Abstract In the more recent decades, international investment law (“ iil ”) and arbitration have been going through a process of recalibration prompted by both intensification cross-border capital flows States’ growing concerns over potential restraints may impose upon pursuit public interests. The present contribution will pay attention to specific feature that can be observed within these dev...

In this paper, we study the fundamentals of timevarying filter banks (TVFB). Using a polyphase approach to TVFB’s, we are able to show some unusual properties that are not exhibited by the conventional LTI filter banks. For example, we can show that for a perfect reconstruction (PR) TVFB, the losslessness of analysis bank does not always imply that of the synthesis bank, and replacing the delay...

Novel high-throughput experimental techniques produce a large amount of data on the 3D structure of proteins and their structural motifs. These motifs can be used as patterns in drug discovery [1], can help to understand the relationship between a protein’s structure and its function [2] and to classify proteins [3]. In order to extract as much information as possible from this data, new techni...

There is a paramount need to develop new techniques and tools that will extract as much information as possible from the ever growing repository of protein 3D structures. We report here on the development of a software tool for the multiple superimposition of large sets of protein structural motifs. Our superimposition methodology performs a systematic search for the atom pairing that provides ...

The diversity of Type II supernovae (SNe II) is thought to be driven mainly by differences in their progenitor's hydrogen-rich (H-rich) envelope mass, with SNe IIP having long plateaus ($\sim100$ days) and the most massive H-rich envelopes. However, it an ongoing mystery why short (tens are rarely seen. Here, we present optical/near-infrared photometric spectroscopic observations luminous short...