Glutamine synthetase (GS) is a key enzyme in nitrogen metabolism in plants. One of the GS isoforms in plants, GS1, is transcriptionally regulated. Our recent studies show that a soybean GS1, Gmglnβ 1, gene is posttra...
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(纸本)9781617381119
Glutamine synthetase (GS) is a key enzyme in nitrogen metabolism in plants. One of the GS isoforms in plants, GS1, is transcriptionally regulated. Our recent studies show that a soybean GS1, Gmglnβ 1, gene is posttranscriptionally regulated by its 3′UTR. It is of interest to know if the 3′UTR-mediated posttranscriptional regulation of GS1 genes is a universal phenomenon or is it limited to Gmglnβ 1 gene only. The 3′UTR-mediated posttranscriptional regulation of alfalfa GS1 genes (MsGS100 and MsGS13) was investigated using both computational and biological approaches. For our first set of study, we used CisFind, a software tool that identifies unextendable common patterns among sequences, to analyze the 3′UTRs of GS1 genes. CisFind analysis of the 3′UTRs showed that the 3′UTR of MsGS100 shared common putative cis-element motifs with the Gmglnβ 1 3′UTR whereas these elements were absent in the 3′UTR of MsGS13 gene. The computational results were verified using transgenic approach, and the results confirmed the computational analysis. The 3′UTR of MsGS 100 plays a similar role as the 3′UTR of Gmglnβ 1 gene in posttranscriptional regulation of a reporter gene while the 3′UTR of the MsGS13 does not. CisFind, was also used in analyzing the region in the 3′UTR of MsGS13 that could be responsible for its nodule enhanced expression (by detecting putative cis-elements that are overrepresented in the 3′UTR of nodule-enhanced GS1 genes).
The recent advance in SNP genotyping has made a significant contribution to reduction of the costs for large-scale genotyping. The development also has dramatically increased the size of the SNP genotype data. The inc...
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The recent advance in SNP genotyping has made a significant contribution to reduction of the costs for large-scale genotyping. The development also has dramatically increased the size of the SNP genotype data. The increase of the volume of the data, however, has posed a huge obstacle to the conventional analysis techniques that are typically vulnerable to the high-dimensionality problem. To address the issue, we propose a method that exploits two well-tested models: the document-term model and the transaction analysis model. The proposed method consists of two phases. In the first phase, we reduce the dimensions of the SNP genotype data by extracting significant SNPs through transformation of the data in lieu of the document-term model. In the second phase, we discover the association rules that signify the relations between the SNPs and the traits, through the application of the transactional analysis in the reduced-dimension genotype data. We validated the discovered rules through the literature survey. Experiments were also carried out using the HGDP panel data provided by the Foundation Jean Dausset-CEPH, which prove the validity of our new method for identifying appropriate dimensional reduction and associations of multiple SNPs and traits.
Industrial Control Systems (ICS), formerly isolated proprietary systems, are giving place to highly-connected systems, implemented using widespread operating systems and network protocols on public networks. Such stan...
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(纸本)9781424428328;9781424428335
Industrial Control Systems (ICS), formerly isolated proprietary systems, are giving place to highly-connected systems, implemented using widespread operating systems and network protocols on public networks. Such standardization trend opens the door to security threats previously restricted to the corporate and personal computing areas. This paper presents how the main concepts of security in conventional computing systems can be exploited in dependability aspects of ICS, and presents some considerations on how security aspects of a standard-based could be applied to a typical control board used in industrial applications involving measurement.
Local image features can provide the basis for robust and invariant recognition of objects and scenes. Therefore, compact and distinctive representations of local shape and appearance has become invaluable in modern c...
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(纸本)9781450300728
Local image features can provide the basis for robust and invariant recognition of objects and scenes. Therefore, compact and distinctive representations of local shape and appearance has become invaluable in modern computer vision. In this work, we study a local descriptor based on the Holder exponent, a measure of signal regularity. The proposal is to find an optimal number of dimensions for the descriptor using a genetic algorithm (GA). To guide the GA search, fitness is computed based on the performance of the descriptor when applied to standard region matching problems. This criterion is quantified using the F-Measure, derived from recall and precision analysis. Results show that it is possible to reduce the size of the canonical Holder descriptor without degrading the quality of its performance. In fact, the best descriptor found through the GA search is nearly 70% smaller and achieves similar performance on standard tests. Copyright 2010 ACM.
Meta-heuristics are efficient techniques for solving large scale optimization problems in which traditional mathematical techniques are impractical or provide sub-optimal solutions. The Shuffled Frog Leaping algorithm...
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Artificial Immune Systems (AISs) are composed of techniques inspired by immunology. The clonal selection principle ensures the organism adaptation to fight invading antigens by an immune response activated by the bind...
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Artificial Immune Systems (AISs) are composed of techniques inspired by immunology. The clonal selection principle ensures the organism adaptation to fight invading antigens by an immune response activated by the binding of antigens and antibodies. As an immune response can be elicited even when the binding between an antigen and an antibody is not perfect, an approximate binding might suffice, and a Fuzzy Logic mechanism might be the most appropriate mechanism to control such process. This paper presents a novel hybrid model based on concepts of Immune and Fuzzy Systems with applications to pattern recognition problems. The preliminary results obtained here suggest the proposed model is a promising pattern recognition tool.
Photonic crystal cavities with tunable surface area via multiple-hole defects were investigated for increased resonance wavelength shifts upon exposure to variable-index analytes. Sensitivity was improved by 10% compa...
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Photonic crystal cavities with tunable surface area via multiple-hole defects were investigated for increased resonance wavelength shins upon exposure to variable-index analytes. Sensitivity was improved by 10% compar...
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Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) algorithms have been proposed to solve engineering problems that require to find an optimal point of operation. There are several embedded applications which requires to solve online ...
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Cluster analysis is used in several research areas to classify data sets in groups by their similar characteristics. Metaheuristic-based techniques, such as Genetic Algorithms (GAs) and Ant Colony Optimization (ACO), ...
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Cluster analysis is used in several research areas to classify data sets in groups by their similar characteristics. Metaheuristic-based techniques, such as Genetic Algorithms (GAs) and Ant Colony Optimization (ACO), have been applied in order to increase the clustering algorithm performance. GA and ACO-based clustering algorithms are capable of efficiently and automatically forming natural groups from a pre-defined number of clusters. This paper presents a GA and an ACO algorithm to the clustering problem. Both algorithms were refined using local search in order to improve the clustering accuracy. The results are compared on numeric UCI databases.
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