We present the BIBLIMOS project, which aims to address the Western Saharan culture and history, by considering both local ancient Arabic manuscripts and European colonial archives. We describe the project’s context and objectives before focusing on ancient Mauritanian manuscripts, the content of which covers many scientific fields. We assess the current state of such ancient manuscripts’ digita...

The present study has examined the similarity and the mutual intelligibility between Amharic and two Tigrigna varities using three tools; namely Levenshtein distance, intelligibility test and questionnaires. The study has shown that both Tigrigna varieties have almost equal phonetic and lexical distances from Amharic. The study also indicated that Amharic speakers understand less than 50% of th...

Article History The paper received on: 16/07/2014 Accepted after peer-review on: 05/08/2014 Published on: 01/09/2014 This study tackles the challenges of translating poem composed in colloquial Egyptian Arabic (CEA) into English. It applies Halliday’s concept of register on a CEA poem and its translation to determine the different varieties used in the original and how far they are maintained i...

Ever since its emergence in 1984, the field of ancient DNA has struggled to overcome the challenges related to the decay of DNA molecules in the fossil record. With the recent development of high-throughput DNA sequencing technologies and molecular techniques tailored to ultra-damaged templates, it has now come of age, merging together approaches in phylogenomics, population genomics, epigenomi...

We generalize Kedlaya and Umans’ modular composition algorithm to the multivariate case. As a main application, we give fast algorithms for many operations involving triangular sets (over a finite field), such as modular multiplication, inversion, or change of order. For the first time, we are able to exhibit running times for these operations that are almost linear, without any overhead expone...

*Corresponding author: Dr. Sudhakar Akulapalli, Assistant Professor/ Staff Scientist II, Creighton University School of Medicine and University of Nebraska Medical Center, Director & Coordinator: Cell Signaling and Tumor Angiogenesis Laboratory, Boys Town National Research Hospital, 555 N, 30th Street, Omaha NE 68131 USA, Tel: # (402) 4986681; Fax: (402) 498-6331; E-mail: akulapallis@boystown.org

1454 longer to eat their first meal than controls did and then, for the next 6 hours, ate less at each meal. As the team reported in September in the American Journal of Physiology, monkeys receiving the peptide also held food in their stomachs longer than controls did, which may explain, in part, why subsequent appetite diminished. Still, Tschoëp and Moran point out, and Bloom concedes, no stu...

Humans have been colonized by Helicobacter pylori for at least 50,000 years and probably throughout their evolution. H. pylori has adapted to humans, colonizing children and persisting throughout life. Most strains possess factors that subtly modulate the host environment, increasing the risk of peptic ulceration, gastric adenocarcinoma, and possibly other diseases. H. pylori genes encoding the...

This brief review provides a summary of the biological causes of genetic association between tightly linked markers--termed linkage disequilibrium--and unlinked markers--termed population structure. We also review the utility of linkage disequilibrium data in gene mapping in isolated populations, in the estimation of recombination rates and in studying the history of particular alleles, includi...