After collecting the essential historical, archaeological, and artistic information relative to the ancient town of Nikopolis in Epirus and its Alpha (or Doumetios) Basilica, built in the sixth century A.D., glass tesserae belonging to degraded and lost parts of the mosaic floors of the basilica were frames analysed, determining their chemical comp

The innate immune system is ancient and highly conserved.It is the first line of defense and the only recognizable immune system in the vast majority of metazoans.Signaling events that convert pathogen detection into a defense response are central to innate immunity.Drosophila has emerged as an invaluable model organism for studying this regulation

School-based standard testing continues to evolve, yet in some ways it remains surprisingly close to its roots in the first two decades of the twentieth century.After use for many years as Cowhides a diagnostic and as a filter for access to education, in the closing years of the century it has been pressed into service for state-run political accou

Progress control is a key technology for successfully carrying out a project by predicting possible problems, particularly production delays, and establishing measures to avoid them (decision-making).However, shipyard progress management is still dependent on the empirical judgment of the manager, and this has led to delays in delivery, which raise