An examination of 51 mRNA sequences in GenBank has revealed that calculated mRNA folding is more stable than expected by chance. Free energy minimization calculations of native mRNA sequences are more negative than randomized mRNA sequences with the same base composition and length. Randomization of the coding region of genes yields folding free energies of less negative magnitude than the orig...

The structures of non-human antibodies are largely unstudied despite the potential for the identification of alternative structural motifs and physical properties that will benefit a basic understanding of protein and immune system evolution as well as highlight unexplored motifs to improve therapeutic monoclonal antibody. Here we probe the structure and receptor-binding properties of the mouse...

this paper examines the political-economy and cultural dynamics and discourses underlying the emergence of the Palestinian Hamas and the Algerian Islamic Salvation Front. Both movements emerged in the late 1980s as responses to continuing (neo) colonial conditions in their countries. I explore to what extent the various processes commonly referred to as “globalization,” both the world-wide econ...

In this article, we consider a semilinear elliptic equations of the form ∆u + f(u) = 0, where f is a concave function. We prove for arbitrary dimensions that there is no solution bounded in (0, 1). The significance of this result in probability theory is also discussed.

The European Standards Committee on Oxidative DNA Damage (ESCODD) recommended the use of the lesion-specific repair enzyme, formamidopyrimidine DNA-glycosylase (FPG) in the comet assay to detect oxidative DNA damage. In the present study, FPG was compared with endonuclease III (ENDOIII) and human 8-hydroxyguanine DNA-glycosylase (hOGG1) for the ability to modify the sensitivity of the comet ass...

G rowth, the paradigm marker of wellbeing in childhood, can be difficult to assess in the first two weeks of life. Some loss of weight is usual in the first few days, and distinguishing this from pathological weight loss can be difficult. Most paediatricians and midwives would become concerned if a baby lost greater than 10% of birth weight or, had failed to regain birth weight by 10 days of ag...

the aim of this paper is to classify the finite simple groups with the number of zeros at most seven greater than the number of nonlinear irreducible characters in the character tables. we find that they are exactly a$_{5}$, l$_{2}(7)$ and a$_{6}$.

Frequency-dependent loss and dispersion are typically modeled with a power-law attenuation coefficient, where the power-law exponent ranges from 0 to 2. To facilitate analytical solution, a fractional partial differential equation is derived that exactly describes power-law attenuation and the Szabo wave equation ["Time domain wave-equations for lossy media obeying a frequency power-law," J. Ac...