Social networks, such as virtual communities, permit connections between citizen and government. Integrating consultative and deliberative environments for popular participation in democratic issues and creating virtual communities for warranting better relationship among members make it possible to model decisionmaking processes. For this reason, the Democratic Citizenship Community (DCC) was ...

We discuss the space-time structure for the process of decay of a bubble of hypothetic phase – disoriented chiral condensate (DCC). The evolution of initial classical field configuration corresponding to the bubble of DCC is studied both numerically and analytically. The process of decay of this initial configuration depends crucially on selfinteraction of the pionic fields. It is shown that in...

We consider the quantum state describing the Disoriented Chiral Condensate (DCC), which may be produced in high energy collisions. We show how a mean field treatment of the quantum equations corresponding to the classical linear sigma model leads to a squeezed state description of the pions emerging from the DCC. We examine various squeezed and coherent state descriptions of those pions with pa...

Since 2008, X-ray structure depositions to the Protein Data Bank archive (PDB) have required submission of experimental data in the form of structure factor files. RCSB PDB has developed the program DCC to allow worldwide PDB (wwPDB; http://wwpdb.org) biocurators, using a single command-line program, to invoke a number of third-party software packages to compare the model file with the experime...

The dose conversion coefficient (DCC) is used to assess the risk due to inhaled radon progeny in the human lung. The present work uses the microdosimetric approach and determines the linear energy transfer in the target cell nuclei. Killing of target cells was also taken into account through an effect-specific track length model. To focus on the relevant part of the absorbed dose in the cell nu...

We propose an innovative cooperative co-evolutionary computation framework, Dynamic Cooperative Coevolution (DCC), which provides dynamic coupling of neighboring species for the fitness evaluation of individuals. One feature of DCC is the utilization of local fitness to achieve a global optimum, which makes it possible for co-evolutionary algorithms to be applied in localized distributed enviro...

Francisella tularensis causes pulmonary tularemia and death in humans when left untreated. Here, using a novel aerosol infection model, we show that acute pulmonary Francisella novicida infection not only causes pneumonia and liver damage, but also induces dystrophic cardiac calcinosis (DCC) in BALB/c mice. C57BL/6 mice also develop pneumonia and hepatic damage, but fail to develop DCC. Develop...

In order to investigate some characterist ics of Mil l ipore diffusion chamber cultures (DCC) and their potential for the quantitation of tumor cell growth kinetics, HeLa S-3-cells were grown in diffusion chambers implanted i.p. in mice. HeLa cells grew pseudologari thmical ly in DCC with a populat ion-doubl ing time of approximately 2.8 days when 9.2 to 12.0 • 105 cel ls were placed in the cha...

Dosage compensation in Drosophila melanogaster involves the selective targeting of the male X chromosome by the dosage compensation complex (DCC) and the coordinate, approximately 2-fold activation of most genes. The principles that allow the DCC to distinguish the X chromosome from the autosomes are not understood. Targeting presumably involves DNA sequence elements whose combination or enrich...

The establishment of anatomically stereotyped axonal projections is fundamental to neuronal function. While most neurons project their axons within the central nervous system (CNS), only axons of centrally born motoneurons and peripherally born sensory neurons link the CNS and peripheral nervous system (PNS) together by navigating through specialized CNS/PNS transition zones. Such selective res...