the aim of this research is to understand and assess the application of organizational learning capabilities in the status quo and review desirable situations in the context of the agricultural faculty environment. data were collected from 329 faculty members in 19 public agricultural faculties using a survey questionnaire. results indicate that organizational learning capabilities are below av...

We have recently developed a flexible protein structure alignment program (FATCAT) that identifies structural similarity, at the same time accounting for flexibility of protein structures. One of the most important applications of a structure alignment method is to aid in functional annotations by identifying similar structures in large structural databases. However, none of the flexible struct...

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Flexible filamentous viruses make up a large fraction of the known plant viruses, but in comparison with those of other viruses, very little is known about their structures. We have used fiber diffraction, cryo-electron microscopy, and scanning transmission electron microscopy to determine the symmetry of a potyvirus, soybean mosaic virus; to confirm the symmetry of a potexvirus, potato virus X...

The main purpose of the present work is to investigate the impact of soil-structure interaction on performance-based design optimization of steel moment resisting frame (MRF) structures. To this end, the seismic performance of optimally designed MRFs with rigid supports is compared with that of the optimal designs with a flexible base in the context of performance-based design. Two efficient me...

In processing large quantities of data, a fundamental problem isto obtain a summary which supports approximate query answer-ing. Random sampling yields flexible summaries which naturallysupport subset-sum queries with unbiased estimators and well-understood confidence bounds. Classic sample-based summaries,however, are designed for arbitrary subset queries and are oblivi-<lb...

Systems involving flexible bodies interacting with surrounding fluid flow are commonplace, but are challenging to model numerically on account of their complex geometries and freely moving boundaries. In the present study, we developed an immersed boundary method (IB) for simulating fluid−flexible structure interactions. Our method is based on an efficient Navier-Stokes solver adopting the frac...