JCB • VOLUME 173 • NUMBER 6 • 2006 826 Disorder for variety D isordered regions in proteins are prime real estate for alternative splicing, say Pedro Romero, Keith Dunker (Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis, IN), and colleagues fi nd that d. The innate disorder allows protein variation that in turn increases functional diversity. Both splicing and disorder are more common in mul...

It is argued that creativity might be amplified through the co-operative sharing of brain power (in contrast to Ashby’s amplification of intelligence by restricting attention to the problem). This argument is extended to the act of design (seen as the making of the new), where it is proposed that the nature of the computer is to encourage co-operative sharing because, by making perfect copies, ...

*Extension Crop Specialist, Professor of Forage Genetics and Research Associate in Forages, respectively, Department of Plant & Soil Sciences, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT 59717 Alfalfa—the most productive and most widely adapted forage species—is indeed “Queen of the Forages.” A grower’s initial decision to produce alfalfa and subsequent choice of varieties have long-term consequences...

We study two major issues in retail inventory management: (1) The optimal set of variants (the assortment problem), that is, how many and which variants should be carried by retailers; and (2) the optimal inventory policy, given a set of variants. It is well known that it is difficult to reach analytically tractable solutions solving these problems because of the randomness in the total market ...

In a language identification task, native Belgian French and native Swiss French speakers identified French from France as their own variety. However, Canadian French was not subject to this bias. Canadian and French listeners didn't claim a different variety as their own.

Chamomile serves as one of the most important medicinal plants. The most known secondary metabolites in chamomile species are volatile oils of triponoides, poly stilens, flavonoids and phenolic cafeic acid (Krori). These metabolites have wide variety of applications thanks to having medicinal properties of anti-inflammation, antispasmodic and bactericide activity. Also it is used to cure liver ...

 In order to have a sustainable management on Persian sturgeon as a highly commercial species in the South Caspian Sea, we need to identify its population structure and the level as well as its conservation status in their natural habitat. To develop a conservation program for this all Caspian Sea' sturgeon species it requires knowledge of its genetic diversity using reliable molecular marker t...