The dispersal unit of wild wheat bears two prominent filaments called awns. The awns bend as they dry and straighten in a damp environment. This hygroscopic movement is explained by the orientation of the cellulose fibrils that build the cell wall, as follows. The stiff fibrils are embedded in a soft hygroscopic matrix. When the cell wall dries, the matrix shrinks but the fibrils do not. Theref...

Seminal plasma ingredients are important for maintenance of sperm viability. This study focuses on the effect of boar seminal plasma exosomes on sperm function during long-term liquid storage. Boar seminal plasma exosomes had typical nano-structure morphology as measured by scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and molecular markers such as AWN, CD9 and CD63 by western blot analysis. The effect on...

This paper proposes a method for electrocardiogram (ECG) heartbeat detection and recognition using adaptive wavelet network (AWN). The ECG beat recognition can be divided into a sequence of stages, starting with feature extraction from QRS complexes, and then according to characteristic features to identify the cardiac arrhythmias including the supraventricular ectopic beat, bundle branch ectop...

This paper deals with the development of a platform for Asian WordNet (AWN) construction. Not only for the diversity of the languages using in Asia, we also need a platform that can connect the distributedly developing WordNet to establish a network for the cross language WordNet. Each WordNet is created independently by referring to the original Princeton WordNet (PWN) as the focal representat...

This paper reports on the development of the prototype African Wordnet (AWN) which currently includes four languages. The resource has been developed by translating Common Base Concepts from English, and currently holds roughly 42 000 synsets. We describe here how some language specific and technical challenges have been overcome and discuss efforts to localise the content of the wordnet and qu...

Many traits play essential roles in determining crop yield. Wide variation for morphological traits exists in Hordeum vulgare L., but the genetic basis of this morphological variation is largely unknown. To understand genetic basis controlling morphological traits affecting yield, a barley doubled haploid population (146 individuals) derived from Clipper × Sahara 3771 was used to map chromosome...

An ad hoc wireless network (AWN) is a collection of mobile hosts forming a temporary network on the fly, without using any fixed infrastructure. Characteristics of AWNs such as lack of central coordination, mobility of hosts, dynamically varying network topology, and limited availability of resources make QoS provisioning very challenging in such networks. In this paper, we describe the issues ...

Reformulating the user query is a technique that aims to improve the performance of an Information Retrieval System (IRS) in terms of precision and recall. This paper tries to evaluate the technique of query reformulation guided by an external resource for Arabic texts. To do this, various precision and recall measures were conducted and two corpora with different external resources like Arabic...