SNAP Benefits: Can an Adequate Benefit Be Defined?

Knowing Afghanistan: Can there be an end to the saga?

War on terrorism, as the motto which formed the cornerstone of global policies of former     neo-conservative administration of the United States, is increasingly becoming ineffective in Afghanistan with the dreaded consequence of spilling over into Pakistan. This inevitable consequence of War on    Terrorism in Afghanistan has brought the West face to face with the ‘nest of terrorism’ that CIA...

Well-Defined NRC Queries Can Be Typed

We study the expressive power of the static type system of the Nested Relational Calculus NRC and show that on so-called homogeneous input and output types, the NRC type system is expressively complete: every untyped but homogeneously well-defined NRC expression can be equivalently expressed by a well-typed expression. The NRC static type system hence does not limit the expressive power of the ...

AdipoRon may be benefit for atherosclerosis prevention

Atherosclerosis has serious role in coronary arteries disease,so it is important to establish effective strategies for prevention or even treatment of atherosclerosis. Adiponectin, as one of the most abundant adipokines, has insulin sensitivity, anti-inflammatory and anti-atherogenic properties. Disturbed adiponectin actions through its receptor, (AdipoR1 and AdipoR2) may be involved in atheros...

How many atoms can be defined by boxes

, We study the function b(n, d), the maximal number of atoms defined by n d-dimensional boxes, i.e. parallelepipeds in the d-dimensional Euclidean space with sides parallel to the coordinate axes. We characterize extremal interval families defining b (n, 1) = 2n -1 atoms and we show that b(n, 2)=2n2 -6n+ 7. We prove that for every d, d b* (d)= lim b(n, d)jnd exists and 1 ~(d/2) Jl b* (d) "§.e. ...

The complexity of life: can life be simply defined?