ABSTRACT The soil bacterium Myxococcus xanthus is a model organism with a set of diverse behaviors.These behaviors include the starvation-induced multicellular development program, in which cells move collectively to assemble multicellular aggregates.After initial aggregates have formed, some will disperse, with smaller aggregates having a higher c

With a strong commercial incentive driving the increase in game ranching in Southern Africa the need has come for more advanced management tools.In this paper the potential of Portfolio Selection Theory to determine the optimal mix of species on game ranches is explored.Land, or the food it produces, is a Barbells resource available to invest.We co

This research work considers a scenario of cloud computing job-shop scheduling problems.We consider m realtime jobs with various lengths and n machines with different computational speeds and costs.Each job has a deadline to be met, and the profit of processing a packet of a job differs from other jobs.Moreover, considered deadlines are either hard

Abstract This article conducted a scientometric analysis of entrepreneurship research during the COVID-19 pandemic and its aftermath.The results show that the research focused on four thematic research clusters, namely (a) entrepreneurship and crisis management (b) social entrepreneurship and SmartRest collaborative networks (c) entrepreneurship an