As highly prized, popular mushrooms, morels are widely distributed in the northern hemisphere, with China as a modern centre of speciation and diversity. Overharvesting of morels has caused concern over how to effectively preserve their biological and genetic diversity. However, little is known about their population biology and life cycle. In this study, we selected two sympatric phylogenetic ...

Location-aware applications require a geographic location service of Internet hosts. We focus on a measurement-based service for the geographic location of Internet hosts. Host locations are inferred by comparing delay patterns of geographically distributed landmarks, which are hosts with a known geographic location, with the delay pattern of the target host to be located. Results show a signif...

The limited host range of Enterococcus faecalis may reduce its clonal diversity and thereby increase its geographic sharing of ribotype patterns. Such sharing would be advantageous for bacterial source tracking (BST). We determined the geographic sharing of ribotype patterns in 752 Ent. faecalis isolates obtained primarily from wastewater treatment plants in Delaware (15 locations; 490 isolates...

Many references to geographic locations are made linguistically, using words to describe the location in terms of objects inthe landscape and the relations among them. In order to attach coordinates to these locations, one must be able to identify them in adatabase which contains representations of the objects and relations as well as coordinates for these features. This article ass...

Some types of social networking applications installed in the mobile devices require users to share own locations while using them. Adversaries glean users’ private information through shared locations via social networking application and public available geographic data. In this paper, we propose a user sensitive privacy-preserving location sharing system to avoid leaking. Users define sensit...

     Eight samples of flowering tops from six species of the genus Crataegus L., commonly called Hawthorn, from different geographic locations of Iran were standardized according to German Pharmacopoeia monograph on Crataegi folium cum flore (hawthorn leaf with flower) by high-performance thin-layer chromatograph-ic (HPTLC) fingerprinting combining with digital scanni...