Prediction of protein folding class using global description of amino acid sequence.

We present a method for predicting protein folding class based on global protein chain description and a voting process. Selection of the best descriptors was achieved by a computer-simulated neural network trained on a data base consisting of 83 folding classes. Protein-chain descriptors include overall composition, transition, and distribution of amino acid attributes, such as relative hydrophobicity, predicted secondary structure, and predicted solvent exposure. Cross-validation testing was performed on 15 of the largest classes. The test shows that proteins were assigned to the correct class (correct positive prediction) with an average accuracy of 71.7%, whereas the inverse prediction of proteins as not belonging to a particular class (correct negative prediction) was 90-95% accurate. When tested on 254 structures used in this study, the top two predictions contained the correct class in 91% of the cases.

Annotated almanac, 1770

Almanac with sporadic annotations on the calendar pages and interleaved with entries in John Winthrop's hand for the months of January-April. The entries record Winthrop's social engagements and travel, with only occasional notes of the weather. There is also a folded interleaved leaf after the December page with scientific observations and a description of the Boston massacre (March 5).

Annotated almanac, 1777

Almanac containing interleaved pages and sporadic annotations on the calendar pages by John Winthrop. The calendar pages are typically annotated with one or two notes at the bottom recording household activities. The interleaved pages contain entries with almost daily notes of social engagements and travel during the year. One interleaved leaf contains short miscellaneous entries about local deaths including the death and funeral of Harvard Tutor John Wadsworth (July 12), Revolutionary war battles, an illness (May 27), a description of changing currency (June 27), Doctor Doddridge's epigram "Dum vivimus vivamus" beginning "'Live while you live,' the Epicure will say...", and a short list of legal activities such as citations and wills performed in Winthrop's capacity as a Judge of Probate.

Diary and commonplace book of Peres Fobes, 1759-1760

The diary and commonplace book of Perez Fobes is written on unlined pages in a notebook with a sewn binding at the top of the pages; only the edge of the original leather softcover remain. The volume holds handwritten entries added irregularly from August 23, 1759 until December 1760 while Fobes was a student at Harvard College. The topics range from the irreverent, to the mundane, to the theological and scientific. The notebook serves to chronicle both his daily activities, such as books he read, lectures he attended, and travel, as well as a place to note humorous sayings, transcribe book passages, or ponder religious ideas such as original sin. In the volume, Fobes devotes considerable space to the subject of astronomy, and drew a picture of the "The Solar System Serundum Coper[nici] with the Or[bit] of 5 Remarkable Comets." At the back of the book, on unattached pages is a short personal dictionary for the letters A-K kept by Fobes.

Paving the Way for Micro-, Small- and Medium-Sized Enterprises in the Southern Mediterranean. CEPS Policy Brief No. 314, 14 January 2014

The upheavals of the Arab Spring in the southern Mediterranean led to domestic and international demands on the governments in the region to implement reforms aimed at enhancing business and investment conditions especially for micro, small- and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs), which carry out an overwhelming majority of the region’s economic activity. A comprehensive survey among some 600 high-growth potential MSMEs in Algeria, Egypt, Morocco and Tunisia identified and ranked the key obstacles impeding their high-growth potential. This Policy Brief summarises the main results and policy recommendations that can be drawn from this survey, which has been analysed in depth by Ayadi & De Groen (2014).

Measuring Returns to Education and Human Capital in the Southern Mediterranean. MEDPRO Technical Report No. 17/September 2012

Measuring human capital has been a significant challenge for economists because the main variable of interest is intangible and not directly observable. In the Middle Eastern and Northern African region the task is further complicated by the general scarcity of comparable and reliable data. This study overcomes these challenges by relying on a unique international survey that covers most of the region and by deriving a market-based measure that uses returns to education and various labour market factors as guidance. The results show that private returns to schooling are relatively low in most southern Mediterranean countries (SMC). Israel and Turkey are clear outliers, surpassing even the EU-MED averages. In Algeria and Jordan, the returns are almost flat, implying that earnings do not respond significantly to education levels. Despite high attainment levels, Greece, Spain and Portugal also perform badly; only marginally surpassing some of the bottom-ranked SMC, providing evidence of problems in absorption capacity. The baseline scenarios for 2030 show substantial sensitivity to current estimates on returns to education. In particular, improving attainment levels can produce measurable gains in the future only when the returns to education are already high. Such is the case for Egypt, Morocco and Turkey, which substantially improve their human capital stocks under the baseline scenarios, surpassing several EU-MED countries with little or no room for improvement.

The Effects of Sanctions and Counter-Sanctions on EU-Russian Trade Flows. CEPS Commentary, 5 July 2016

After Russia annexed Crimea in early 2014 and then intervened, manu militari, in the Eastern part of Ukraine, the European Union wanted to show its disapproval and put pressure on Russia to change its behaviour. A wide variety of measures were taken, including the imposition of individual restrictions, such as asset freezes and travel bans, but also the suspension of development loans from the EBRD. But the EU (together with the United States) also took, in July and September 2014, a set of broader measures: limited access to EU primary and secondary capital markets for targeted Russian financial institutions and energy and defence companies; export and import bans on trade in arms; an export ban for dual-use goods and reduction of Russia’s access to sensitive technologies and services linked to oil production.

Reporting under the Welfare and Pension Plans Disclosure Act, Public Law 85-836 : effective Jan. 1, 1959, 72 Stat. 997.

"Guide in using plan description and annual report forms prepared by the Secretary of Labor."

[Culinary ephemera : gelatin and tapioca].

Corporate contributors include: Genesee Pure Food Company; Jell-O-Co. Inc.

Survey of international travel : Supplement.

Each vol. has also a distinctive title: 1957- United States participation in international travel.

Country margins and rambles of a journalist.

Sketches of life and travel in the state of New York, first published in the Albany State Register.

Thermal effects on static aeroelastic stability and control.

v. 1. Methods of predicting structural temperatures due to aerodynamic heating, by A. H. Blessing.--v. 2. Aerodynamics, by J. R Batt.--v. 3. Experimental and analytical methods for the determination of thermally-affected wing deflectional behavior, by R. H. Gallagher.--v. 3. sup. Description and results of tests conducted to determine the thermally affected behavior of corrugated multiweb wing structures, by J. F. Quinn.

Trade union publications: the official journals, convention proceedings, and constitutions of international unions and federations, 1850 1941,

I. Description and bibliography.--II. Subject index.--III. Subject index (concluded)

Illustrated supplement to the descriptive catalogue published by Edmond Johnson ... of fac-simile reproductions of Irish antique art metal work : specially manufactured for exhibition at the World's Fair, Chicago, 1893; the International Exposition, Paris, 1900; and the International Exhibition, Glasgow, 1901; and as supplied to the principal museums of America, Great Britain, and the Continent /

Acquisition made accessible thanks to the generous support of the Frederick J. and Margret L. Worden Endowment.

Iohn Huighen van Linschoten, His discours of voyages into ye Easte [and] West Indies : deuided into foure bookes

The second booke: the true and perfect description of the whole coast of Guinea, Manicongo, Angola, Manicongo, Angola, Monomotapa ... / and now translated out of dutch into english by W.P. (p. [3], 198-259) -- The thirde booke: The nauigation of the Portingales into the East Indies, containing their trauels by sea, into East India, and from the East Indies into Portingall ... / translated out of dutch by W.P. (p.[2], 307-447) -- The fourth booke: A most true and certaine extract and summarie of all the rents, demaines, tolles, taxes, impostes, tributes ... of the King of Spania ... / translated out of spanish into low-dutch by Iohn Hughen ... and out of dutch into english by W.P. (p. [3], 452-462)