We deal with a variant of the well-known Longest Common Subsequence (LCS) problem for weighted sequences. A (biological) weighted sequence determines the probability for each symbol to occur at a given position of the sequence (such sequences are also called Position Weighted Matrices, PWM). Two possible such versions of the problem were proposed by (Amir et al., 2009 and 2010), they are called...

BACKGROUND The ability to induce flowering on demand is of significant biotechnological interest. FT protein has been recently identified as an important component of the mobile flowering hormone, florigen, whose function is conserved across the plant kingdom. We therefore focused on manipulation of both endogenous and heterologous FT genes to develop a floral induction system where flowering w...

This paper aims to understand spiritual leadership from the personal point of view, power, and authority. The central concept in this landscape is how a leader can impact people who have different attitudes, motivations, origins, personality values, beliefs, course, culture sociological-anthropological perspective. In addition looking at aspects multicultural leadership, author will also enrich...

Human tumor cell death during radiotherapy is caused mainly by ionizing radiation (IR)-induced DNA double-strand breaks (DSB), which are repaired by either homologous recombination repair (HRR) or nonhomologous end-joining (NHEJ). Although siRNA-mediated knockdown of DNA DSB repair genes can sensitize tumor cells to IR, this approach is limited by inefficiencies of gene silencing. In this study...

Guest editors Jessica Ramella-Roman, Amir H. Gandjbakhche, Stephen C. Kanick, Babak Shadgan, and Bruce J. Tromberg introduce summarize the articles included in 6-part JBO Special Section on Wearable, Implantable, Mobile, Remote Biomedical Optics Photonics.

One of the main objectives of the top asphalt layer is to provide a protective surface against water penetration and other harmful liquids such as chemicals. However, current construction equipments do not provide finished asphalt surfaces that meet this quality and therefore, allowing the intrusion of several liquids through the asphalt layers and deeper into the underlying soils. Subsequently...

Bu çalışmanın ana teması Medine Araplarından Ebû Âmir er-Râhib’in İslâm davetine muhalefetidir. Bununla bağlantılı olarak ailesi, yaşadığı yerler, dinî inancı, Medine, Mekke ve Şam’da karşıtı faaliyetleri ele alınmıştır. Siyer, tarihi veya diğer kaynaklarda geçen haberlerde Medine’de Hz. Peygamber’e muhalefet edenler hakkında ekseriyetle Yahudi kabileler Abdullah b. Übey Selûl önderliğindeki mü...

Nonhomeomorphic compact Hausdorff spaces X and Y and an isomorphism : C(X) -> C(Y) (onto) are constructed such that ||c/>|| \4>~ || = 2. Amir had asked if such a d> exists with || \\ ||cf> || < 3.