Time-Delay-Estimation (TDE) has been a topic of interest in many applications in the past few decades. The emphasis of this work is on the application of model-based estimation (MBE) for TDE of ultrasonic signals used in ultrasonic thickness gaging. Ultrasonic thickness gaging is based on precise measurement of the time difference between successive echoes which reflect back from the back wall ...

GENETICS, SOCIAL SCIENCES Retraction for ‘‘PKNOX2 gene is significantly associated with substance dependence in European-origin women,’’ by Xiang Chen, Kelly Cho, Burton H. Singer, and Heping Zhang, which published online August 31, 2009, in Proc Natl Acad Sci USA (10.1073/pnas.0908521106). The authors wish to retract this paper because its publication violates the Gene Environment Association ...

this experiment was conducted in 2012 at the research field of alborz research station, research institute of forests and rangelands, karaj, iran, to study the effect of chemical and biological fertilizers on sage (salvia officinalis l.) and replacing biofertilizers instead of high doses of chemical fertilizers. the experiment was conducted in factorial in the form of a randomized complete bloc...

Greater sage-grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) have been declining both spatially and numerically throughout their range because of anthropogenic disturbance and loss and fragmentation of sagebrush (Artemisia spp.) habitats. Understanding how sage-grouse respond to these habitat alterations and disturbances, particularly the types of disturbances and extent at which they respond, is critical t...

We present a powerful application of ultra high-throughput sequencing, SAGE-Seq, for the accurate quantification of normal and neoplastic mammary epithelial cell transcriptomes. We develop data analysis pipelines that allow the mapping of sense and antisense strands of mitochondrial and RefSeq genes, the normalization between libraries, and the identification of differentially expressed genes. ...

An essential step in Serial Analysis of Gene Expression (SAGE) is tag mapping, which refers to the unambiguous determination of the gene represented by a SAGE tag. Current resources for tag mapping are incomplete, and thus do not allow assessment of the efficacy of SAGE in transcript identification. A method of tag mapping is described here and applied to the Drosophila melanogaster and Caenorh...

allelopathic plants, because of reduction in herbicide uses, are important in weed management. the allelopathic effects of sage salvia officinalis and white wormwood artemisia sieberi water extract were evaluated on germination and seedling growth of redroot pigweed amaranthus retroflexus at concentration of 0, 5, 10, 15, and 20% in controlled conditions. anova revealed that the extract concent...

In this paper, the serial interference cancellation (SIC) technique and the frequency domain SAGE (FD-SAGE) algorithm are jointly used to detect and estimate the radio channel parameters of interest. The implementation of the SAGE algorithm in the frequency domain is novel. Furthermore, the parallel interference cancellation (PIC) technique in the standard SAGE algorithm is replaced by the SIC ...