This book consists of 6 papers focusing on social and economic issues. The topics covered include graph distance and optimal communication, migration in Jaipur, urbanization, clan capitalism, world population growth rate, and scientific inquiry. These papers were written in the period between 20092010. Hopefully the readers will find some new insights in this collection of papers. Collection of...

This annotated bibliography focuses on issues of power, participation and governance in relation to Somali networks. There is a healthy body of academic literature examining Somali social structures, including networks and clans. Specific detail on the power relations and differentials between and within clans, however, is scarce. Experts attribute this lack of knowledge to the complexity and f...

MOTIVATION Side-chain modeling has seen wide applications in computational structure biology. Most of the popular side-chain modeling programs explore the conformation space using discrete rigid rotamers for speed and efficiency. However, in the tightly packed environments of protein interiors, these methods will inherently lead to atomic clashes and hinder the prediction accuracy. RESULTS We...

Dark Moon was gone, Low Cloud lamented. Gone forever. The Clan Wise Man had gone back to the place whence the Puma People, like all creatures treading upon the Great Mother's mesa or flying under the Great Father's sky, had come, and whither they would all return. And so never again would be see all the moons that had been and those to be and share this vision. Young Low Cloud bad never known a...

Recent work in metrical typology within Optimality Theory has emphasised the rhythmic distribution of stress peaks by reference to clashes and lapses, compared to the more central role of foot constituency characteristic of most previous approaches. One consequence of this emphasis has been the introduction of constraints that require reference to non-adjacent objects in the representation, suc...

For many years, scientists have been trying to unravel the protein folding process. This paper presents a proposition of an improvement to one of models trying to describe it, the elliptical model, developed by the Department of Bioinformatics and Telemedicine UJ-CM [22]. The model assumes a division of a protein folding process into two stages: the Early-Stage (ES) and the Late-Stage (LS). Aft...

Here, we show that modern solution nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) structures of RNA exhibit more steric clashes and conformational ambiguities than their crystallographic X-ray counterparts. To tackle these issues, we developed RNA-ff1, a new force field for structure calculation with Xplor-NIH. Using seven published NMR datasets, RNA-ff1 improves covalent geometry and MolProbity validation c...

Even when sophisticated software development process is used, e.g., the Stakeholder Win Win Risk-Driven Spiral Process, software development projects often fail. A prime reason for this failure is unresolved, often undetected, differences among stakeholders’ sets of assumptions—their “models”—of various aspects of the project. MBASE is an approach to identifying “model clashes” so that their ri...