Ensifer alkalisoli YIC4027T is a dominant rhizobium that has been isolated from the root nodules of Sesbania cannabina. Motility and chemotaxis are critical to maintaining competitiveness in establishing symbiotic relationship. E. carries two gene clusters, che1 che2, containing chemotaxis-related homologues. To determine respective role each cluster, we constructed mutants compared them with w...

This paper describes the inner workings of Keyano, a competitive Othello program that has achieved many top-three nishes in tournament play over the last ve years. The unique features of Keyano's midgame search routine, evaluation function and opening book are described in this paper.

Data mining is a one of the growing sciences in the world that can play a competitive advantages rule in many firms. Data mining algorithms based on their functions can be divided in four categories; o Classification o Feature selection o Assassination rules o Clustering 03/06/2014 ITQM2014 2 DEA Entropy Method DataSets

Methods: This study examined 41 English Premiership soccer academy squads consisting of 12,306 player seasons for the incidence of lower back injury, injury severity, and investigated time to recovery in relation to potential risk factors. Injury risk was assessed for different times in a match and season, mechanism of injury, player position, player age, and competitive compared with noncompet...

Psychology's impact as an ergogenic aid across sports and competitive levels has been well documented. In addition, exercise can play a major role in disease prevention and health enhancement while also enhancing psychological well-being. In addition to its preventive value, exercise is being recognized as a valuable therapeutic tool. Like most therapeutic modalities, however, exercise also has...

Indeed, customer value has become the main concern of both manufacturing and service organizations in the increasingly competitive environment of today’s customer-centred era. Many organizations have been transforming their business models to enhance their ability to create value for their customers. In this process of creating customer value, marketing and quality both have crucial roles to play.

Soccer is a high intensity intermittent contact sport exposing elite level players to contin‐ ual physical, technical, tactical, psychological, and physiological demands (Owen et al, 2011; Dellal et al, 2011). Due to the huge financial rewards of being successful at the elite level of the sport, the demands placed upon the players are ever growing because of increased fixture schedules that gen...