This paper examines the post-War Summer and Winter Olympic Games in order to determine the economic and political determinants of national participation, of female participation in particular, and of success at the Games (i.e., medal counts). Compared to the Summer Games, Winter participation levels are driven more by income and less by population, have less host nation bias and a greater effec...

HiperDispatch was introduced with IBM’s z10 server, and is available (via PTFs) on z/OS V1R7, z/OS V1R8, and z/OS V1R9. HiperDispatch was designed to (1) minimize the z10 hardware performance degradation caused by processor cache misses, and (2) maximize the amount of CPU processing power associated with any single logical processor. To achieve these design objectives, HiperDispatch implemented...

Rhopalosiphum padi virus (RhPV) (family Dicistroviridae; genus Cripavirus) is an icosahedral aphid virus with a 10kb positive-sense RNA genome. To study the molecular biology of RhPV, identification of a cell line that supports replication of the virus is essential. We screened nine cell lines derived from species within the Lepidoptera, Diptera and Hemiptera for susceptibility to RhPV followin...

We present a comprehensive study of the interaction of human serum albumin (HSA) with two uremic toxins, namely phenylacetic acid (PhAA) and indoxyl sulfate (IDS) in aqueous solution. The interaction of HSA with PhAA is studied for a series of salt concentrations (20–150 mM) and temperature (25, 30 and 37 C). The effect of in vitro urea modification of HSA upon its binding affinity towards the ...

In our research, new bis-α, β-unsaturated carbonyl compounds (Z2-Z4) were prepared via Claisen- Schmidt reaction, by the condensation of 2,6-dimethyl-3,5-diacetyl-1,4-dihydropyridine (Z1) with different appropriate benzaldehyde, like (benzaldehyde, m-nitro benzaldehyde and o-chloro benzaldehyde) using 10% aqueous sodium hydroxide as a base. A simple efficient method has been applied for synthes...

In this paper, we consider the weakened Hilbert’s 16th problem for symmetric planar perturbed polynomial Hamiltonian systems. In particular, a perturbed Hamiltonian polynomial vector field of degree 9 is studied, and an example of Z10-equivariant planar perturbed Hamiltonian systems is constructed. With maximal number of closed orbits, it gives rise to different configurations of limit cycles. ...

Description of a new serovar (S. IIIb 16:k:e,n,x,z15) and a new serological variant (S. IIIb 42:z10:e,n,x,z15:z60 ) belonging to the genus Salmonella isolated from stool specimens of Brazilian snakes (Crotalus durissus).