This paper contributes to the growing field of Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) strategies Automatic Modulation Identification (AMI) for Cognitive Radio (CR). Traditional AMI-based ANN methods suffer from many drawbacks such as overfitting due architectures with complex layers, low performance caused by falling into local minima, and increased training time that keeps them being used in real-t...

eleven goat breeds of different origin (10 spanish and 1 african) were considered for this study: zambian dwarf, azpi-gorri, blanca-andaluza, blanca-celtibérica, blanca de rasquera, catalana, malagueña, moncaína, murciano-granadina, negra serrana and pyrenean. nine linear body measurements for females, as well as the body weight ratio between gender and body weight, were obtained from literatur...

Seed–storage proteins are important reservoirs of food and energy which are also involved in the determination of bread making quality. Solubility properties of these proteins are traditionally classified into four classes: albumin, globulin, prolamin and glutelin. Gliadin and glutenin have also been studied extensively and the genetics and biochemistry are relatively well known. Grain proteins...

The genotype characteristic of cultivars was investigated, along with varieties of both of the jute species, Corchorus olitorius and Corchorus capsularis, in the germplasm collection at the Bangladesh Jute Research Institute (BJRI). DNA fingerprinting was generated for 9 different varieties and 12 accessions of jute cultivars by using random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD). A total of 29 arbit...

In this investigation we tested the performance of the five available hierarchical clustering algorithms and nine distance metrics. An arbitrarily chosen experimental matrix (6x3) is used in this analysis to evaluate 45 clustering schemes using dendrogram and cophonet coefficient index. Priori knowledge of cluster dispersion was the key element to determine non-useful cluster structures. The Eu...

While pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) is recognized as the gold standard method for clonality analysis, MALDI-TOF MS has recently been spotlighted as an alternative tool for species identification. Herein, we compared the dendrograms of multi-drug-resistant (MDR) Acinetobacter baumannii isolates by using MALDI-TOF MS with those by using PFGE. We used direct colony and protein extraction...

The genus Burkholderia (β-Proteobacteria) currently comprises more than 60 species, including parasites, symbionts and free-living organisms. Several new species of Burkholderia have recently been described showing a great diversity of phenotypes. We examined the diversity of Burkholderia spp in environmental samples collected from Caatinga and Atlantic rainforest biomes of Bahia, Brazil. Legum...

The genetic relationships among 27 pineapple [Ananas comosus (L.) Merr.] cultivars and lines were examined using 16 simple sequence repeat (SSR) markers. The number of alleles per locus of the SSR markers ranged from 2 to 6 (average 3.19), for a total of 51 alleles. Similarity coefficients were calculated on the basis of 51 amplified bands. A dendrogram was created according to the 16 SSR marke...

The only plants infectious for mammals, green algae from the genus Prototheca, are often overseen or mistaken for yeast in clinical diagnosis. To improve this diagnostical gap, a method was developed for fast and reliable identification of Prototheca. A collection of all currently recognized Prototheca species, most represented by several strains, were submitted to a simple extraction by 70% fo...

The mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) cytochrome oxidase I (COI) gene has been universally and successfully utilized as a barcoding gene, mainly because it can be amplified easily, applied across a wide range of taxa, and results can be obtained cheaply and quickly. However, in rare cases, the gene can fail to distinguish between species, particularly when exposed to highly sensitive methods of data an...