The chemotaxonomic significance of ergastic substances that are aligned systematically to the Amaranthaceae-Chenopodiaceae group and their prospective applications, such as the use of its starch for food, health and industrial uses, were assessed in the present study employing species from four genera: Amaranthus (Amaranthaceae), Chenopodium, Atriplex and Suaeda (Chenopodiaceae). Alkaloids, fat...

Japan’s economic clusters are characterized by their high level of diversity. In essence, Japanese economic clusters are not limited to single industries; they comprise numerous manufacturing industries and firms which cluster in specific heterogeneous economic zones, vice political boundaries. Japanese manufacturing sectors are showing an increased level of diversity, resulting in the spread o...

Lactobacillus casei LC2W, a patented probiotic strain (Z. Wu, European patent EP 1642963 B1, February 2009), has been isolated from Chinese traditional dairy products and implemented in industrial production as starter culture. Here we present the complete genome sequence of LC2W and the identification of a gene cluster implicated in the biosynthesis of exopolysaccharides.

In statistical data analysis it is often important to compare, classify, and cluster di¤erent time series. For these purposes various methods have been proposed in the literature, but they usually assume time series with the same sample size. In this paper, we propose a spectral domain method for handling time series of unequal length. The method make the spectral estimates comparable by produc...

This article considers application of a clusters approach to the California wine industry. After examining the idea of clusters in the context of industrial-complex economics, agglomeration economics and social network economics, we assess the usefulness of a cluster to consider the competitiveness of the California wine industry for national and global sales, export development and vineyard pr...

IEEE 802.15.4 protocols are gaining interests in both industrial and research fields as candidate technologies for (WPAN) Wireless Personal Area Networks, (WSN) Wireless Sensor Network and control Wireless Networks applications. This paper analyzes multiple topologies such as Cluster-Tree, Mesh and Star in various scenarios to compare different performance metrics (Throughput, traffic sent, tra...

This paper describes the Broadband For All Cluster, which resides within the IST (Information Society Technologies) Thematic Area of the EU’s 6 Framework Programme. By explaining the topics being addressed by the projects in the Cluster, it gives a summary of the current trends in broadband provision in the access and core networks, from the perspective of the major industrial and network opera...