Date palm (Phoenix dactylifera L.) is a monocot, dioecious and high longevity tropical plant greatly considered due to its high economic importance in Middle East. This investigation was carried out to detect genetic relations among 34 cultivars of Iranian date palm, both males and females, using ISSR markers. Accordingly, total DNA was extracted using CTAB method and was subjected to PCR ampli...

1 Auto-generated Thesaurus Thesaurus is not only a useful resource to help understand related words and phrases in a document , it can also catalog correlation between words across multiple domains that were previously not obvious. For example, the word " mouse " in a document about animals is related to " cat " and " rabbit " , while in an article from a different domain it may relate with the...

Many defense, homeland security, and commercial security objectives require continuous tracking of mobile entities. The systems that perform these functions produce information products called tracks. A track associates observations with the mobile entity and typically includes position, velocity, and other similar attributes. Military systems have sophisticated tracking and track fusion proces...

This paper introduces a measure we call “demand transfer ratio” (DTR) that is useful metric for inferring and communicating important market impacts associated with new product introductions. We show the sign magnitude of demand ratio can be used to infer whether presence goods expanded aggregate in relevant and/or have demand-cannibalizing effect on pre-existing products. In principle, our uni...

INTRODUCTION Medical professionalism is a core competency for emergency medicine (EM) trainees; but defining professionalism remains challenging, leading to difficulties creating objectives and performing assessment. Because professionalism is dynamic, culture-specific, and often taught by modeling, an exploration of trainees' perceptions can highlight their educational baseline and elucidate t...

UrbanCrowns is a software program developed by the USDA Forest Service that computes crown attributes using a side-view digital photograph and a few basic field measurements. From an operational standpoint, it is not known how well the software performs under varying photographic conditions for trees of diverse size, which could impact measurement reproducibility and therefore software utility....

improved quality, healthiness, and variety in their food (Verbeke 2005, IDDBA 2008). Accordingly, demand for agri-food products with credence attributes (e.g., place of origin, organic, locally grown, environment-friendly, and fair trade) is increasing rapidly (Nimon and Beghin 1999, Loureiro and Umberger 2007, Basu and Hicks 2008, Darby et al. 2008, Kanter, Messer, and Kaiser 2008, Froelich, C...