Re-identifying the same person in different images is a distinct challenge for visual surveillance systems. Building an accurate correspondence between highly variable images requires a suitable dissimilarity measure. To date, most existing measures have used adapted distance based on a learned metric. Unfortunately, real-world human image data, which tends to show large intra-class variations ...

Molecular germplasm characterization is essential for gathering information on favorable attributes and varietal improvement. The current study evaluated the genetic divergence population structure of 80 potato genotypes collected from Punjab, Pakistan, using polymorphic retrotransposon-DNA-based markers (iPBS). A total 11 iPBS primers generated 787 alleles with a mean value 8.9 per primer, whi...

A mathematical formulation for intensity-based slice-to-volume registration is proposed. The approach is flexible and accommodates various regularization schemes, similarity measures, and optimizers. The framework is evaluated by registering 2D and 3D cardiac magnetic resonance (MR) images obtained in vivo, aimed at realtime MR-guided applications. Rigid-body and affine transformations are used...

In an effort towards adapting new and defensible methods for assessing and managing the risk posed by microbial pollution, we evaluated the utility of oligonucleotide microarrays for bacterial source tracking (BST) of environmental Enterococcus sp. isolates derived from various host sources. Current bacterial source tracking approaches rely on various phenotypic and genotypic methods to identif...

Hierarchical agglomerative clustering (HAC) is a common clustering method that outputs a dendrogram showing all N levels of agglomerations where N is the number of objects in the data set. High time and memory complexities are some of the major bottlenecks in its application to real-world problems. In the literature parallel algorithms are proposed to overcome these limitations. But, as this pa...

'Secrete-and-sense cells' can communicate by secreting a signaling molecule while also producing a receptor that detects the molecule. The cell can potentially 'talk' to itself ('self-communication') or talk to neighboring cells with the same receptor ('neighbor communication'). The predominant forms of secrete-and-sense cells are self-communicating 'autocrine cells', which are largely found in...

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 investigate...