A new theory of attraction and liking based on kin selection suggests that people detect genetic similarity in others in order to give preferential treatment to those who are most similar to themselves. There are many sources of empirical and theoretical support for this view, including (1) the inclusive fitness theory of altruism, (2) kin recognition studies of animals raised apart, (3) assort...

This paper presents an optimal control strategy for elevator group in large buildings. An elevator group controller allocates different elevators to up and down hall calls that coming from different floors. The control strategy is a precondition to minimize mainly the average waiting time of hall calls. In this paper, two genetic algorithms are developed to treat efficiently the elevator group ...

BACKGROUND Allosteric ribozymes (aptazymes) that have extraordinary activation parameters have been generated in vitro by design and selection. For example, hammerhead and ligase ribozymes that are activated by small organic effectors and protein effectors have been selected from random sequence pools appended to extant ribozymes. Many ribozymes, especially self-splicing introns, are known cont...

behcet's disease (bd) is a multisystemic inflammatory disease that occurs most often between the second and fourth decade of life. patients have been reported during the first months of life and after 70 years. our objective was to determine the clinical, paraclinical and genetic characteristics of bd in patients aged < 20 and > 40 years. we conducted a comparative retrospective study including...

olive cultivars with specific characteristics have been developed thanks to iran’s particular climatic conditionsand long-term olive cultivation. the genetic variation and relationships among 40 olive cultivars, as well as 17 unknown genotypes from the national olive collection orchard at tarom research station, zanjan, iran, were evaluated using ssr markers. using 10 microsatellite primer pair...