the genus hyoscyamus belongs to the tribe hyoscyameae miers of solanaceae family. variation in protein bands elaborates the relationship among the collections from various geographical regions. in this study the seed storage protein diversity of 19 accessions of hyoscyamus (h. niger, h. reticulatus and  h. pusillus) from west azerbaijan (iran) was investigated according to the sodium dodecyl su...

In order to solve the defect in the spatial outlier mining algorithm that the spatial objects may be affected by their surrounding abnormal neighbors, a Based K-Nearest Neighbor (BKNN) algorithm was proposed based on the working principle of KNN Graph, which could effectively identify the spatial outliers by using cutting edge strategies. The core idea of BKNN is to calculate the dissimilarity ...

Training discriminative classifiers for a large number of classes is a challenging problem due to increased ambiguities between classes. In order to better handle the ambiguities and to improve the scalability of classifiers to larger number of categories, we learn pairwise dissimilarity profiles (functions of spatial location) between categories and adapt them into nearest neighbor classificat...

Allelic patterns and genetic distances were examined in a collection of 103 foreign and Brazilian mango (Mangifera indica) accessions in order to develop a reference database to support cultivar protection and breeding programs. An UPGMA dendrogram was generated using Jaccard's coefficients from a distance matrix based on 50 alleles of 12 microsatellite loci. The base pair number was estimated ...

The aim of this paper 1 is to present an empirical evaluation on using class-dependent principle component analysis (PCA) for dissimilarity-based classifications (DBC) [18]. In DBC, the classification performance relies heavily on how well the dissimilarity space is constructed. In this paper, we study a way of constructing it in eigenspaces, spanned by the subset of principal eigenvectors, ext...

Methods for controlling the adaptation process of an on-line handwritten character recognizer are studied. The classifier is based on the k-nearest neighbor rule and it is adapted to a new writing style by adding new prototypes, inactivating confusing prototypes, and reshaping existing prototypes in a self-supervised fashion. The dissimilarity measure used for the comparison of characters is a ...

When microbes are subjected to temporal changes in nutrient availability, growth rate and substrate affinity can contribute to competitive fitness and thereby affect microbial community structure. This hypothesis was tested using planktonic bacterial communities exposed to nutrient additions at 1-, 3-, 7-, or 14-day intervals. Growth rates after nutrient addition were inversely proportional to ...

A novel genotyping method for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), the phage open-reading frames typing (POT) method, was evaluated using 92 MRSA isolates collected from blood cultures between 1991 and 2003 at Nagoya University Hospital. These strains were divided into 64 distinct POT types, classified into 21 genotypes by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) using SmaI, and a...