E-government readiness assessment is a significant indicator in measuring citizen satisfaction levels in using E-government services. It provides an opportunity to learn about the government's strengths and weakness on the journey to excellence. Simultaneously, the main goal of E-government is to create an optimized relationship with its citizens. This paper presents an E-Government readiness a...

These lecture notes for the 2013 CIME/CIRM summer school Combinatorial Algebraic Geometry deal with manifestly infinite-dimensional algebraic varieties with large symmetry groups. So large, in fact, that subvarieties stable under those symmetry groups are defined by finitely many orbits of equations—whence the title Noetherianity up to symmetry. It is not the purpose of these notes to give a sy...

Electronic government (E-government) readiness assessment is a relatively new concept that has been given impetus by the rapid rate of Internet penetration and advances in information and communication technologies (ICT). Over the years, various e-government readiness assessment methods have been proposed by different organizations. These methods use a wide range of indicators to assess a commu...

Inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) constitute a growing concern in western countries. They coincide with gut microbiota dysbiosis, including loss of immunomodulatory bacteria. Accordingly, probiotic products containing selected bacterial strains mitigate IBD. Selected Propionibacterium freudenreichii display promising modulatory properties and prevent colitis animal models. Dairy matrices protec...

the verge of showing the potential clinical value of embryonic stem cell research. Our research clearly shows that stem-cell-derived retinal cells can rescue visual function in animals that otherwise would have gone blind. We are hopeful that the cells will be similarly efficacious in patients. " The company hopes to start its clinical trial this spring. At a later point, the company also hopes...