the yield performance of 23 barley (hordeum vulgare l.) genotypes in sixteen test environments across a barley growing region of china was evaluated. the experiment was conducted using a randomized complete block design with three replicates, in two cropping seasons (2010-2011, in the south; 2012-2013, in the north). the gge biplot was applied to analyze the data obtained in the multi-environme...

The McMaster framework introduced by Kirshner & Guyatt is the dominant paradigm for the development of measures of health status and health-related quality of life (HRQL). The framework defines the functions of such instruments as evaluative, predictive or discriminative. Evaluative instruments are required to be sensitive to change (responsiveness), but there is no corresponding index of the d...

We study the following three problems of computing generic or discriminating words for a given collection of documents. Given a pattern P and a threshold d, we want to report (i) all longest extensions of P which occur in at least d documents, (ii) all shortest extensions of P which occur in less than d documents, and (iii) all shortest extensions of P which occur only in d selected documents. ...

The calculation of centrality measures is common practice in the study of networks, as they attempt to quantify the importance of individual vertices, edges, or other components. Different centralities attempt to measure importance in different ways. In this paper, we examine a conjecture posed by E. Estrada regarding the ability of several measures to distinguish the vertices of networks. Estr...

A novel elastic graph matching procedure based on multiscale morphological operations, the so called morphological dynamic link architecture, is developed for frontal face authentication. Fast algorithms for implementing mathematical morphology operations are presented. Feature selection by employing linear projection algorithms is proposed. Discriminatory power coeecients that weigh the matchi...

Discriminating groups were introduced by G.Baumslag, A.Myasnikov and V.Remeslennikov as an outgrowth of their theory of algebraic geometry over groups. However they have taken on a life of their own and have been an object of a considerable amount of study. In this paper we survey the large array results concerning the class of discriminating groups that have been developed over the past decade.

Many visual learning tasks are usually confronted by some common diiculties. One of them is the lack of supervised information, due to the fact that labeling could be tedious, expensive or even impossible. Such scenario makes it challenging to learn object concepts from images. This problem could be alleviated by taking a hybrid of labeled and unlabeled training data for learning. Since the unl...

BACKGROUND We evaluated the discriminating capacity of the indole markers urinary 5-hydroxyindoleacetic acid (5-HIAA), urinary serotonin, and platelet serotonin in the diagnosis of carcinoid tumors. METHODS Indole markers were measured in 688 patients with suspected carcinoid disease. The initial values of indole markers from patients in whom a carcinoid tumor was confirmed during follow-up (...

Technology selection is an important part of management of technology. Recently Karsak and Ahiska (2005) proposed a novel common weight multiple criteria decision making (MCDM) methodology for selection of the best Advanced Manufacturing Technology (AMT) candidates based on a number of attributes. However, Amin et al. (2006), by means of a numerical example demonstrated the convergence difficul...

Background: Traditional dairy products are the main sources for probiotic bacteria. This study aimed to isolate and characterize the potentially probiotic Lactobacillus strains isolated from traditional dairy products in Iran. Methods: Microbial population of each dairy product was enriched and screened for acid- and bile- resistant strains. The isolates were ...