BACKGROUND Mating-type loci of mushroom fungi contain master regulatory genes that control recognition between compatible nuclei, maintenance of compatible nuclei as heterokaryons, and fruiting body development. Regions near mating-type loci in fungi often show adapted recombination, facilitating the generation of novel mating types and reducing the production of self-compatible mating types. C...

OBJECTIVE To estimate the prevalence of physical and/or sexual violence by intimate partners and factors associated with this, in different sociocultural contexts. METHODS This cross-sectional study formed part of the 'WHO Multi-country Study on Women's Health and Domestic Violence against Women'. It consisted of representative samples of women from the municipality of São Paulo (Southeastern...

here, adomian decomposition method has been used for finding approximateand numerical solutions of nonlinear differential difference equations arising inmathematical physics. two models of special interest in physics, namely, thehybrid nonlinear differential difference equation and relativistic toda couplednonlinear differential-difference equation are chosen to illustrate the validity andthe g...

Decomposing the Gender Wage Gap in the Netherlands with Sample Selection Adjustments In this paper, we use quantile regression decomposition methods to analyze the gender gap between men and women who work full time in the Netherlands. Because the fraction of women working full time in the Netherlands is quite low, sample selection is a serious issue. In addition to shedding light on the source...

Lutzomyia naftalekatzi, a new phlebotomine sand fly belonging to the L. aragaoi species group, is described from specimens collected in Zona da Mata region of Pernambuco, Brazil.

The lack of an experimentally amenable sexual genetic system in Aspergillus fumigatus is a major limitation in the study of the organism's pathogenesis. A recent comparative genome analysis revealed evidence for potential sexuality in A. fumigatus. Homologs of mating type genes as well as other genes of the "sexual machinery" have been identified in anamorphic A. fumigatus. The mat1-2 gene enco...

OBJECTIVE To validate the instrument of the World Health Organization Violence Against Women (WHO VAW) study on psychological, physical and sexual violence against women perpetrated by intimate partners. METHODS This was a cross-sectional study conducted in several countries between 2000 and 2003, including Brazil. Representative random samples of women aged 15-49 years with intimate partners...

Multi-Agent Systems (MAS), a loosely coupled network of problem solvers that work together in order to resolve problems which are beyond an individual capabilities or knowledge of each problem solver, a task which other legendary paradigms say for client-server model and many distributed environments fails to do so, pose problems for scalability, reliability etc. in the development of complex d...