DEDICATION To my parents, who always encouraged me to chase my dreams EPIGRAPH History suggests that the road to a firm research consensus is extraordinarily arduous-Thomas S. Kuhn vi ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I thank my advisor, Betsy Dumont, for her patient guidance and sage mentoring during the course of my dissertation. She has provided an enriching intellectual environment, and I owe much of my aca...

Over the past decade, the Internet has helped spawn a new movement in digital music. It is not academically based, and for the most part the composers involved are self-taught. Music journalists occupy themselves inventing names for it, and some have already taken root: glitch, microwave, DSP, sinecore, and microscopic music. These names evolved through a collection of deconstructive audio and ...

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an inferior hand of genes. Fetuses are today commonly screened for genetic disorders and this service will no doubt expand. An American company has devised a one-inch chip carrying 400,000 DNA fragments, which will allow the entire human genome to be screened for an average of four alleles per gene. The difference between eliminating the undesirable and promoting the advantageous is becoming to...

Having recently given, and published in Third Text referee journal Online, a series of articles on mask, class carnival, I was invited to write text accompany an exhibition relating masks. Mask, Masque, Masc group hosted online between 14 31 May 2020. It curated by Marc Hulson, Alessandra Falbo Rolina E. Blok, Five Years Darling Pearls & Co at Platforms Project Net 2020 (see: http://www.fiv...

Many enzymes in intermediary metabolism manifest saturation kinetics in which flux is a concave function of enzyme activity and often of the MichaelisMenten form. The result is that, when natural selection favors increased enzyme activity so as to maximize flux, a point of diminishing returns will be attained in which any increase in flux results in a disproportionately small increase in fitnes...

Qualitative research is only one of the methods that are appropriate for our journal, but over the past several years we at AMJ have worked diligently to increase the number and quality of the qualitative research papers we review and publish. Just this year, one of our qualitative papers won the award “Best Paper in Organizational Behavior” from the OB Division of the Academy of Management (Ma...

Keywords--Fuzzy numbers, Convexity, Preinvexity, Generalized convexity, Fuzzy mappings. 1. I N T R O D U C T I O N Let R n deno te t he n -d imens iona l Euc l idean space. T h e suppor t , supp (p), of a fuzzy set # : R n ~ I = [0, 1] is def ined as s u p p ( # ) = { x e R n ] # ( x ) > 0} . A fuzzy set # : R n ~ I is cal led fuzzy convex if i t is quas i concave in c o m m o n sense on its su...

iran central plateau is considered to be historically important due to the remained religious, historical, and cultural locations survived from ages ago. abarkuh, as one of the towns in yazd province, and the one which is 140 kilometers far from the center of the province, is considered to be historically important. moreover, this city is geographically related to esfahan and shiraz. since this...

Summary: Genomic datasets are often interpreted in the context of large-scale reference databases. One approach is to identify significantly overlapping gene sets, which works well for gene-centric data. However, many types of high-throughput data are based on genomic regions. Locus Overlap Analysis (LOLA) provides easy and automatable enrichment analysis for genomic region sets, thus facilitat...