The present study investigates the potential use of the scrapie-protective Q211 S146 and K222 caprine PRNP alleles as targets for selective breeding in Greek goats. Genotyping data from a high number of healthy goats with special emphasis on bucks, revealed high frequencies of these alleles, while the estimated probabilities of disease occurrence in animals carrying these alleles were low, sugg...

The incidence of different components of language in natural language texts are not arbitrarily organized but tend to obey particular laws which enable us to explain characteristic features of human language. The present paper is an attempt to analyse and model the pattern of occurrence of words in the Hindi language. Various kinds of corpora have been selected from different sources for the st...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Blood incompatibility arises from individual and ethnic differences in red blood cell (RBC) antigen profiles. This underlines the importance of documenting RBC antigen variability in various ethnic groups. Central Asia is an area with a long and complex migratory history. The purpose of this article is to describe key antigen frequencies of Afghan ethnic groups in the ...

DNA repair genes are frequently mutated in cancer, yet limited data exist regarding the overall genomic landscape and functional implications of these alterations in their entirety. We created comprehensive lists of DNA repair genes and indirect caretakers. Mutation, copy number variation (CNV), and expression frequencies of these genes were analyzed in COSMIC. Mutation co-occurrence, clinical ...

109 patients (62 boys/men and 47 girls/women) suffering from bronchial asthma induced by pollen allergens were typed for HLA-DRB1 and -DQBl alleles, respectively, by a low resolution SSP technique. Frequencies of DRB1 alleles varied from 0.5 % to 16.1 %. The most frequent was HLA-DRB1*11 (16.1 %), the least frequent HLA-DRB1*09 (0.4 %). Occurrence rates of HLA-DQB1 alleles ranged from 2.3 % to ...

Approach: The approach presented here uses the results psychophysical models to provide constraints on a statistical sampling procedure. In a two-phase process, the input texture is first analyzed by measuring the joint occurrence, across multiple resolutions, of several of the features used in psychophysical models. In the second phase, a new texture is synthesized by sampling successive spati...

Background: Systemic lupus erythematosus is a systemic autoimmune disorder with unclear etiology. The importance of some genes in the development of systemic lupus erythematosus has been implicated. The gene polymorphism in codon 72 has attracted a lot of attention and its role in the occurrence or progression of many cancers and autoimmune diseases especially systemic lupus erythematosus has ...

CRFs are discriminative undirected models which are globally normalized. Global normalization preserves CRFs from the label bias problem which most local models suffer from. Recently proposed co-occurrence rate networks (CRNs) are also discriminative undirected models. In contrast to CRFs, CRNs are locally normalized. It was established that CRNs are immune to the label bias problem even they a...

The critical temperatures at which irregularities appear in the relations between vital processes and temperature are not distributed at random. As based upon detailed knowledge of individual cases, and as derived from inspection of the frequencies of occurrence, these critical points are usually found to be in the neighborhood of 4.5 degrees , 9 degrees , 15 degrees , 20 degrees , 25 degrees ,...

We show results from NSO/Sacramento Peak data to discuss three issues: (i)—the spatial occurrence of chromospheric 3–min oscillations; (ii)—the validity of Ca II H&K line-center Doppler Shift measurements; (iii)—the significance of oscillation power and phase at frequencies above 10 mHz.