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The article focuses on the effects of economic stabilization policy has had on investment planning. It states that efforts at economic stabilization after World War II have had some success, which has resulted in an improved climate for investment. It suggests that government policies should be designed to encourage private spending, either by altering the way the economy responds to cyclical disturbances or by inducing changes in total demand. It comments on the use of forecasting to help in preventing recessions or other economic downturns.

The article provides a discussion on the colonial and postcolonial dialectics of political Islam in North Africa. United States, being the principal imperial power, needs to take political Islam into consideration and U.S. policy-makers need to review the evolution of this political doctrine. It is noted that the dialectics of political Islam can be considered as a series of responses to the Western' ideas and practices' penetration into the Muslim societies. And North Africa, being the one which experienced most penetration with the most number of responses, should be reviewed more intricately.

Motivation: Multiple sequence alignments (MSAs) are at the heart of bioinformatics analysis. Recently, a number of multiple protein sequence alignment benchmarks (i.e. BAliBASE, OXBench, PREFAB and SMART) have been released to evaluate new and existing MSA applications. These databases have been well received by researchers and help to quantitatively evaluate MSA programs on protein sequences. Unfortunately, analogous DNA benchmarks are not available, making evaluation of MSA programs difficult for DNA sequences., Results: This work presents the first known multiple DNA sequence alignment benchmarks that are (1) comprised of protein-coding portions of DNA (2) based on biological features such as the tertiary structure of encoded proteins. These reference DNA databases contain a total of 3545 alignments, comprising of 68 581 sequences. Two versions of the database are available: mdsa_100s and mdsa_all. The mdsa_100s version contains the alignments of the data sets that TBLASTN found 100% sequence identity for each sequence. The mdsa_all version includes all hits with an E-value score above the threshold of 0.001. A primary use of these databases is to benchmark the performance of MSA applications on DNA data sets. The first such case study is included in the Supplementary Material.

1. Although a body of knowledge allows intervention of and effective therapy for bipolar affective behavior, only a few mental health professionals treating them have focused on the quality of their marriages, or the specific attitudes of the well spouses toward marital problems or divorce. 2. The present results showed that women married to men with bipolar affective disorder have more problems with separation-individuation than women married to men who are not bipolar. 3. Unresolved anxiety about separation from a loved object, anxiety that dates back to early childhood, may need to be discussed in detail before any progress can be made in resolving the marital difficulties.