Introduction Despite being one of the countries that has enjoyed relative peace for a sufficiently long time, Malawi remains one of the countries in the world with the worst health indicators. The maternal mortality rate for Malawi is very high by any standard. According to the Malawi Demographic and Health Surveys (MDHS), the maternal mortality rate for Malawi almost doubled between 1992 (620 ...

Using Plücker coordinates we construct a matrix whose columns parametrize all projective isotropic lines in a symplectic space E of dimension 4 over a finite field Fq. As an application of this construction we explicitly obtain the smallest subfamily of algebro-geometric codes defined by the corresponding Lagrangian-Grassmannian variety. Furthermore, we show that this subfamily is a class of th...

Introduction: We are continuing our program to determine the size distribution of cometary nuclei. We have compiled a catalog of 105 measurements of 57 cometary nuclei, drawn from the general literature, from our own program of CCD photometry of distant cometary nuclei (Lowry and Weissman [1]), and from unpublished observations by colleagues. We model the cumulative size distribution of the nuc...

Conserved non-coding sequences (CNSs) are conserved sequences in genomes and often contain cis-regulatory elements such as transcription factor binding sites. The KCNK gene family proteins represent an ancient system of ionic regulation found in nearly all metazoan cell types. A conservative set of 33 genes from this family was derived by using structural/biophysical criteria. Here, we investig...

A recursive model of the level and distribution of family income in Standard Metropolitan Statistical Areas is formulated and estimated. The model is related to both human capital and job competition models. Then, the impacts of changes in racial, educational, and industrial composition on the level and distribution of income are analyzed. DETERMINANTS OF THE' LEVEL AND DISTRIBUTION OF FAMILY I...

Employee job satisfaction and organisational commitment are directly influenced by leadership styles. Despite the fact that good elements of have already been explored, bad sides must be addressed as well. This study examined relationship between school toxic leadership, teachers’ in Lagos State tertiary institutions. Two hypotheses were set to serve guides for study. Correlational descriptive ...

We present a new catalog of absolute nuclear magnitudes of Jupiter family (JF) comets, which is an updated version of our previous catalog (Tancredi et al. 2000). The full version of the catalog can be accessed on line at http://www.fisica.edu.uy/∼gonzalo/catalog. From the new catalog we find a linear cumulative luminosity function (CLF) of slope 0.54 ± 0.03 for JF comets with q < ∼ 2.5 AU. By ...

Insects are part of the earliest faunas that invaded terrestrial environments and are the first organisms that evolved controlled flight. Nowadays, insects are the most diverse animal group on the planet and comprise the majority of extant animal species described. Moreover, they have a huge impact in the biosphere as well as in all aspects of human life and economy; therefore understanding all...

In organisms other than higher plants, family 19 chitinase was first discovered in Streptomyces griseus HUT6037, and later, the general occurrence of this enzyme in Streptomyces species was demonstrated. In the present study, the distribution of family 19 chitinases in the class Actinobacteria and the phylogenetic relationship of Actinobacteria family 19 chitinases with family 19 chitinases of ...

We compare the frequency distribution of gene family sizes in the complete genomes of six bacteria (Escherichia coli, Haemophilus influenzae, Helicobacter pylori, Mycoplasma genitalium, Mycoplasma pneumoniae, and Synechocystis sp. PCC6803), two Archaea (Methanococcus jannaschii and Methanobacterium thermoautotrophicum), one eukaryote (Saccharomyces cerevisiae), the vaccinia virus, and the bacte...