Proposed in 1962, the Hough transform (HT) has been widely applied and investigated for detecting curves, shapes, and motions in the fields of image processing and computer vision. However, the HT has several shortcomings, including high computational cost, low detection accuracy, vulnerability to noise, and possibility of missing objects. Many efforts target at solving some of the problems for...

Genetic relationships between plant height and root morphology were investigated in a diverse set of wheat germplasm [199 double-haploid progeny derived from a cross between Avalon and Cadenza (Triticum aestivum L.), Rht near-isogenic lines (NILs), and accessions from the Watkins Collection] to investigate whether Rht genes controlling shoot height also control seedling root growth. A germinati...

Mammalian circadian rhythms generated in the hypothalamic suprachiasmatic nuclei are entrained to the environmental light/dark cycle via a monosynaptic pathway, the retinohypothalamic tract (RHT). We have shown previously that retinal ganglion cells containing pituitary adenylate cyclase-activating polypeptide (PACAP) constitute the RHT. Light activates the RHT via unknown photoreceptors differ...

Hexaploid bread wheat contains A, B, and D three subgenomes with its well-characterized ancestral genomes existed at diploid and tetraploid levels, making the wheat act as a good model species for studying evolutionary genomic dynamics. Here, we performed intra- and inter-species comparative analyses of wheat and related grass genomes to examine the dynamics of homologous regions surrounding Rh...

The Green Revolution (GR) of the 1960s saw spectacular increases in cereal crop yields, enabled by widespread adoption high-yielding semi-dwarf varieties and increased fertilizer use. Semi-dwarfism is caused mutant wheat Reduced height-1 (Rht-1) rice semi-dwarf1 (sd1) alleles, respectively, which confer harvest index (grain to straw ratio) reduced yield loss from “lodging” (flattening crops win...

Convection, conduction, and thermal radiation are the three mechanisms of heat transfer in nature. The lattice Boltzmann model (LBM) has already achieved great success dealing with convection conduction problems. However, mature LBM for radiative (RHT) is still relatively lacking. Here we propose a mesoscopic RHT graded-index media, which enables simple efficient solution both transient steady-...

Aim. To evaluate the severity of coronary atherosclerosis and its association with biochemical markers fibrosis in patients artery disease (CAD) resistant hypertension (RHT). Material methods . The study included 39 CAD RHT. All underwent 24-hour blood pressure (BP) monitoring, office BP numbers were measured. Laboratory diagnostics routine tests, as well determination serum lipocalin, plasma c...

Background: Radiation-induced hypothyroidism (RHT) is one of the side effects that might have an impact on quality life patients with breast cancer treated radiotherapy. Objectives: The aim current study was to evaluate performances Lyman-Kutcher-Burman (LKB) and Log-Logistic models in prediction (HT) as well estimation model parameters for incidence RHT among cancer. Methods: Fifty-two radiati...

Contact-sports can elicit concussions, which impacts autonomic function, as well repetitive head trauma, where function has not yet been assessed. Purpose To determine if differences in exist among three groups (CTRL: healthy non-contact-sport participant; RHT: trauma contact-sport CONC: previous concussion). Methods Forty men (16) and women (24), aged 18-37 (22±3), participated. Participants w...