Although the physiological function of the prion protein remains unknown, in vitro experiments suggest that the protein may bind copper (II) ions and play a role in copper transport or homoeostasis in vivo. The unstructured N-terminal region of the prion protein has been shown to bind up to six copper (II) ions, with each of these ions co-ordinated by a single histidine imidazole and nearby bac...

In the paper the model of voice interface, which provides automatic input of Russian speech is proposed. The morphemes level of speech representation is introduced and as a result the size of vocabulary is significantly decreased. The developed morphemes databases are used for collecting the statistics of morphemes co-ordination by text corpuses. At that during recognition the degree of co-ordi...

X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) has been used extensively to probe the local environment of transition metal centres in biological systems. The synergy between such XAS studies and co-ordination chemistry is well developed. Examples where XAS studies of metal centres in biological systems have stimulated developments in coordination chemistry include Amavadin and representatives of the oxym...

In our study of four outsourcing projects we discover mechanisms to support managerial decision making during software development processes. We report on Customer Office, a framework used in practice that facilitates reasoning about projects by highlighting information paths and making co-ordination issues explicit. The results suggest a key role of modularisation and standardisation to assist...

Co-ordination, coupled with communication, is very important for any multi-robot system to successfully accomplish the task. Co-ordination and communication can multiply the capabilities and effectiveness of a group of robots. Having made great progress in the development of the basic problems concerning single-robot control, many researchers shifted their focus to the study of multi-robot coor...