Derrick MacFabe’s hypothesis that propionic acid generated by gut bacteria induces autism [1], while compelling, leaves one question largely unanswered: Why do children with inborn propionic acidemia rarely show autistic behavior? Although exacerbations of Propionic Acidemia (PA) bear “some resemblance” to autism spectrum disorders (ASD), MacFabe noted, only one case of autism associated with P...

The role of agriculture as an instrument for industrialization had been rigorously conceptualized in the 1960s and 1970s under the classical paradigm of development economics. After many implementation failures under import substitution industrialization policies and protracted neglect of agriculture under the policies of the Washington Consensus that followed the debt crisis, agriculture has g...

This paper focuses on the political economy of policy reform in post-socialist countries. It investigates the impact of institutions on economic transformation processes and seeks to develop and empirically test a concept of governance that will strengthen policy reforms and make them sustainable. By arguing that effective policy reforms require an adequate politico-institutional foundation, th...

We have developed a method for identifying consensus patterns in a set of unaligned DNA sequences known to bind a common protein or to have some other common biochemical function. The method is based on a matrix representation of binding site patterns. Each row of the matrix represents one of the four possible bases, each column represents one of the positions of the binding site and each eleme...

The OHS Working Group formed out of the 2nd Workshop on Open Hypermedia Systems at Hypertext '96 in Washington, DC (March 1996). The initial goals of the OHS Working Group were to define open hypermedia systems and to define open link services. The OHS Working Group meeting in Southampton, England (December 1996) showed that it is difficult to discuss scenarios and especially protocols [Davis e...