Introduction Measurement of the nutritive value feedstuffs with near infrared reflectance spectroscopy (NIRS) laboratory benchtop spectrometers is well-established. The aim this study was to examine reliability and accuracy a handheld low-cost Tellspec NIRS spectrometer for measurement oilseed meals. Methods Samples (n=142) comprising byproduct meals from processing linseed, noug seed, cotton g...

This literature review provides current information about intrauterine growth retardation (IGR) as one of the causes perinatal morbidity and mortality. There is a sustaining trend to augmentation UGR level despite new methods diagnostics, treatment prevention development. Furthermore, there high percentage complications among children with IGR at any age. Therefore, early diagnostics accompanyi...

—The current recovery strategy for threatened Snake River Chinook salmon Oncorhynchus tshawytscha relies heavily on improvements to the quality of freshwater spawning and rearing habitat; however, the potential survival benefit from these actions is unknown. To address this issue, we created a model for predicting the early freshwater survival rates (egg to smolt) of this species as a function ...

Motivation and Objectives A major goal in biomedicine is to determine the underlying genetic causes of human diseases in order to better understand them and support their prevention and treatment. However, the genetic bases of many multifactorial diseases are still unclear, and high-throughput technologies typically report hundred or thousands of genes associated to a disease of interest. In th...

Switchgrass (Panicum virgatum) is a perennial C 4 grass native to the central prairies of North America. Recent development of switchgrass as a sustainable biofuel feedstock has raised interest in diseases that could impact switchgrass, especially when grown under monoculture conditions. Among the known diseases of switchgrass, rust diseases are the most widespread and could potentially impact ...

* Correspondence: [email protected] Department of Computer Architecture and Computer Technology, CITIC-UGR, University of Granada, 18071 Granada, Spain From 2nd International Work-Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering IWBBIO 2014 Granada, Spain. 7-9 April 2014 The present supplement in the BioMedical Engineering OnLine journal is composed by 7 extended papers from the original pa...

Deformable models are a well-established and vigorously researched approach to tackle a large variety of image segmentation problems. However, they generally use a set of weighting parameters that need to be manually tuned, a task that is both hard and time consuming. More importantly, these techniques assume that the global minimum of the energy functional corresponds to the optimum segmentati...

The fact that gravity is a metric theory follows from the Einstein equivalence principle. This principle consists of (i) the universality of free fall, (ii) the universality of the gravitational redshift and (iii) the local validity of Lorentz invariance. Many experiments searching for deviations from standard general relativity test the various aspects of the Einstein equivalence principle. He...

This special issue includes eight papers focused on recent developments in the field of intelligent systems. The issue is originated from selected high-quality contributions to the ninth international conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications, held in Pisa, Italy, 30 November to 2 December 2009. The selected contributions were expanded and subsequently peer-reviewed. Ten were th...

Complexes of 3\4\5\6!tetrahydro!4\6!dioxo!ð0\1\3Łtriazolo!ð0\4!aŁ pyrimidine "H1tpO1# with the divalent transition metals of the _rst transition series from Mn to Zn have been synthesized and characterized\ their general formula being M"HtpO1#1 = nH1O[ The crystal structure of the manganese compound\ ðMn"HtpO1#1"H1O#1Ł\ has been solved by single crystal X!ray di}raction\ showing that the ligand...