In 2006-07, approximately 25,000 people were engaged in science and technology (S&T) activities in federal laboratories located in all regions of Canada. These laboratories play a crucial role in the Canadian science and innovation enterprise, and account for more than $4 billion in annual investment by the Government of Canada. The scientific activities they conduct support two essential funct...

This study aims to explain and elaborate a new model for the business environmental hostility in small and medium enterprises in the science and technology park in Kermanshah (Iran). The research method is a mixed method. Content analysis was used in the qualitative part, and a confirmatory factor analysis was used in the quantitative section. In the qualitative section for the environmental ho...

background & aim: investigation of suspension cell culture and callus production in catharanthus roseus. catharanthus roseus is an herbaceous perennial plant belongs to the family apocynaceae. c. roseus is important as commercial medicinal plant because of its alkaloidal content. whole plant contains about 130 alkaloids those are classified as vinca alkaloids. vincristine and vinblastine; t...

The sulfur regulatory circuit of the filamentous fungus, Neurospora crassa, consists of a set of unlinked structural genes which encode sulfur catabolic and two major regulatory genes which govern their expression. The cys-3 regulatory gene encode a transacting regulatory protein which activates the expression of cys-14 and ars, whereas the other regulatory genes Scon-l and Scon-2 appear to...

Science-based” standards are an integral part of modern regulatory systems. Studies on “public understanding of science” mostly focus on high technology areas in advanced economies. In contrast, the present study analyses the public understanding of regulation in the context of standard-setting for bottled water quality in India. Using primary data, the econometric models of this paper show tha...

This paper discusses common errors emanating from authors submitting manuscripts or papers for publication in peer refereed Library and Information journals. It is hoped that this paper will provide established, novice and potential scholarly journal author’s with valuable information enabling the improvement of their manuscripts before submission for publication. The paper primarily uses the a...

In this paper, we describe SuperTrust, a novel and efficient framework designed to handle trust relationships in Superpeer networks. What distinguishes SuperTrust from other works is that trust reports remain encrypted and are never opened during the submission or aggregation processes, thus guaranteeing privacy, anonymity, fairness, persistence and eligibility of transactions.

Using the RAevol model we investigate whether the molecular complexity of evolving organisms is linked to the “complexity” of their environment. Here, the complexity is considered as the number of different states environments can have. Results strikingly show that the number of genes acquired by an organism during its evolution does not increase when the number of states of the environment inc...