Nearly half of the world’s presidential democracies choose their chief executives using a majority-runoff electoral rule (MRO), while most others used single-round plurality. What difference does it make? On the one hand, critics of MRO assert that the lower threshold of the first round inflates the number of presidential candidates, and with it the size of the party system. A fragmented party ...

Accurate registration of external landmarks is often required for computer-aided surgery. In the study reported here, we investigated the influence of a new externally fixated multimodality registration object (MRO) on the accuracy of an image-guided navigation system in a human cadaver pelvis. With the MRO placed on the ipsilateral anterior superior iliac spine (ASIS), 14 of 17 target points s...

there are many real problems in which multiple responses should be optimized simultaneously by setting of process variables. one of the common approaches for optimization of multi-response problems is desirability function. in most real cases, there is a correlation structure between responses so ignoring the correlation may lead to mistake results. hence, in this paper a robust approach based ...

The encoded transcript of the Maestro-Male-specific Transcription in the developing Reproductive Organs (MRO) gene exhibits sexual dimorphic expression during murine gonadal development. The gene has no homology to any known gene and its expression pattern, protein function or structure are still unknown. Previously, studying gene expression in human ovarian cumulus cells, we found increased ex...

BACKGROUND Many microbial eukaryotes have evolved anaerobic alternatives to mitochondria known as mitochondrion-related organelles (MROs). Yet, only a few of these have been experimentally investigated. Here we report an RNA-seq-based reconstruction of the MRO proteome of Pygsuia biforma, an anaerobic representative of an unexplored deep-branching eukaryotic lineage. RESULTS Pygsuia's MRO has...

The development of short-to-medium-range order in atomic arrangements has generally been observed in noncrystalline solid systems such as metallic glasses. Whether such medium-range order (MRO) can exist in materials at well above their melting or glass-transition temperature has been a long-standing important scientific issue. Here, using ab initio molecular dynamics simulations, we show that ...

in design of experiments, analysis and identifying those variables that affect the outputs are of interest. response surface methodology is a mathematical-statistical method to optimize the experiment outputs. this method tries to find the best response levels by optimizing the design variables called factors. in many engineering applications, robust design has become the most important issues....

Agent-based auction trading plays an important role in the electronic acquisition of products/service for organization or e-procurement, especially for MRO materials. Effective agent-based trading has multiple benefits, such as reducing inventory levels, and a dual impact of centralizing strategic procurement objectives while decentralizing the operational procurement processes (Puschmann and A...

saturated fat consumption increases the risk of both coronary and cancer diseases. therefore, fat reduction in uf-feta cheese (≈ 45% fdm) is favorable but, unfortunately, it has some negative effects on the texture and sensory characteristics of the cheese. in this research, response surface methodology was employed to study the probably improving effects of wpc80 (0-20 gr kg-1), lecithin (0-2 ...