Pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) has been the typing method of choice for strain identification in epidemiological studies of several bacterial species of medical importance. The usual procedure for the comparison of strains and assignment of strain type and subtype relies on visual assessment of band difference number, followed by an incremental assignment to the group hosting the most ...

Numerical experiments indicate that images, in general, possess a considerable degree of affine self-similarity, that is, blocks are well approximated in root mean square error (RMSE) by a number of other blocks when affine greyscale transformations are employed. This has led to a simple L-based model of affine image self-similarity which includes the method of fractal image coding (cross-scale...

Wavelet transform has been developed and applied in various areas of science and engineering. It offers better signal processing capabilities due to the existence of a large number of wavelet functions. The superiority comes with a requirement of methods to select a proper wavelet function for each signal or application. Selection methods based on signal properties are not always applicable due...

Nighttime light data from the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) Day/Night Band (DNB) provides a unique data source for mapping and monitoring urban areas at regional and global scales. This study proposes an object similarity-based thresholding method using VIIRS DNB data to map urban areas. The threshold for a target potential urban object was determined by comparing its simila...

Many environmental and socioeconomic time–series data can be adequately modeled using Auto-Regressive Integrated Moving Average (ARIMA) models. We call such time–series ARIMA time–series. We consider the problem of clustering ARIMA time–series. We propose the use of the Linear Predictive Coding (LPC) cepstrum of time–series for clustering ARIMA time–series, by using the Euclidean distance betwe...

pomegranate is an importantly popular fruit crop with iran the main center of its diversity throghout the world. the richest pomegranate genetic resources believed to exist in iran. the present investigation was carried out to study the genetic diversity of 15 genotypes of pomegranate in tarume zanjan making use of rapd markers. genomic dna was extracted from the plant,s leaf, and tested for th...

the common reed (phragmites australis) is a perennial weed with the largest geographical distribution of any flowering plant in the world. in this study, 39 populations of common reed were collected and random amplified polymorphic dna (rapd) markers were used to characterize the genetic diversity among these populations. the 16 primers used in this study, amplified 149 scorable rapd bands amon...

We consider and study formal power series, that we call supported series, with real coefficients which are either zero or bounded below by some positive constant. The sequences of such coefficients have a lot of similarity with sequences of natural numbers considered in additive number theory. It is this analogy that we pursue, thus establishing many properties and giving equivalent statements ...

Expressing molecular electron densities as linear combinations of Guassian 1S spherical functions extends accurate computations of ab initio quantum molecular similarity measures to large systems. These approximate least squares fitted functions lose the density of probability statistical meaning since some coefficients might be negative. A new algorithm using positive coefficients only and thu...

We consider a coagulation equation with constant coefficients and a time dependent power law input of monomers. We discuss the asymptotic behaviour of solutions as t→∞, and we prove solutions converge to a similarity profile along the non-characteristic direction.