Trafficking natural objects and trafficking cultural objects have been treated separately both in regulatory policy and in criminological discussion. The former is generally taken to be 'wildlife crime' while the latter has come to be considered under the auspices of a debate on 'illicit art and antiquities'. In this article we study the narrative discourse of high-end collectors of orchids and...

Machine learning (ML) and Deep Learning (DL) methods are being adopted rapidly, especially in computer network security, such as fraud detection, anomaly intrusion much more. However, the lack of transparency ML DL based models is a major obstacle to their implementation criticized due its black-box nature, even with tremendous results. Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) promising area t...

Narrative intelligence is the use of narrative to make sense of the world and to communicate with other people. The generation of stories involving social and cultural situations (eating at a restaurant, going on a date, etc.) requires an extensive amount of experiential knowledge. While this knowledge can be encoded in the form of scripts, schemas, or frames, the manual authoring of these know...

INTRODUCTION Cleft lips and cleft palates are common congenital abnormalities in children. Various chromosomal loci have been suggested to be responsible the development of these abnormalities. The present study was carried out to investigate the association between the suspected genes (methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase [MTHFR] A1298C and C677T) that might contribute into the etiology of thes...