Mobile Ad hoc Networks (MANETs) are autonomous mobile node systems connected by wireless links. A node operates as an end system and as a router, to forward packets. MANET routing is challenging and has received tremendous attention from researchers. Dynamic Source Routing (DSR) protocol was accepted as a dominant routing protocol for MANETs. Performance analysis and results show that DSR as an...

Grapevine is one of the most cultivated fruit crop worldwide with Vitis vinifera being the species with the highest economical importance. Being highly susceptible to fungal pathogens and increasingly affected by environmental factors, it has become an important agricultural research area, where gene expression analysis plays a fundamental role. Quantitative reverse transcription polymerase cha...

This paper concerns the discretization on general 3D meshes of multiphase compositional Darcy flows in heterogeneous anisotropic porous media. Extending Coats’ formulation [15] to an arbitrary number of phases, the model accounts for the coupling of the mass balance of each component with the pore volume conservation and the thermodynamical equilibrium, and dynamically manages phase appearance ...

In this study, we investigate interdependences between entry into a marital union, childbearing, and migration. We apply event-history techniques to retrospective data on women aged 18-29 from a survey conducted in northern Kyrgyzstan in 2005 to examine how these events can influence one another, with a special focus on the effects of duration of exposure. In our analysis, we account for severa...

Vol. XLIII (February 2006), 39–58 39 © 2006, American Marketing Association ISSN: 0022-2437 (print), 1547-7193 (electronic) *Ran Kivetz is Sidney Taurel Associate Professor of Business (e-mail: [email protected]), and Oleg Urminsky is a doctoral candidate (e-mail: [email protected]), Graduate School of Business, Columbia University. Yuhuang Zheng is Assistant Professor of Marketing, Graduate S...

The tetracycline antiporter TetA(B) is a member of the Major Facilitator Superfamily which confers tetracycline resistance to cells by coupling the efflux of tetracycline to the influx of protons down their chemical potential gradient. Although it is a medically important transporter, its structure has yet to be determined. One possibility for why this has proven difficult is that the transport...

Relevance. For a more complete realization of the biological potential inherent in culture and directly each variety, agrotechnology used, separate elements are used that contribute to effective plant development. This should include use preparations not only able stimulate regulate growth development plants, but also safe for environment. In this regard, research results presented paper releva...