SUBORDINATION, CONFORMITY AND ALIGNMENT

Subordination, conformity and alignment

Can a judiciary operating in an autocratic political system be expected to defend the rule of law? What are the implications of the relative autonomy of the judges in such an environment? The main reason why judges are unable to affirm the values of the rule of law is that several conditions of resistance are lacking.Organizational, structural and

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Multilocus sequence typing database for Streptococcus agalactiae contains a spurious allele of the transketolase gene

ABSTRACT The tkt (transketolase) gene is one of the seven gene fragments used in the multilocus sequence typing (MLST) system for Streptococcus agalactiae.We discovered that the tkt_134 allele is derived from a homologous gene (which we designate tktX) that is not present in all S.agalactiae; all known strains that contain a match to the tkt_134 al

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