1 Introduction 324 2 Data and methods 335 2.1 Grouping causes of death 335 2.2 Hierarchical cluster analysis 336 2.2.1 Period-specific geographical patterns 338 2.2.2 Timescale overall geographical patterns 339 3 To each period its own geographical pattern of causes of death

Peak lists derived from nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectra are commonly used as input data for a variety of computer assisted and automated analyses. These include automated protein resonance assignment and protein structure calculation software tools. Prior to these analyses, peak lists must be aligned to each other and sets of related peaks must be grouped based on common chemical shift...

Index structures for multiple sets can be classified into those that group entries according to their key values and those that group entries according to their set membership. The former are particularly suited for exact match queries on all indexed sets, the latter especially support range queries on a small number of all indexed sets. The goal is to thoroughly evaluate the performance of bot...

BACKGROUND Departures from power law group size frequency distributions have been proposed as a useful tool to link individual behavior with population patterns and dynamics, although examples are scarce for wild animal populations. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS We studied a population of Lesser kestrels (Falco naumanni) breeding in groups (colonies) from one to ca. 40 breeding pairs in 10,0...

This empirical study focuses on the impact of an information technology (IT), specifically electronic mail (e-mail), on three basic organization components: structure, people, and tasks. An Organizational Interaction Diamond (OID) model is developed illustrating how each component enables changes in other components interacting with the organization’s internal and external environments. The org...

Massively Multiplayer Games (MMGs) is an attractive example of virtual environment applications on the Internet. In such application, a great deal of update messages will be introduced, and thus consume a large amount of network bandwidth and multicast addresses. Interest Management (IM) is a mechanism provided for diminishing the redundant communication traffics. In this paper, based on the we...

the ideal order which is based on the unity of islamic nation is basically opposedto present geographical order that is based on the traditional and westfally order. itseems that basic dishormony of islam ideological order can be analayzed withwestfally, in the following dimension: isalm concentrates on the ideologicalborders, the national branch base and the rejecting the national gevernment.a...