Jute is an important crop of the Indian subcontinent and comprises tossa jute (Corchorus olitorius) and white jute (C. capsularis). The yield and fi ber quality of this crop remained stagnant for many years and could not be improved through conventional plant breeding. Also, no effort has been made to develop molecular markers on a scale required for marker-assisted selection (MAS) to supplemen...

Since its experimental isolation in 2004, graphene has shown some outstanding properties. We propose that graphene can be used as an oxidation barrier coating and its oxidation resistance weakens at the graphene grain boundaries. Copper is a superior conductor but is easily oxidized in air at room temperature or higher. Using graphene as a coating material may reduce the cost of protecting agai...

(ABSTRACT) As chip vendors are increasingly manufacturing a new generation of multi-processor chips called multicores, improving software performance requires exposing greater concurrency in software. Since code that must be run sequentially is often due to the need for synchronization , the synchronization abstraction has a significant effect on program performance. Lock-based synchronization ...

Scanning tunneling microscopes (STMs) and atomic force microscopes (AFMs), known under the expression scanning probe microscope (SPM), are well established methods to analyze surfaces, and the principle of their operation is published widely [1-3]. In AFM a point probe reacts mechanically on interatomic forces of the sample and generates a topographic view of the surface with an atomic resoluti...

Despite the surge of support for on farm conservation of plant genetic resources on global scale, no agreed set of scientific principles yet exists for its effective implementation. Farming communities in traditional agroecosystem have been playing an important role in conserving agricultural diversity and assessment at genetic level is a prerequisite for understanding detrimental evolutionary ...

Several methods can be used to treat patients with epilepsy: antiepileptic drugs(AED), surgery and neuromodulation. AED is the most common method and also the first choice in the treatment of epilepsy. However, some patients are drug-resistant, or encounter severe adverse effects. In this case, surgery is an alternative to drug therapy for part of these patients. But surgery has several drawbac...

We present a brief history of the development of scanning tunneling microscopy (STM). These microscopes, developed in 1981 by Gerd Binnig and Heinrich Rohrer (Nobel prize 1986), are capable of imaging and manipulating at an atomic level. STMs, and the group of instruments corporately referred to as scanning probe microscopes that evolved from them, are part of the instrumentation that has enabl...

We describe an intermediate language designed as a medium-level internal representation of programs of the interactive music system Antescofo. This representation is independent both of the Antescofo source language and of the architecture of the execution platform. It is used in tasks such as verification of timings, model-based conformance testing, static control-flow analysis or simulation. ...

Previous scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) experiments have produced several images of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) molecules, but never that of DNA in the act of replicating. We present such an image, obtained on an uncoated and unlabeled molecule extracted during replication from the cell. The results were highly reproducible, and generally consistent with previously reported cases of STM im...