Most non-long terminal repeat (non-LTR) retrotransposons encoding a restriction-like endonuclease show target-specific integration into repetitive sequences such as ribosomal RNA genes and microsatellites. However, only a few target-specific lineages of non-LTR retrotransposons are distributed widely and no lineage is found across the eukaryotic kingdoms. Here we report the most widely distribu...

The topography associated with the fundamental crustal dichotomy in much of eastern Mars can be largely ascribed to a single event: the very large impact which produced the Utopia Basin. Subsequent internal and surficial processes have been unable to remove the topographic signature of this basin. In particular, endogenic processes appear to have been ineffective in contributing to the basic di...

In a workshop entitled "Utopia and politics" at the fifth World Social Forum (WSF) in Porto Alegre, Nobel Laureate José Saramago squared off with famed Uruguayan author Eduardo Galeano. While Galeano celebrated the "utopian impulse", Saramago said: I consider the concept of utopia worse than useless....What has transformed the world is not utopia, but need....The only time and place where our w...

Utopian thoughts have precedence as old as human history. Islamic civilization utopian thought owes its progress to the Farabi&rsquos utopian concept and expansion and academic study of utopian term in west owes to the Thomas More Utopia book. Theoretically, Farabi&rsquos utopian thoughts influenced development of utopian system in both Islam and Western civilizations. By emphasis on Farabi&rsq...

â â â â â  features of gibranian utopia in his literary works â  â sardar aslani * â  â abstractâ  every thinker and man of letters who pursues a goal in his or her works has a utopia. after introducing utopia by plato, farabi and st. augustine, gibran khalil gibran established the foundations of his own particular utopia. the features of his utopia are as follows: 1) freedom 2) kindness 3) jus...

By using the UTOPIA-project as an example, this paper highlights the role of the Nordic labor movement in technological change and underlines that there are different incentives for technological change. While corporations developing technology usually pursued increased efficiency in production, the UTOPIA-project aimed at other, alternative goals such as translating social values regarding job...

Introduction. The NASA Mars Exploration Rover (MER) Project is considering a landing-site ellipse designated EP78B2 in southeastern Utopia Planitia, southwest of Elysium Mons. This ellipse is centered at 11.73N, 123.96E (planetocentric coordinates) and is 155 km long and 16 km wide, has its major axis oriented N86W, and covers ~1640 km 2. The site appears to be relatively safe for a MER landing...

Introduction: In recent years, a number of researchers have recognized signs of past glacial activity on Mars and features that could be extant rock glaciers [1,2]. There has also been the recognition of " pasted on " terrains which are interpreted as dust-covered snow or ice deposits [3]. Many of these features are attributed to relatively recent (within the last several million years) periods...

the knowledge of Utopia u3 has become in the course of abstract ly p lann ing backwards. Now it seems possible that w3 m i g h t be r. So create a new hypothesis h. The above solution can be varlabalized using procedural abstraction [I lewitt 1971; Sussman 1973] into a procedure as follows

This chapter presents an analysis of the ambitions that lie behind the concept of Ambient Intelligence as it is presented by the advocates and researchers working in the field. In particular it looks at the ideas regarding the forms of natural and intuitive forms of interaction that are envisaged including agents and robots from a philosophical perspective. The views on interaction are analysed...