Arolda Elbasani, Beken Saatçioğlu,
... the EU.Keywords: IslamEuropean integrationdemocracyTurkeyAlbania Notes on contributorsArolda Elbasani is Jean Monnet Fellow at Robert Schuman Centre ... has been a candidate country since 1999.7. Elbasani, "Religion and Democratization."8. See Bellin, "Faith in ... Ne Fillimet e Nacionalizmit Shqiptar, 406–23.53. Elbasani, "Religion and Democratization."54. Raxhimi, "Turkish Brand of ... 60. Yavuz, Secularism and Muslim Democracy, 168.61. Elbasani, "Religion and Democratization."62. Endersen, Is the Albanian's Religion Really "Albanianism"?.63. Elbasani, European Integration, 207.64. Sulstarova, Arratisje nga Lindja, ...
Tópico(s): Political Conflict and Governance
2012 - Taylor & Francis | Democratization
Rrapo Ormeni, Serkan Öztürk, Akli Fundo, Kemal Çelik,
... of current seismic activity throughout the Vlora-Lushnja-Elbasani-Dibra (VLED) transversal fault zone were carried out ... 00ºN-20.01ºE(in the Cerriku, south of Elbasani town), (iii) 41.31ºN-20.13ºE(around Bene-Qafe, northeast of Elbasani town), (iv) 41.43ºN-20.21ºE(Krasta-Batra, ...
Tópico(s): Seismic Imaging and Inversion Techniques
2018 - Austrian Geological Society | Mitteilungen der Österreichischen Geologischen Gesellschaft/Austrian journal of earth sciences
The Vlora-Elbasani-Dibra transversal fault zone crosses from south-west to northeast the Albanides collision zone starting from Vlora area to the Dumre diapir and continuing from Elbasani Quaternary graben to Dibra area, within the internal Albanides extensional zone. The Vlora-Elbasani-Dibra seismogenic fault zone is expressed by an ... with 15 Ms > 6 earthquakes. The Vlora-Berati-Elbasani segment of this fault zone during the year ... solutions of earthquakes that occurred along the Vlora-Elbasani-Dibra fault zone prove its division into two ...
Tópico(s): earthquake and tectonic studies
2021 - Science Publishing Group | Earth Sciences
... and Faith in the Post-Communist Era Arolda Elbasani PART I: THE PREVAILING PUBLIC DISCOURSE ON ISLAM ...
Tópico(s): Balkans: History, Politics, Society
2015 - RELX Group (Netherlands) | SSRN Electronic Journal
Lari Pyöriä, Maija Jokinen, Mari Toppinen, Henri Salminen, Tytti Vuorinen, Veijo Hukkanen, Constanze Schmotz, Endrit Elbasani, Päivi M. Ojala, Klaus Hedman, Hannamari Välimaa, Maria F. Perdomo,
By adulthood, almost all humans become infected by at least one herpesvirus (HHV). The maladies inflicted by these microbes extend beyond the initial infection, as they remain inside our cells for life and can reactivate, causing severe diseases. The diagnosis of active infection by these ubiquitous pathogens includes the detection of DNA with sensitive and specific assays. We developed the first quantitative PCR assay (HERQ-9) designed to identify and quantify each of the nine human herpesviruses. ...
Tópico(s): Herpesvirus Infections and Treatments
2020 - American Society for Microbiology | mSphere
Silvia Gramolelli, Endrit Elbasani, Krista Tuohinto, Veijo Nurminen, Thomas Günther, Riikka E. Kallinen, Seppo Kaijalainen, Raquel Díaz, Adam Grundhoff, Caj Haglund, Joseph M. Ziegelbauer, Teijo Pellinen, Mark Bower, Mathias François, Päivi M. Ojala,
Abstract Kaposi sarcoma is a tumor caused by Kaposi sarcoma herpesvirus (KSHV) infection and is thought to originate from lymphatic endothelial cells (LEC). While KSHV establishes latency in virtually all susceptible cell types, LECs support spontaneous expression of oncogenic lytic genes, high viral genome copies, and release of infectious virus. It remains unknown the contribution of spontaneous virus production to the expansion of KSHV-infected tumor cells and the cellular factors that render the ...
Tópico(s): Lymphoma Diagnosis and Treatment
2020 - American Association for Cancer Research | Cancer Research
Markus Fabits, Vladimir Gonçalves Magalhães, Baca Chan, Virginie Girault, Endrit Elbasani, Elisa Rossetti, Eiríkur Saeland, Martin Messerle, Andreas Pichlmair, Vanda Juranić Lisnić, Melanie M. Brinkmann,
The rapid activation of pattern recognition receptor (PRR)-mediated type I interferon (IFN) signaling is crucial for the host response to infection. In turn, human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) must evade this potent response to establish life-long infection. Here, we reveal that the HCMV tegument protein UL35 antagonizes the activation of type I IFN transcription downstream of the DNA and RNA sensors cGAS and RIG-I, respectively. We show that ectopic expression of UL35 diminishes the type I IFN response, ...
Tópico(s): Immune Cell Function and Interaction
2020 - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute | Microorganisms
Ermal Elbasani, Siriporn Pattamaset, Jae Sung Choi,
The primary function of radio-frequency identification (RFID) technology is automated identification and data capture (AIDC). RFID systems are widely applied in current industries due to guarantee of decrease in cost and size and increase in reliability and performance. New industrial revolution, as known as Industry 4.0, is based on the evolutions and conversions of core technologies, such as Internet of Things, big data, artificial intelligence, mobile, and cloud. This article aims to address and ...
Tópico(s): IoT and Edge/Fog Computing
2019 - Springer International Publishing | EAI/Springer Innovations in Communication and Computing
Katarina Tadić, Arolda Elbasani,
Why has the internationally promoted Weberian-style bureaucracy failed to replace patronage as the dominant principle of state organization in post-war Kosovo? This article explores how international actors' rule-promotion activities and local actors' strategies of resistance play out and interact to explain the failure. The empirical analysis focuses on rules of recruitment in the civil service system in the period 2000–2016. The analysis juxtaposes two consecutive stages of the state-building ...
Tópico(s): Balkans: History, Politics, Society
2018 - Routledge | Journal of Southeast European and Black Sea Studies
Post-war Kosovo has been the subject of a highly intrusive international state-building project, including an unprecedented influx of international administrators, assistance and funds. However, it increasingly bears the hallmark of a weak and captured state. This special issue contributes theoretical and empirical insights that shed light on possible explanations, difficulties and prospects of the state-building project in Kosovo. Theoretically, we investigate how international and local explanations ...
Tópico(s): Gender, Security, and Conflict
2018 - Routledge | Journal of Southeast European and Black Sea Studies
Silvia Gramolelli, Jianpin Cheng, Inés Martínez‐Corral, Markus Vähä‐Koskela, Endrit Elbasani, Elisa Kaivanto, Ville Rantanen, Krista Tuohinto, Sampsa Hautaniemi, Mark Bower, Caj Haglund, Kari Alitalo, Taija Mäkinen, Tatiana V. Petrova, Kaisa Lehti, Päivi M. Ojala,
The transcription factor PROX1 is essential for development and cell fate specification. Its function in cancer is context-dependent since PROX1 has been shown to play both oncogenic and tumour suppressive roles. Here, we show that PROX1 suppresses the transcription of MMP14, a metalloprotease involved in angiogenesis and cancer invasion, by binding and suppressing the activity of MMP14 promoter. Prox1 deletion in murine dermal lymphatic vessels in vivo and in human LECs increased MMP14 expression. ...
Tópico(s): Vascular Tumors and Angiosarcomas
2018 - Nature Portfolio | Scientific Reports
Arolda Elbasani, Senada Šelo Šabić,
Why has the European Union's (EU's) promotion of rule of law (RoL) triggered different and largely surface-thin reforms across countries subject to a similar frame of enlargement in the Western Balkans (WB)? We hypothesize that the domestic (non-)enforcement of EU-promoted rules depends on the mobilization of politically autonomous constituencies of change – organized advocacy groups and autonomous state institutions – which enable democratic accountability. The empirical investigation focuses on the prosecution ...
Tópico(s): Corruption and Economic Development
2017 - Routledge | Journal of European Public Policy
Nadine Thiel, Jasmin Zischke, Endrit Elbasani, Penelope C. Kay-Fedorov, Martin Messerle,
The receptor tyrosine phosphatase CD45 is expressed on the surface of almost all cells of hematopoietic origin. CD45 functions are central to the development of T cells and determine the threshold at which T and B lymphocytes can become activated. Given this pivotal role of CD45 in the immune system, it is probably not surprising that viruses interfere with the activity of CD45 in lymphocytes to dampen the immune response and that they also utilize this molecule to accomplish their replication cycle. ...
Tópico(s): Cytomegalovirus and herpesvirus research
2015 - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute | Viruses
Abstract This article analyzes how the Muslim majority has engaged with, and contributed to parallel processes of democratization and European integration in post-Communist Albania. The assessment of Muslims' choices focuses on the Central organization, the Albanian Muslim Community, which is recognized by the state as the only authority in charge of all the administrative and spiritual issues pertinent to the community of Sunni believers, and serves as the main hub of respective religious activities ...
Tópico(s): Balkans: History, Politics, Society
2015 - Cambridge University Press | Politics and Religion
The Islamic 'revival' in the Balkans has raised many questions among mainstream politicians and academics, who tend to look at religion as a repository of ethno-national identities, and hence a risky 'depot', furthering divisions between and among national entities. How believers themselves discover, articulate and experience their faith is often lost in the grand narratives of nations' assumed uniformity and the related criteria of inclusion and exclusion. This article shifts the analytical and empirical ...
Tópico(s): Religion and Society Interactions
2015 - Routledge | Journal of Southeast European and Black Sea Studies
Tópico(s): European Union Policy and Governance
2014 - British Institute of International and Comparative Law | Common Market Law Review
Ildar Gabaev, Endrit Elbasani, Stefanie Ameres, Lars Steinbrück, Richard J. Stanton, Marius Döring, T. Rovis, Ulrich Kalinke, Stipan Jonjić, Andreas Moosmann, Martin Messerle,
The human cytomegalovirus (CMV) UL11 open reading frame (ORF) encodes a putative type I transmembrane glycoprotein which displays remarkable amino acid sequence variability among different CMV isolates, suggesting that it represents an important virulence factor. In a previous study, we have shown that UL11 can interact with the cellular receptor tyrosine phosphatase CD45, which has a central role for signal transduction in T cells, and treatment of T cells with large amounts of a soluble UL11 protein ...
Tópico(s): Toxoplasma gondii Research Studies
2014 - American Society for Microbiology | Journal of Virology
Rrapo Ormeni, Siasi Kociu, Akli Fundo, Shkëlqim Daja, Viktor Doda,
... earthquakes occurred in the Lezha-Ulqini and Lushnje-Elbasani-Dibra seismogenic zones in Albania. The earthquake of ...
Tópico(s): High-pressure geophysics and materials
2013 - Società geologica italiana | Italian Journal of Geosciences
During the 1990s, the Western Balkans have dominated academic attention as a region of violent conflicts and delayed transitions when compared to the smooth and peaceful transformations elsewhere in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). However, the region’s reputation as Europe’s ‘trouble-making periphery’ promised to change at the turn of the 2000s, when the European Union (EU) expanded its concept of enlargement to include all Balkan countries left out of the previous wave of enlargement. The EU’s ‘unequivocal ...
Tópico(s): Balkans: History, Politics, Society
2013 - RELX Group (Netherlands) | SSRN Electronic Journal
Tópico(s): Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies
2013 - Routledge | Journal of Southeast European and Black Sea Studies
François Jouanne, Jean‐Louis Mugnier, Rexhep Koçi, S. Bushati, K. Matev, Neki Kuka, Ilir Shinko, Siasi Kociu, Llambro Duni,
... zone in Central Albania and western Macedonia (Diber-Elbasani fault) appears to be mainly affected by a ...
Tópico(s): High-pressure geophysics and materials
2012 - Elsevier BV | Tectonophysics
Xu Lei, Pedro A. Valdés‐Sosa, Dezhong Yao,
... behavior based on Bi-LSTMPhataratah Sa-nguannarm, Ermal Elbasani and Jeong-Dong Kim23 Feb 2023 | Technology and ...
Tópico(s): Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
2012 - Imperial College Press | Journal of Integrative Neuroscience
At the turn of more than a decade of violent and rather uncertain transitions to democracy, the EU has envisaged a new vision for the Balkans.1 It promises to transform the countries in the region ...
Tópico(s): Post-Soviet Geopolitical Dynamics
2008 - Routledge | Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans
This article seeks to uncover the impact of the EU in the Albanian political transformations. Approaching the EU impact on Albanian political reforms as a process of country's socialization to the norms institutionalised in the European environment, this study dwells on both the external and domestic factors that determine the mechanisms of norm assertion in the domestic area. The first part specifies the set of external conditions and the intervening domestic variables that induce a logic of consequentiality ...
Tópico(s): European Politics and Security
2004 - RELX Group (Netherlands) | SSRN Electronic Journal
Aurela Shtiza, Artan Tashko, Rudy Swennen, Adelheit Brande,
... An investigation of the metallurgical complex surroundings in Elbasani, Albania used background samples to rule out the ... in the vicinity of the metallurgical complex of Elbasani are at the highest risk of exposure. Concerns ...
Tópico(s): Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping
2009 - De Gruyter Open | Open Geosciences
Ermal Elbasani, Jeong‐Dong Kim,
Life-Log is a term used for the daily monitoring of health conditions and recognizing anomalies from data generated by sensor devices. The development of smart sensors enables collection of health data, which can be considered as a solution to risks associated with personal healthcare by raising awareness regarding health conditions and wellness. Therefore, Life-Log analysis methods are important for real-life monitoring and anomaly detection. This study proposes a method for the improvement and ...
Tópico(s): Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare
2021 - Hindawi Publishing Corporation | Journal of Healthcare Engineering
Ermal Elbasani, Soualihou Ngnamsie Njimbouom, Tae‐Jin Oh, Eung-Hee Kim, Hyun Lee, Jeong‐Dong Kim,
Compound-protein interaction prediction is necessary to investigate health regulatory functions and promotes drug discovery. Machine learning is becoming increasingly important in bioinformatics for applications such as analyzing protein-related data to achieve successful solutions. Modeling the properties and functions of proteins is important but challenging, especially when dealing with predictions of the sequence type.We propose a method to model compounds and proteins for compound-protein interaction ...
Tópico(s): Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks
2021 - BioMed Central | BMC Bioinformatics
Arolda Elbasani, Jelena Tošić,
This special issue investigates contemporary transformations of Islam in the post-Communist Balkans. We put forward the concept of localized Islam as an analytical lens that aptly captures the input of various interpreting agents, competing narratives, and choices of faith. By adopting an agent-based approach that is sensitive to relevant actors’ choices and the contexts where they operate, we explore how various groups negotiate and ultimately localize the grand Islamic tradition, depending on ...
Tópico(s): Balkans: History, Politics, Society
2017 - Cambridge University Press | Nationalities Papers
Endrit Elbasani, Ildar Gabaev, Lars Steinbrück, Martin Messerle, Eva Maria Borst,
Human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) has a large 240 kb genome that may encode more than 700 gene products with many of them remaining uncharacterized. Mutagenesis of bacterial artificial chromosome (BAC)-cloned CMV genomes has greatly facilitated the analysis of viral gene functions. However, the roles of essential proteins often remain particularly elusive because their investigation requires the cumbersome establishment of suitable complementation systems. Here, we show that HCMV genomes can be introduced ...
Tópico(s): Virus-based gene therapy research
2014 - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute | Viruses
Prasansah Shrestha, Minsu Kim, Ermal Elbasani, Jeong‐Dong Kim, Tae‐Jin Oh,
Abstract Background Metabolism including anabolism and catabolism is a prerequisite phenomenon for all living organisms. Anabolism refers to the synthesis of the entire compound needed by a species. Catabolism refers to the breakdown of molecules to obtain energy. Many metabolic pathways are undisclosed and many organism-specific enzymes involved in metabolism are misplaced. When predicting a specific metabolic pathway of a microorganism, the first and foremost steps is to explore available online ...
Tópico(s): Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
2022 - BioMed Central | BMC Genomic Data