the intrusion of several liquids through the asphalt layers and deeper into the underlying soils. Subsequently...

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Francisco Palacios-Quiñonero 1,*, Josep Rubió-Massegú 1, Josep Maria Rossell 1 and Hamid Reza Karimi 2 1 Department of Mathematics, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Av. Bases de Manresa 61–73, 08242 Manresa, Barcelona, Spain; [email protected] (J.R.-M.); [email protected] (J.M.R.) 2 Politecnico di Milano, Department of Mechanical Engineering, via La Masa 1, 20156 Milan, Italy; ...