The possibility to artificially adjust and fine‐tune gene expression is one of the key mile-stones in bioengineering, synthetic biology, and advanced medicine. Since the effects of proteins or other transgene products depend on the dosage, controlled gene expression is ...

The article discusses the issues related to the integration of people with intellectual disabilities and mental disorders in the community after they have relocated to a community group home. The ecological mapping approach reveals and compares aspects of the physical a...

Lars Erik Blomqvist was an outstanding Swedish Slavist and celebrated translator of Russian literature. He was awarded numerous prizes for his work as a translator, honored as the best lecturer at Uppsala University, bestowed the degree of doctor honoris causa by Stockh...

Research background: The role of communication has now become much more critical than during previous periods, not only to compete with other organisations in the stream of communicating messages but also to develop and implement organisational strategies and support th...

Personalised learning embraces the elements of mutual ownership by learners and teachers, flexible content, tools and learning environments, targeted support, and data-driven reflection and decision making. The current study utilises a mix of instrumental case study (St...

Bayes multiclass classification of spatial Gaussian data following the universal kriging model is considered. The closed-form expressions for the maximum likelihood (ML) estimator of regression parameters and the actual error rate (AER) in terms of semivariograms are de...

A short message is dedicated to professor Gunnar Kulldorff who was the founder of the Baltic-Nordic-Ukrainian Network on Survey Statistics, and the President of the International Statistical Institute.

Academic institutions are seeking to attract the most capable and prospective students. Many research studies seek to identify factors determining a successful transition from secondary to tertiary education. One of the important issues is the predictive value of nation...

The present paper focuses on Irvine Welsh’s novel Porno (2002), the sequel to Trainspotting (1993). Most of the events of the novel take place in Edinburgh, and the changing face of Leith, a working-class neighbourhood, becomes the central axis in the story. By drawing ...