Approximately 80 long interspersed element (LINE-1 or L1) copies are able to retrotranspose actively in the human genome, and these are termed retrotransposition-competent L1s. The 5' untranslated region (UTR) of the human-specific L1 contains an internal promoter and several transcription factor binding sites. To better understand the effect of the L1 5' UTR on the evolution of human-specific ...

N color palette—the changing sky, autumn leaves, the tinted irises of beloved eyes—has allured human interest since time immemorial. Scientific advances over the past twenty years have led to a far better understanding of the relevance and physiological basis of color experience than ever before. Recent research in molecular genetics, color perception and cognitive psychology is clarifying the ...

A novel scheme for the watermarking of color images is presented in this communication. An attempt has been made to find the most appropriate alternative to the RGB color space. Color spaces with linear relation to the RGB color space with uncorrelated components are found to be most suitable for watermarking. Another objective has been to propose an adaptive watermarking scheme for any type of...

When a color video system with highly accurate color reproduction is designed, a good measure is required for evaluating the image quality including the color reproduction. There are some degradation sources in a total imaging system from image acquisition to image reproduction. Color random noise is one of major degradations which is often added in image capture phase. In this paper, we invest...

As robotics research expands into multiagent tasks and learning, investigators need new tools for evaluating the artiicial robot societies they study. Is it enough, for example, just to say a team is \hetero-geneous?" Perhaps heterogeneity is more properly viewed on a sliding scale. To address these issues this paper presents new metrics for learning robot teams. The metrics evaluate diversity ...

The wild mint "Mentha longifolia (L.) Hudson subsp. noeana (Briq.) Briq." is an important medicinal plant which contains several worthy components like: menthone, pulegone, pipertenon, menthol, thymol, and carvone in its essential oil. This plant grows extensively in center of Asia including Iran. Because of so worthy components and its big role in traditional and modern medicine, the wild mint...

A debate is raging in workplaces, schools, universities, and political and legal arenas: Is it better to ignore or acknowledge group differences? Multiculturalism, a pluralistic ideology, stresses recognizing and celebrating group differences, whereas color blindness, an assimilationist ideology, stresses ignoring or minimizing group differences. Both ideologies arguably advocate for equality, ...

We propose a novel method to analyze a sequence of color images. A series of color images is examined in a four-dimensional space, which we call the temporal-color space, whose axes are the three color axes red, green, and blue and one temporal axis. The significance of the temporal-color space lies in its ability to represent the change of image color with time. A conventional color space anal...