DNA relatedness among 28 putative strains of Streptomyces ipomoea from geographically diverse locations and the type strain, NRRL B-12321, was determined spectrophotometrically. The data confirm that these 28 strains are not closely related genetically to the plant-pathogenic species Streptomyces scabies (39% DNA relatedness) or Streptomyces acidiscabies (17% DNA relatedness) or any other major...

Cryptic relatedness was suggested to be an important source of confounding in population-based association studies (PBAS). The magnitude and manner of cryptic relatedness affecting the performance of PBAS of continuous traits remain to be investigated. We simulated a set of related samples through biased sampling and inbreeding, and evaluated the power and type I error rates of simple associati...

A novel technique of semantic relatedness measurement between words based on link structure of Wikipedia was provided. Only Wikipedia’s link information was used in this method, which avoid researchers from burdensome text processing. During the process of relatedness computation, the positive effects of two-directional Wikipedia’s links and four link types are taken into account. Using a widel...

Genetic relatedness is a central concept in the study of social evolution. Though originally defined in terms of genealogy, the modern version of relatedness accommodates genetic similarity of any origin. This paper examines relatedness in group structured modes, in which a trait affects the fitness of all group members. Such traits can be divided into two types, based on whether their group fi...

The name Proteus penneri sp. nov. is proposed for a group of organisms previously called Proteus vulgaris indole negative or P. vulgaris biogroup 1. All of these strains were salicin negative, esculin negative, and chloramphenicol resistant (zone size, less than 14 mm). DNA relatedness studies indicated that when DNA from P. penneri strain 1808-73 was labeled and tested against unlabeled DNA fr...

3 ABSTRACT Relatedness estimators are widely used in genetic studies, but effects of population structure on performance of estimators, criteria to evaluate estimators, and benefits of using such estimators in conservation programs, have to date received little attention. In this paper we present new estimators, based on the relationship between coancestry and molecular similarity between indiv...

According to Self-Determination Theory, feelings of relatedness and value of a behavior are critical factors that affect internalization and integration. The purpose of the current studywas to identify factors that influence relatedness and value in an academic setting. Specifically, the study investigated the effects of autonomy, mastery goals, performance-approach goals, and performance-avoid...

Text is composed of words and phrases. In bag-of-word model, phrases in texts are split into words. This may discard the inner semantics of phrases which in turn may give inconsistent relatedness score between two texts. TrWP , the unsupervised text relatedness approach combines both word and phrase relatedness. The word relatedness is computed using an existing unsupervised co-occurrence based...