almonds are self incompatible, the incompatibility being controlled by a multi allelic (s-alleles) single gene. the incompatibility alleles were studied in 96 samples of wild almonds and related prunus species from 10 taxonomic groups. polymerase chain reactions were carried out with six primer sets including: three degenerate primer pairs (paconsi-f(fam)/em-pc1consrd, paconsi-f(fam)/em-pc3cons...

Presenting a set of similar or diverse ideas during the idea generation process leads ideators to come-up with more creative and diverse ideas. However, to better assess the similarity between the ideas, we designed two matching systems, namely I-Match and OntoIdea. In the context of the idea generation process, each idea is represented by a set of instances from DBpedia describing the main con...

Merging virtual object with human video sequence is an important technique for many applications such as special effects in movies and augmented reality. In a traditional method, the operator manually fit 3D body model onto the human video sequence, and generate virtual objects at the current 3D body pose. However, the manual fitting is a time consuming task, and the automatic registration is r...

Camera based systems have been a preferred choice in many motion tracking applications due to the ease of installation and the ability to work in unprepared environments. The concept of these systems is based on extracting image information (colour and shape properties) to detect the object location. However, the resolution of the image and the camera field-ofview (FOV) are two main factors tha...

Genetic diversity among ginger genotypes collected from different parts of the country was studied using molecular markers (30 RAPD and 55 SSR). Compared to primers SSR were efficient in distinguishing genotypes. A total 86 23 polymorphic bands observed with primers, respectively. Percentage polymorphism between 97.40 % 56.54 %. Grouping by combined data indicated that irrespective their place ...

In this paper it is tested which of the various alternative approaches for constructing knowledge spillover pools suggested in existing literature measures the extent to which a rm can costlessly receive external knowledge best. Since knowledge spillovers are unmeasurable, a `goodness of t' measure is constructed using innovation survey data. It turns out that measures of the uncentered correla...

This article addresses the perceptual identification of French regional accents by listeners from the Paris region and Belgium. It is based on the geographical localisation of about thirty speakers from seven French-speaking areas: Vendee (West of France), Languedoc (South of France), Alsace (East of France), Romand Switzerland, East, Centre and West of Belgium. Contrary to the speake bracket (...