1. Introduction Family shuffling, which generates chimeric progeny genes by recombining a set of naturally occurring homologous genes, is an extremely powerful approach for in vitro protein evolution. In comparison with other in vitro protein evolution methods, family shuffling has the advantage of sampling a larger portion of the sequence space that has been proven functionally rich by nature....

Agents and endowments. There is a representative household and a government. For expositional purposes, the representative household is split into a ‘worker’ and a ‘shopper’. The worker receives a stochastic endowment yt(s ) of a single non-storable good. The household is prohibited from directly consuming its own endowment. Instead, the worker sells the endowment for money which is used by the...

We examine a large dialog corpus obtained from the conversation history of single individual with 104 partners. The consists half million instant messages, across several messaging platforms. focus our analyses on seven speaker attributes, each which partitions set speakers, namely: gender; relative age; family member; romantic partner; classmate; co-worker; and native to same country. In addit...

OBJECTIVE We have undertaken a multi-phase, multi-method program of research to develop, implement, and evaluate a comprehensive hospital-based nurse examiner elder abuse intervention that addresses the complex functional, social, forensic, and medical needs of older women and men. In this study, we determined the importance of possible participating professionals and respective roles and respo...

We investigated worker policing by egg eating in the ponerine ant Pachycondyla inversa, a species with morphologically distinct queens and workers. Colonies were split into one half with the queen and one half without. Workers in queenless colony fragments started laying unfertilized male eggs after three weeks. Worker-laid eggs and queen-laid eggs were introduced into five other queenright col...

In this note I would like to approach the question posed in the title, and in the literature, from a purely consequentialist perspective. In other words, I want to ask, would treating extreme poverty as a violation of human rights actually lead to a reduction in poverty, or at least lead to the conditions which would in turn lead to a reduction in poverty? This is not to minimize or deny the im...

The resolution of social conflict in colonies may accord with the interests of the most numerous party. In social insect colonies with single once-mated queens, workers are more closely related to the workers' sons than they are to the queens' sons. Therefore, they should prefer workers to produce males, against the queen's interests. Workers are capable of producing males as they arise from un...