A comparative analysis of protein kinases encoded in the human genome and those of the closest evolutionary relatives such as chimpanzee, gorilla and orangutan is made in the present study. Sequence comparisons of humans with their closest lineages are of considerable interest in order to understand the ambulatory mechanism behind the evolutionary relationship of apes. A total of 499, 478, 468 ...

BACKGROUND The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) publishes the Prohibited List, a manually compiled international standard of substances and methods prohibited in-competition, out-of-competition and in particular sports. It would be ideal to be able to identify all substances that have one or more performance-enhancing pharmacological actions in an automated, fast and cost effective way. Here, we...

 Active networking aims at transforming passive data carriers to active, dynamically configurable machines that no only pass data to each other but also perform computation on those data. In such a framework mobile agents can help either as carriers of the active code to be installed on active nodes or even as actors by managing the node autonomously. This paper explores the applicability of t...

To explain the links between population distribution and economic integration, we construct a spatial economics model with endogenous fertility. A higher population concentration increases real wages and child-raising costs, thus lowering the fertility rate. However, people migrate to more populated regions to obtain higher real wages. We show that mobility across regions results in more people...

INTRODUCTION Salmonella is a ubiquitous pathogen that can infect host species, like wild birds, rodents, and/or arthropods, which may transmit infection to domestic animals and human population. AIM In order to assess the related risk, a cross-sectional study was performed on 1114 carcasses of wild animals from a north-eastern area of the Emilia-Romagna Region, Italy. MATERIALS AND METHODS ...

Molecular dynamics are essential for protein function. In some cases these dynamics involve the interconversion between ground state, highly populated conformers and less populated higher energy structures ('excited states') that play critical roles in biochemical processes. Here we describe recent advances in NMR spectroscopy methods that enable studies of these otherwise invisible excited sta...

the purpose of this research is to study domestic violence against women in the city of tehran, the results of which may be generalized to all cities in iran due to tehran’s population diversity. having defined certain terms and theories, the writers have presented hypotheses, which have been tested in a field study on a statistical universe of 100 housewives, selected randomly from various are...