Homology modeling is an effective technique in protein structure prediction (PSP). However this technique suffers from poor initial target-template alignments. To improve homology based PSP, we propose a scatter search ...

We address the problem of scatternet formation for network scenarios with a non-uniform distribution of Bluetooth devices. The assumption of having a non-uniform distribution of devices in a given area of interest is ...

The purpose of this study was to identify school factors that promoted students' academic and personal development and enhanced their success in higher education. The underlying assumption was that effective decentralised ...

The purpose of this study was to explore school science teachers' and their students' perceptions of science and scientists. The participants included 116 in-service middle school chemistry teachers who attended a training ...

Information security has become an important issue in the modern world as the popularity of internet commerce and communication technologies have emerged, making them a prospective medium to security threats. To surmount ...

Digital data are usually divided into structured and unstructured types. Although unstructured data are becoming a significant part of digital data, there are still a large number of organisations that save their data into ...

This article examines Tayeb Salih's Season of Migration to the North as it mimics Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness. It looks at the North-South dynamics in terms of colonial-postcolonial asymmetrical power relations ...

Although Lebanon has abundant water, its rivers are polluted and aquifer water mismanaged. Effective river water usage requires an understanding of the geochemistry of polluting metals in catchments. Climate is “Mediterranean”: ...

Ongoing political upheavals in many Middle East and North African countries represent major challenges to decades of authoritarian rule. Simultaneously, these upheavals also present a major dilemma to movements and parties ...