Improving on work by Schild, De Giacomo and Lenzerini, we establish a tight connection between description logics and hybrid logics, and use this to transfer results on complexity and expressive power from one to the other.

zerumbone is a cytotoxic compound isolated from the herbal plant, zingiber zerumbet smith, which exhibits antitumor activity [1-2], anti-inflammatory effects and possesses anti-proliferative potentials in a variety of cell lines [3-4]. dna fragmentation indicates an early event of apoptosis leading to cell death due to the absence of new cellular proteins synthesizing for cell survival. previou...

BACKGROUND The Transtheoretical Model suggests that individuals vary according to their readiness to change behavior. Previous work in smoking cessation and other health areas suggests that interventions are more successful when they are tailored to an individual's stage of change with regards to the specific behavior. We report on the performance of a single-item measure ("Ladder") to assess t...

In virology, many pathogenic viruses can induce DNA damage and can cause mutagenesis. Here, the author would like to discuss on swine fl u virus, a novel H1N1 infl uenza virus that causes worldwide emerging viral infection at present. As a viral infection, the induction of DNA damage might be expected in the case of swine fl u. Indeed, several viruses can cause DNA damage and this might lead to...

The Munich chain-ladder method for claims reserving was introduced by Quarg and Mack on an axiomatic basis. We analyze these axioms, and we define a modified Munich chain-ladder method which is based on an explicit stochastic model. This stochastic model then allows us to consider claims prediction and prediction uncertainty for the Munich chain-ladder method in a consistent way.

Let G be a subdivision of a ladder graph. In this paper we study magic evaluation with type (1, 1, 1) for a given any general ladder graph G. We prove that subdivided ladder admits magic evaluation having type (1, 1, 1). We also prove such a subdivision admits consecutive magic evaluation having type (1, 1, 0). AMS (MOS) Subject Classification Codes: 05C78

The herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) latency associated transcript (LAT) gene's anti-apoptosis activity plays a central, but not fully elucidated, role in enhancing the virus's reactivation phenotype. In transient transfection experiments, LAT increases cell survival following an apoptotic insult in the absence of other HSV-1 genes. However, the high background of untransfected cells has mad...