present data showing that the regulator of the A-factor cascade in Streptomyces griseus , AdpA, possesses related family members, and they determine both the sites to which AdpA binds and a consensus DNA-binding sequence. Sequence homologues and consensus DNA binding sites of regulatory proteins were first reported more than 20 years ago, so why is this new work notewor-thy? The answer is that ...

Origins are proposed for certain well-known traditions at the Marktoberdorf advanced courses in programming methodology. The evolution of these traditions, over the years, is also discussed.

Nepal is a small developing mountainous country in South Asia. A variety of ethnic, cultural and religious groups inhabit Nepal. Traditional healthcare providers can be divided into medical providers and faith healers. Ayurveda, an ancient system of medicine is based on the tridosha theory of disease. Ayurvedic medicine is inherent to Nepal and was strongly encouraged in the medieval period of ...

in this paper we obtain a necessary and a sufficient condition for the set of ω_0-nearest points ( ω_0-farthest points) to be non-empty or a singleton set in normed linear spaces. we shall find a necessary and a sufficient condition for an uniquely remotal set to be a singleton set.

The formulation of strong and weak laws of large numbers for fuzzy random variables based on variance is given. The concept of the variance of fuzzy random variables, introduced by K1 orner (Fuzzy Sets and Systems 92 (1997) 83) and by Feng (Fuzzy Sets and Systems 120 (2001) 487) demonstrates its e2ciency. c © 2002 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.

In this note, we show by counterexamples that some results of Qiu and colleagues [On the restudy of fuzzy complex analysis: Part I. The sequence and series of fuzzy complex numbers and their convergences, Fuzzy Sets and Systems 115 (2000) 445–450; On the restudy of fuzzy complex analysis: Part II. The continuity and differentiation of fuzzy complex functions, Fuzzy Sets and Systems 120 (2001) 5...

The aim of this paper is to point out and correct some errors of two theorems for IFSs in Atanassov (Two theorems for intuitionistic fuzzy sets, Fuzzy Sets and Systems, 2000) and bring forward a new theorem for IFSs. In the end, some elementary, but non-standard equalities between IFSs were formulated.

Using mid-infrared and radio criteria, we select a sample of candidate z ∼ 2 obscured quasars. Optical spectroscopy confirms about half of these as type-2 quasars, and modelling the population suggests 50-80% of the quasars are obscured. We find some flat radio spectrum type-2 quasars, and tentative evidence for obscuration unrelated to the torus. Using a similar sample, we also find evidence f...

Orthodoxy, and other so-called world religions that were complicit with colonialist expansion and its repression of the “other peoples” (indigenous), their rites and beliefs. For centuries, colonial societies have denied that indigenous peoples had “religions” at all; as the great photographer of Native North American cultures Edward S. Curtis stated, “There seems to be a broadly prevalent idea...