In a multidimensional (MD) database, dimensions may be subject to semantic conditions that are not enforced by MD DBMSs or data warehouse applications. Strictness and homogeneity are possibly two of them; and are crucial for the efficiency and correctness of answering MD aggregate queries and updating materialized aggregate views. Dimensions may become inconsistent, i.e. non-strict or heterogen...

The genus Azolla forms a group of small-leafed, floating aquatic ferns native to the tropics, subtropics, and warm temperate regions of Africa, Asia, and America. For several decades, these ferns have been utilized for various purposes: e.g. as green manure, feed for animals, but also for the removal of different metals (e.g. Hg, Pb, Cr and Cd) through wastewater treatment or for elimination of...

The vast majority of protein sequences are aperiodic; they do not have any strong bias in the amino acid composition, and they use a subtle mixture of all or most of the 20 amino acid residues to code a great number of various structures and functions. In this context, homorepeats, runs of a single amino acid residue, represent unusual, eye-catching motifs in proteins. Despite the sequence simp...

It has been reported that genes up-regulated in cancer are often down-regulated in neurodegenerative disorders and vice versa. The fact that apparently unrelated diseases share functional pathways suggests a link between their etiopathogenesis and the properties of molecules involved. Are there specific features that explain the exclusive association of proteins with either cancer or neurodegen...

Sufficient dimension reduction has been extensively explored in the context of independent and identically distributed data. In this article we generalize sufficient dimension reduction to longitudinal data and propose an estimating equation approach to estimating the central mean subspace. The proposed method accounts for the covariance structure within each subject and improves estimation eff...

ADP-glucose pyrophosphorylase (AGPase), a key enzyme involved in higher plant starch biosynthesis, is composed of pairs of large (LS) and small subunits (SS). Ample evidence has shown that the AGPase catalyzes the rate limiting step in starch biosynthesis in higher plants. In this study, we compiled detailed comparative information about ADP glucose pyrophosphorylase in selected plants by analy...

the purpose of this study was comparison of applicability of tertiary treatment of tehran domestic sewage with organic and inorganic coagulants or a combination of them. the far test procedure was applied utilizing: alum, polyelectrolyte wt 2600, anionic polyelectorlyte wt 3000, and nonionic polyelctrolyte wt 2690 as organic coagulants (products of calgon). the combination of lime with each of ...

A new set of amino acid descriptors, SZOTT (Scores of Zero dimension, One dimension, Two dimension, Three dimension) was derived from principal component analysis on a matrix of 1369 descriptors including 0D, 1D, 2D and 3D information of 20 coded amino acids. SZOTT scales were then employed to represent structures of HLA-A*0201 restrictive CTL epitopes, and further, quantitative sequence-activi...

Resveratrol stability in solution can be improved by combining the polyphenol with carboxymethylated (1,3/1,6)-β-D-glucan (CM-glucan), a carbohydrate polymer widely used in the food and pharmaceutical industries. The present work was undertaken to elucidate the mechanism behind this stabilizing effect. The supramolecular structural, physico-chemical and morphological features of the CM-glucan/r...