 To understand the value of aligning genes and recognize the practical applications of this technique.  To gain familiarity with the use of Web-based alignment tools to explore sequence similarity and understand how to modify their parameters.  To know how the Needleman-Wunsch algorithm optimally aligns any two sequences.  Understand how the Needleman-Wunsch algorithm can be modified to yie...

Abstract The rich body of literature on the cultural legacies East Germany has privileged white German perspectives material culture at expense non-white and non-European encounters with socialist things. In shifting spatial lens to global South, foreign students workers who lived for extended periods in Germany, I trouble implicit whiteness study GDR memory. Popular identification goods beyond...

ecological footprint analysis in agriculture is a new and evolving subject. the main purpose of the study was to assess environmental sustainability of conventional and conservation tillage systems using ecological footprint analysis in hamedan province. global hectares (gha) were used to measure the ecological footprint unit. data was collected through questionnaires and use of cross-sectional...

The Moran collection, which has been catalogued over the last two years, has presented the archivist with a number of interesting problems, besides those normally associated with a collection of personal papers. The extensive collection' had been used by Professor Lovell for his biography of Lord Moran while it was still at the family homes and it was following an approach by the archivist of t...

Part I of this thesis presents a strategy for compiling distributed systems specified in IOA into Java programs running on a group of networked workstations. IOA is a formal language for describing distributed systems as I/O automata. The translation works node-by-node, translating IOA programs into Java classes that communicate using the Message Passing Interface (MPI). The resulting system ru...

Our understanding of Mercury’s sodium exosphere has improved considerably in the last 5 years thanks to new observations (Schleicher, H., Wiedemann, G., Wöhl, H., Berkefeld, T., Soltau, D. [2004]. Astron. Astrophys. 425, 1119–1124) and to the publication of a summary of the large set of ground based observations (Potter, A.E., Killen, R.M., Morgan, T.H. [2007]. Icarus 186, 571–580; Potter, A.E....

We investigate the Liouvillian integrability of Hamiltonian systems describing a universe filled with a scalar field (possibly complex). The tool used is the differential Galois group approach, as introduced by Morales-Ruiz and Ramis. The main result is that the generic systems are non-integrable, although there still exist some values of parameters for which integrability remains undecided. We...

A sequential random search method for the global minimization of a continuous function is proposed. The algorithm gradually concentrates the random search effort on areas neighboring the global minima. A modification is included for the case that the function cannot be exactly evaluated. The global convergence and the asymptotical optimality of the sequential sampling procedure are proved for b...

On Nov. 1, 2005, Lawrence Livermore Laboratories announced that "if humans continue to use fossil fuels in a business-as-usual manner for the next few centuries, the polar ice caps will be depleted, ocean sea levels will rise by seven meters and median air temperatures will soar to 14.5 degrees warmer than current day..." You might think that this would be a preamble to demanding investment by ...