a study was conducted to identify ssr markers linked to leaf rust resistance genes lr24 and lr28 and to be used for marker-assisted selection (mas) to transfer both genes to a widely cultivated wheat variety mp 3299 under rainfed condition. f2 individuals of the cross mp 3299×nil pbw 343 were used for generating genotypic data employing closely linked scar markers s73719 and s421570 to lr24 and...

BACKGROUND Blood-based diagnostics has the potential to simplify the process of diagnosing celiac disease (CD). Although high levels of autoantibodies against tissue transglutaminase (anti-TG2) are strongly indicative of active CD, several other scenarios involve a need for additional blood-based CD markers. METHODS We investigated the levels of messenger RNA (mRNA) in whole blood (n = 49) an...

Automated cell imaging systems facilitate fast and reliable analysis of biological events at the cellular level. In these systems, the first step is usually cell segmentation that greatly affects the success of the subsequent system steps. On the other hand, similar to other image segmentation problems, cell segmentation is an ill-posed problem that typically necessitates the use of domain-spec...

The Marker Hypothesis was first defined by Thomas Green in 1979. It is a psycho-linguistic hypothesis defining that there is a set of words in every language that marks boundaries of phrases in a sentence. While it remains a hypothesis because nobody has proved it, tests have shows that results are comparable to basic shallow parsers with higher efficiency. The chunking algorithm based on the M...

This study examines the Arabic interface design elements that are largely influenced by the cultural values. Cultural markers are examined in websites from educational, business, and media. Cultural values analysis is based on Geert Hofstede’s cultural dimensions. The findings show that there are cultural markers which are largely influenced by the culture and that the Hofstede’s score for Arab...

Human decision making is a complex process. In the field of Artificial Intelligence, decision making is considered an essential aspect of autonomous agents. Research of human decision behaviour shows that emotions play a decisive role. We present a computational model for creating an emotional memory and an algorithm for decision making based on the collected information in the memory. We conce...

Two-dimensional visual code markers display bit-encoded information about nearby objects. To aid computer vision systems in extracting the bit patterns from images containing one or more markers, we developed a shape-based algorithm for detecting marker locations and orientations in order to identify the markers’ bit patterns. We show that the algorithm can correctly identify all bits for 12 tr...

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The analysis of author’s characteristic writing style and vocabulary has been used to uncover the identity of authors of documents by both manual linguistic approaches and automatic algorithmic methods. The revealing of the gender, name, or age can help to expose pedophiles in social networks, false product reviews on the Internet servers, or machine translations submitted as manually translate...