Using 20 pairs of SSR primers situated on each chromosome the maize genetic makeup, 27 drought-tolerant genotypes obtained from Germplasm Unit International Institute Tropical Agriculture (IITA), Ibadan, Nigeria, were examined for diversity. The samples' genomic DNA (gDNA) was extracted using CTAB procedure specified by CIMMYT (2005). All markers used in this investigation extremely polymorphic...

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T HE THEORY developed in the statistical literature for the method of k-means can be applied to the study of optimal k-level vector quantizers. In this paper, I describe some of this theory, including a consistency theorem (Section II) and a central lim it theorem (Section IV) for k-means cluster centers. These results help to explain the behavior of optimal vector quantizers constructed from l...

Breast cancer is one of the common reasons for deaths women over globe. It has been found that a Computer-Aided Diagnosis (CAD) system can be designed using X-ray mammograms early-stage detection breast cancer, which decrease death rate to large extent. This paper work proposes novel 2-way threshold-based intelligent water drops IWD “algorithm feature selection design an effective and efficient...

Dirofilariosis, caused by Dirofilaria immitis and D. repens, is spreading in several geographic regions. The development of infective larvae in the mosquito vector (extrinsic incubation) needs an accumulated total of 130 degree-days above the 14 °C threshold, normally expressed as heartworm development units (HDUs). Based on this information, temperature- based models have been developed and ap...

The rise of infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) clouds, both private and public, has created new problems in managing large collections of virtual-machine (VM) images. VM images must be kept up-to-date with security patches and scanned for malicious or improperly licensed software. Because images are bulky, attention must be paid to the latencies of deployment and capture. Large collections of V...

The increasing body of nucleic acid sequence data has created interest among many scientists in computational aspects of data storage and data processing. In fact GenBank and other data bases hade been created in order to store the data in a useful format, both for archival and analysis purposes. (See Burks et a/.' for a review of GenBank activities.) The value of simply have easy a m e s to al...