The goal of the study was to determine which similarity coefficient and statistical method to use to produce the highest rate of correct assignment (RCA) in repetitive extragenic palindromic PCR-based bacterial source tracking. In addition, the use of standards for deciding whether to accept or reject source assignments was investigated. The use of curve-based coefficients Cosine Coefficient an...

in this study, the genetic diversity of 25 iranian saffron genotypes from three species (crocus speciosus, crocus cancellatus and crocus sativus) has been evaluated using 16 morphological traits and rapd marker. c. sativus was different with speciosus in the leaf number per plant, tepal length, flower weight, inflorescence stem height and the stigma length, but had no significant difference wit...

Stability in clinical prediction models is crucial for transferability between studies, yet has received little attention. The problem is paramount in high dimensional data, which invites sparse models with feature selection capability. We introduce an effective method to stabilize sparse Cox model of time-to-events using statistical and semantic structures inherent in Electronic Medical Record...

almond is one of the most valuable horticultural nut crops in the world with iran being amongst the most important regions of its distribution. rapd markers were employed to evaluate the diversity levels and relationship among some 56 collected genotypes of the crop. through sixteen rapd primers a number of, 171 dna bands were produced, 168 of which were polymorphic. the samples which according...

Ontologies are a crucial tool for formally specifying the vocabulary and the concepts of agent platforms, so, to share information, agents that use different vocabularies must be able to translate data from one ontological framework to another. The treatment of uncertainty plays a key role in the ontology mapping, as the degree of overlapping between concepts can not be represented logically. T...

The conventional text similarity detection usually use word frequency vectors to represent texts. But it is high-dimensional and sparse. So in this research, a new text similarity detection algorithm using component histogram map (CHM-TSD) is proposed.This method is based on the mathematical expression of Chinese characters, with which Chinese characters can be split into components. Then each ...

This work investigates lexical organizat ion of verbs looking at the influence of some linguistic factors on the process of lexical acquisition and use. Among the factors that may play a role in acquisition, in this paper we investigate the influence of polysemy. We examine data obtained from psycholinguistic action naming tasks performed by children and adults (speakers of Brazilian Portuguese...