This paperreporrsa test of the endowmenteffect in an economicanalysisof localizedair pollution. Regressiontechniquesare used to test the significanceof perceivedproperty rights on householdWTP for improvedair qualityversus WTA compensationto forgo an improvementin air quality. Ourexperimentcontributesto the researchintothe WTP/WTAdivergenceby providing a new basis for supportingthe existenceof ...

We introduce a novel method for three-dimensional metamorphosis between two polyhedral objects with different topologies. The 3D objects are represented as multiple 2D images and well-understood 2D morphing techniques are used to morph between their 2D representations. The resulting 2D morphs are used to reconstruct the intermediate 3D objects. The user controls the metamorphosis by matching fe...

The predictions made for fold recognition and modeling accuracy at the 1996 Critical Assessment of Structure Prediction meeting (CASP2) were assessed to discover which groups did best. With 32 groups making a total of 369 predictions, it was necessary to use simple criteria for distinguishing between the entries. By focusing on the predictors' ability to use the sequence of the unknown target s...

A [3 + 3] modular self-assembly gives rise to the formation of basket-shaped, crown ether-functionalized, nano-sized trimetallo-macrocycles, which function as structural analogues of cyclotriveratrylenes (CTV).

background esophageal, stomach, and colorectal cancers are commonly lethal gastrointestinal tract (git) neoplasms, causing almost two million deaths worldwide each year. some environmental risk factors are acknowledged; however, genetic defects can significantly contribute to predisposition to git cancers. accordingly, recent works have shown that single-nucleotide polymorphisms (snps) within m...

introduction: attention to rural development than urban development in the third world not because of the majority of the population in rural areas, but also because it is the final solution to the problem of urban unemployment and decreasing the population density metropolis, development and improvement of the rural environment. rural tourism potentially can be considered as fundamental approa...

this study aims to design some dual-target anticancer candidates, capable to act as an alkylating agent as well as a thymidylate synthase (ts) inhibitor. the designed scaffold is a combination of nucleobase, amino acid and aziridine structures. the candidates are docked into ts and three dna double strand structures and evaluated based on their binding interaction energies and ligand efficienci...

there is undoubtedly general agreement that the efficiency of educational investments should he maximized through the managerial process as far as possible. agricultural extension is one of the crucial tasks in developing agricultural societies calling for considerable consumption of intellectual investment. the management of agricultural extension projects (aeps) however, needs careful pla...

different treatment strategies of alzheimer's disease (ad) are being studied for treating or slowing the progression of ad. many pharmaceutically important regulation systems operate through proteins as drug targets. here, we investigate the drug target proteins in beta-amyloid (aβ) injected rat hippocampus treated with lavandula angustifolia (la) by proteomics techniques. the reported stu...