This study investigated an algae/formate-utilizing-bacteria system that has been developed for carbon capture. photomixotrophic consortium consumed formate to support bacterial growth so the resulting respiration CO2 could be simultaneously used by algae avoid gas-lipid mass transfer limitation. To understand biomass and population interactions in this unique system, a kinetic model describe ba...

This contribution studies comparatively three Southern European countries (Italy, Spain, and Greece) Southeastern (Albania, Bosnia Herzegovina, Bulgaria). Looking beyond historical path-dependencies, we investigate recent developments in terms of state-religion relations. Starting with a thick description the legacies post-1989 developments, focus on issues last decade, such as rise populism na...

Some classes of continuous and discrete generalized Volterra models population dynamics are considered. It is supposed that there relationships the type "symbiosis", "compensationism" or "neutralism" between any two species in a biological community. The objective work to obtain conditions under which investigated possess convergence property. This means studying system admits bounded solution ...

Philosophers vigorously debate the rationality of hedonic bias toward future: a systematic preference for pleasurable experiences to be future and painful past. The over is distinctive in philosophy because arguments made on both sides concern descriptive empirically tractable claims about patterns preferences psychological mechanisms that could explain these patterns. Most notably, philosopher...

We examined 103 nucleotide sequences of the HIV-1 env gene, sampled from 35 countries and tested: I) the random (neutral) distribution of the number of nucleotide changes; II) the proportion of bases at molecular equilibrium; III) the neutral expected homogeneity of the distribution of new fixated bases; IV) the hypothesis of the neighbor influence on the mutation rates in a site. The expected ...

The conflict between the needs to encode both a protein (impaired by non-synonymous mutation), and nucleic acid structure (impaired by synonymous or non-synonymous mutation), can sometimes be resolved in favour of the nucleic acid because its structure is critical for a selectively advantageous genome-wide activity--recombination. However, above a sequence difference threshold, recombination is...

A hybrid of personal and state humanitarian action, King Alfonso’s European War Office in Madrid’s Royal Palace reached across social classes, rival camps continents, enabling Spain to pursue a policy active neutrality the First World War. Opened 1915 response large number desperate requests addressed Alfonso XIII from around globe inquiring about whereabouts, treatment repatriation loved ones ...