Due to narrow genetic base of groundnut (Arachis hypogaea L.), induction of genetic variability was undertaken by treating seeds of TFDRG 5 with 200 and 300 Gy of gamma rays and with 1, 2 and 3 mM of sodium azide (NaN 3 ) singly and in combination. The combination of 200 Gy and 3 mM of NaN 3 induced maximum number of mutants with a frequency of 2.48% in M 2 generation. In all, 63 true breeding ...

The main drawbacks of the Hough transform (HT) are the heavy requirement of computation and storage. To improve the drawbacks of the HT, the randomized Hough transform (RHT) was proposed. But the RHT is not suitable for detecting the pattern with the complex image because the probability is too low. In this paper, we propose a fast randomized Hough transform for circle/circular arc detection. W...

Spaced seeds have been recently shown to not only detect more alignments, but also to give a more accurate measure of phylogenetic distances, and to provide a lower misclassification rate when used with Support Vector Machines (SVMs). We confirm by independent experiments these two results, and propose in this article to use a coverage criterion to measure the seed efficiency in both cases in o...

Supposing k is equal to the true mixture number k 1⁄4 3, we randomly located three seed points m1, m2, and m3 in the input space as shown in Fig. 2a, where the data constitute three well-separated clusters. Moreover, we initialized each of the js to be an identity matrix, and all js to be zero, i.e., we initialized 1 1⁄4 2 1⁄4 3 1⁄4 13 . Also, we set the learning rates 1⁄4 0:001 and 1⁄4 0:0001....

We review the applications of structured expert judgment uncertainty quantification using the "classical model" developed at the Delft University of Technology over the last 17 years (Cooke, 1991). These involve 45 expert panels, performed under contract with problem owners who reviewed and approved the results. With a few exceptions, all these applications involved the use of seed variables; t...

Carbonic anhydrase (CA; EC 4.2.1.1) catalyzes the interconversion of CO2 and HCO3(-) and is a major protein constituent of the C3 higher plant chloroplast where it is presumed to play a role in photosynthetic carbon assimilation. In this study, we have used both RNA antisense and gene knockout lines to specifically reduce the activity of the chloroplast betaCA1 polypeptide (At3g01500) in the mo...