Concerns about corruption have significantly grown in international investment law. Although foreign may boost the social and economic development of host country, tainted by has adverse effects, such as rising transaction costs declining confidence business climate. As a result, there is contentious argument over whether an investor who used bribery during their can file claim against State ar...

Viruses usually induce a profound remodeling of host cells, including the usurpation of host machinery to support their replication and production of virions to invade new cells. Nonetheless, recognition of viruses by the host often triggers innate immune signaling, preventing viral spread and modulating the function of immune cells. It conventionally occurs through production of antiviral fact...

Recent SSDs use parallel architectures with multi-channel and multiway, and manages multiple pages in a group, called superpage, to reduce the size of address mapping information. Such a coavrse grained mapping provides a poor performance for small sized random write requests. To solve the problem, this paper proposes a novel host-level device driver, called HARD, which merges several small siz...

Chlorite flakes, as a product of alteration of biotite, the dominant ferromagnesian mineral in the Paleozoic granitic rocks of the Canadian Appalachians, have been analyzed by electron microprobe for major elements and by 57Fe M?ssbauer spectroscopy for the coordination and oxidation state of Fe. Comparison of M?ssbauer Fe3+/Fe ratios obtained from chlorite and its host biotite indicates that c...

Vector-borne diseases represent a threat to human and wildlife populations and mathematical models provide a means to understand and control epidemics involved in complex host-vector systems. The disease model studied here is a host-vector system with a relapsing class of host individuals, used to investigate tick-borne relapsing fever (TBRF). Equilibrium analysis is performed for models with i...