How do individuals of Asian descent in the United States identify themselves in ethnic terms and why? In this study, we map the contours of ethnic self identities among adults in this immigrant community of color and explain their identity preferences with a new and large-scale survey that collects public opinion from randomly selected individuals of the six largest Asian American descents who ...

Bacteriocin-producing (Bac⁺) lactic acid bacteria (LAB) were isolated from a variety of food products and animal sources. Samples were enriched in de Man, Rogosa, and Sharpe (MRS) Lactocilli broth and plated onto MRS agar plates using a "sandwich overlay" technique. Inhibitory activity was detected by the "deferred antagonism" indicator overlay method using Listeria monocytogenes as the primary...

ferdowsi's shahnameh is the document of our national and religious identity and analyzing its structural and conceptual dimensions and particularly studying it comparatively with other religious and mythological texts seems to be necessary in order to achieve greater understanding of its mysteries and to attain its moral and spiritual doctrines and messages in any era and for any generatio...

Social link identification SIL, that is to identify accounts across different online social networks that belong to the same user, is an important task in social network applications. Most existing methods to solve this problem directly applied machine-learning classifiers on features extracted from user’s rich information. In practice, however, only some limited user information can be obtaine...

The present study is aimed at assessing the state of national identity among female students of Ahwaz Islamic Azad University and explores the social factors affecting upon it. The statistical society consisted of 8532 students at the three levels of associate diploma undergraduate and master degrees. The research method in this study is a “survey” and collection of data has been carried out by...

In the early years of CMC research (which is to say up until very recently), those of us researching CMC had no choice but to make up rules and procedures as we went along. Quite simply, the phenomena we were investigating hadn't been in existence long enough yet for others to have paved the way with methodologies, ethical guidelines, and the like. Being among the first brought with it a sense ...

Mobile Ad hoc Networks (MANET) use anonymous routing protocols that hide node identities and routes from outside observers in order to provide anonymity protection. Existing anonymous routing protocols relay on hop by hop encryption or redundant traffic by generation high cost. The high cost exacerbates the inherent resource constraint problem in MANETs. Existing anonymous routing protocols pro...

The ovine CD4 cDNA sequence from four sheep sources (Australian Merino, Indonesian Thin Tail, Canadian cross bred, Prealpes du sud) predicts a protein of 455 residues with position 130 in the V2 domain exhibiting a W instead of C suggesting that, like the white whale, dog and cat sequences, sheep CD4 contains only two disulphide bonds. The sequence shows 73% amino acid identity and 83% nucleoti...

The discovery of Helicobacter hepaticus and its role in hepatitis, hepatocellular carcinoma, typhlocolitis, and lower-bowel carcinoma in murine colonies was followed by the isolation and characterization of other Helicobacter spp. involved in enterohepatic disease. Colonization of mouse colonies with members of the family Helicobacteriaceae has become an increasing concern for the research comm...