Aflatoxin contamination caused by the opportunistic pathogen A. flavus is a major concern in maize production prior to harvest and through storage. Previous studies have highlighted the constitutive production of proteins involved in maize kernel resistance against A. flavus' infection. However, little is known about induced resistance nor about defense gene expression and regulation in kernels...

it is well established that the seismic ground response of surface topographies may differ from those of free field motion during earthquakes. complex nature of seismic wave scattering by topographical structures can only be solved accurately and economically using advanced numerical methods under realistic conditions. among the numerical methods, the boundary element is a powerful numerical te...

In this paper the accuracy of two machine learning algorithms including SVM and Bayesian Network are investigated as two important algorithms in diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease. We use Parkinson's disease data in the University of California, Irvine (UCI). In order to optimize the SVM algorithm, different kernel functions and C parameters have been used and our results show that SVM with C par...

Chemical characteristics, fatty acid composition, antioxidant and antimicrobial activities ofPrunus armeniaca kernel oil were evaluated in this study. The hexane extracts of kernel of P.armeniaca, which were collected from northwestern Iran, were obtained by Soxhlet apparatus.The fatty acids were derived to methyl esters and determined by gas chromatography/flameionization detector (GC/FID) and...

Monitoring and controlling air quality parameters form an important subject of atmospheric and environmental research today due to the health impacts caused by the different pollutants present in the urban areas. The support vector machine (SVM), as a supervised learning analysis method, is considered an effective statistical tool for the prediction and analysis of air quality. The work present...

Rice blast disease, caused by the fungus Pyricularia oryzae, is one of diseases that reduce rice yields in Thailand. The fungus’s dispersal influences this disease outbreak. This study aims to develop a mathematical model for spore dispersion, namely non-local diffusion equation terms kernel, adding factor causes dispersion due rain splash and adjusting infection term based on weather condition...