background: discovery of short cell free fetal dna (cffdna) fragments in maternal plasma has created major changes in the field of prenatal diagnosis. the use of cffdna to set up noninvasive prenatal test is limited due to the low concentration of fetal dna in maternal plasma therefore, employing a high efficiency extraction method leads to more accurate results. the aim of this study was to ev...

a very simple, rapid and sensitive dispersive liquid-liquid microextraction (dllme) followed by gas chromatography and flame ionization detection (gc-fid) was developed for the determination of phenol and carvacrol in honey samples. a mixture of 100 µl dichloromethane (extraction solvent) and 0.5 ml acetonitrile (disperser solvent) was rapidly injected into sample solution. thereby a cloudy sol...

Microwave-assisted and ultrasound-assisted extraction assays were used to isolate total flavonoids (TF) from Osmanthus fragrans flowers. The effects of the solid-liquid ratio, ethanol concentration, microwave power, microwave extraction time, ultrasonic power and ultrasonic extraction time on the yield of TF were studied. A sequential combination of microwave- and ultrasound-assisted extraction...

gelatin is a protein hydrocolloid. because of its unique characteristics such as gel forming, thickening, stabilizing, emulsifiing, foam and film forming, is widely used in food industries. in this research, in order to optimize the factors which affect enzymatic extraction method of gelatin ,the effects of three variables, enzyme concentrations(2-10 ppm), time(8-16 hours) and temperature(60-80...

This paper present the participation of Information Retrieval Lab(IR LAB DA-IICT Gandhinagar) in FIRE 2016 Microblog Track. The main objective of the track is to identify Information Retrieval methodologies to retrieve important information from Twitter posted during the disasters. We have submitted two runs for this track. In the first run, daiict irlab 1, we have expanded topic term using Wor...

This paper presents a robust lane marking detection algorithm suited for a large variety of traffic scenarios, under various lighting conditions. The algorithm detects dark-light-dark transitions using an improved method for horizontal gradient computation, which accounts for the expected marking width and for the perspective effect by means of a variable size filter. The computation of the var...

We present a computational methodology for qualitative analysis of sparse and noisy time series. Information about the changes of the signal level within a time series and the number of distinguishable signal levels is extracted and condensed into a pattern string. The qualitative analysis of a time series can be done at several levels of detail to generate pattern strings that encode the seque...

This paper proposes state-of-the-art models for time-event relation extraction (TERE). The models are specifically designed to work effectively with relations that span multiple sentences and paragraphs, i.e., inter-sentence TERE. Our main idea is: (i) to build a computational representation of the context of the two target relation arguments, and (ii) to encode it as structural features in Sup...

In plants, secondary metabolites and polysaccharides interfere with genomic isolation procedures and downstream reactions such as restriction enzyme analysis and gene amplification. The removal of such contaminants needs complicated and time-consuming protocols. In this study, a simple, rapid and efficient method for leaf DNA extraction was optimized. This method use small amount of plant mater...