Th e publication of scientifi c literature and textbooks is probably one of the last stages in the development of a serious and mature university. Th is does not mean that universities after this phase do not continue to develop further, but rather that this phase is the completion of the internal structure. Th is is probably because publishing is a mature and developed academic activity associ...

Iodine-129, the long-lived radioisotope of iodine, occurs naturally, but anthropogenic generated 129 I has dominated the environment in the past 60 years. Due to active chemical and environmental properties of iodine and the enhanced analytical capacity for 129 I measurement, the application of 129 I as an environmental tracer has highly increased in the past 10 years. Neutron activation analys...

Driven by foreign investment, tourism in the archipelago of Zanzibar has experienced substantial growth over the last thirty years. Even though it was meant to promote local employment and economic development, foreigners – and Europeans in particular – remained the largest investors as well as the primary benefi ciaries. Tourism development has created new employment opportunities, but it has ...

Sub-micrometer-sized targets are found in intense laser–cluster interaction experiments and laser-based material processing. Here, we investigate the internal field localization due to Mie scattering its effect on ionization dynamics sub-micrometer-sized clusters using calculation particle-in-cell simulations. As a result of intertwined processes pulse propagation ionization, sub-micrometer nan...

Th is paper is the outcome of a bilateral Romanian-Austrian research project on new and innovative initiatives in rural development. It was the aim of the study to identify success factors of strategies applied and to verify their transferability. Th is article presents results related to the role of tourism in rural development in a comparative way focusing on the following main aspects: (1) t...

Th e research about the determinants of fi rms' performance has been a crucial question for managers, researchers and stockholders. Th e main objective of this exploratory paper is to study the economic drivers of revenue per available room (RevPAR) in the Portuguese hotels. Th is study examines the local and global factors driving RevPAR in diff erent hotel segments, calculating how much of th...

We present radio maps of the head-tail radio galaxy, 3C 129 at 240 and 610 MHz using the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope. We have studied in detail the morphology of the source and the distribution of spectral index over the object. We find large-scale spectral steepening along the jet away from the core. Using synchrotron spectral ageing theory, we infer the age (time since particle accelerati...

detection of plasmodium vivax specific antibodies with serological tests could be a valuable tool for epidemiological researches. whereas p. vivax cannot be simply obtained in vitro, serological tests using total or semi-purified antigens are infrequently used. given this restriction, the present study investigated whether recombinant p. vivax merozoite surface protein 1 (pvmsp-1 42 kda) could ...

BACKGROUND microRNAs (miRNAs) play a significant role in cancer development and progression by regulating the expression of oncogenes or tumor suppressor genes. Previous study using microarrays demonstrated that miR-142-3p was downregulated in patients with Non-small-cell lung carcinoma (NSCLC). However, the functional role of miR-142-3p in NSCLC is still unclear. MATERIAL AND METHOD Real-tim...