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A detailed assessment of the evolution and phylogenetic utility of two genes, ftsZ and wsp, was used to investigate the origin of male-killing Wolbachia, previously isolated from the ladybird Adalia bipunctata and the butterfly Acraea encedon. The analysis included almost all available sequences of B-group Wolbachia and two outgroup taxa and showed that (1) the two gene regions differ in phylog...

A water safety plan (WSP) is a tool proposed by the World Health Organization (WHO) for mitigation of risks in consumption, and little known about challenges its implementation stage. The goal this work was to identify facilitating factors regarding WSP from case study Brazil. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with supply public service providers who already have implemented such policy...

Modern deep learning-based 3D pose estimation approaches require plenty of annotations. However, existing datasets lack diversity, which limits the performance current methods and their generalization ability. Although utilize 2D annotations to help estimation, they mainly focus on extracting structural constraints from poses, ignoring information hidden in images. In this paper, we propose a n...

Recently, four quantitative trait loci linked to flesh mealiness in apples were identified, with one associated the MdPG1 allele. Hence, this study analyzed cell wall changes two mealy (Orin and Akane) three non-mealy (Kiou, Kitaro, Fuji) apple cultivars during ripening. The fruits harvested for each cultivar at optimum maturity stored 20°C 20 days. firmness of ‘Kitaro’ ‘Fuji’ fruit did not cha...

A new robust algorithm for isolated word recognition in low SNR environments is suggested. The algorithm, called WSP, is described here for left to right models with no skips. It is shown that the algorithm outperforms the conventional HMM in the SNR range of 5 to 20db, and the PMC algorithm in the range 0 to-9db.

Weblogs have received attention as new, personalized media. Yet, only few of them attract public attention and become successful. This study explores weblog success factors in three categories: content creation, content features and content diffusion. During the process of content creation in weblogs, we argue that weblog service providers (WSPs) support bloggers’ resource collection. We also p...

Internet services can now be used from mobile terminals. The main standard supporting this technology, WAP, will enable new services since it is compatible with network technologies like IP and UMTS. In parallel, powerful methods must be proposed to validate the underlying protocols in order to guaratee reliability and interoperability of new products. Our work, based on formal methods, contrib...

Methods WSP is based on a strategy integrating surveillance, maintenance, continuous chlorine-based disinfection and end-point filtration in critical areas. The strategy includes also molecular typing of the isolates and virulence genes expression analysis to detect the occurrence of adaptative changes in strains colonizing the water system.Recently, monochloramine treatment was applied in sele...