The clonal propagation of T. cacao by somatic embryogenesis (SE) is a promising approach to multiply elite genotypes. Assessing fidelity in plants regenerated from embryos the first step toward ensuring genetic uniformity mass production planting material. This study assessed stability plantlets propagated SE and conventional grafting for genotypes CCN51 TSH565 using 13 SSR. leaves vitro (IVL) ...

Abstract Background The generation of accurate and reproducible viral sequence data is necessary to understand the diversity present in populations RNA viruses isolated from clinical samples. While various sequencing methods are available, they often require high quality templates titer ensure reliable data. Methods We modified a multiplex PCR approach characterize simian immunodeficiency virus...

In this paper, a watermarking scheme based on the parametric slant-Hadamard transform is presented. Our approach divides the image into separate blocks and applies the parametric slant-Hadamard transform on each block individually. Then based on a blind scheme, the watermark is inserted in the transform domain and the inverse transform is carried out. The advantage of the selected transform is ...

Interruptions and distractions are a feature of work in most complex sociotechnical systems in which people must handle multiple threads of work. Over the last 10–15 years there has been a crescendo of reviews and investigations into the impact that interruptions and distractions have on safety-critical aspects of healthcare work, such as medication administration, but findings are still inconc...

This paper presents a data hiding technique based on a new compression enhancement called Film Grain Technology. Film grain is a midfrequency noise-like pattern naturally appearing in imagery captured on film. The Film Grain Technology is a method for modeling and removing the film grain, thus enhancing the compression efficiency, and then using the model parameters to create synthetic film gra...

This paper explores the fidelity of queries issued in pervasive computing networks. A query’s fidelity, or how well its results reflect the state of the environment, can be significantly impacted by dynamics that occur during its distributed execution. We focus on continuous queries that can be built out of sequences of consecutive snapshot queries and show how the fidelity of snapshots can be ...