Advertisers are increasingly turning to fingerprinting techniques to track users across the web. As web browsing activity shifts to mobile platforms, traditional browser fingerprinting techniques become less effective; however, device fingerprinting using built-in sensors offers a new avenue for attack. We study the feasibility of using motion sensors to perform device fingerprinting at scale, ...

Until recently, morphotyping, a method evaluating fringe and surface characteristics of streak colonies grown on malt agar, has been recommended as a simple and unexpensive typing method for Candida albicans isolates. The discriminatory power and reproducibility of Hunter's modified scheme of Phongpaichit's morphotyping has been evaluated on 28 C. albicans isolates recovered from the oral cavit...

The present study was designed to evaluate the usefulness of two novel molecular typing methods, amplification of DNA fragments surrounding rare restriction sites (ADSRRS-fingerprinting) and the PCR melting profile (PCR MP), for Staphylococcus aureus strain differentiation. Thirty-seven S. aureus strains isolated from patients with a history of furunculosis were studied. The strains were identi...

Different techniques to assess bacterial community structure and diversity were evaluated in silages prepared with four different maize cultivars, three conventional and one transgenic (cv. Tundra, event Bt-176). Plants were cultivated in the greenhouse and harvested after 30 days of growth. Silage samples were collected at successive times during fermentation and analyzed for bacterial counts ...

UNLABELLED The natural phytoestrogen genistein is known as protein kinase inhibitor and tumor suppressor in various types of cancers. We studied its antitumor effect in two different xenograft models using positron emission tomography (PET) in vivo combined with ex vivo histology and nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) metabolic fingerprinting. PROCEDURES A431 and Colo205 tumor-bearing mice were...

DNA based molecular markers allow precise, objective and rapid cultivar identification. In this study, five ISSR and two sets of fluorescence-labeled TP-M13-SSR markers were applied for discrimination of eight closely related wheat cultivars. Five ISSR primers revealed a total of 43 distinct reproducible bands, 29 (67.44%) of the 43 bands were polymorphic. The number of polymorphic bands detect...

In many bird species, the sex determination is very difficult in young birds and many adults. Nowadays, sex identification of animals throughout their lives is possible by molecular genetic techniques. In the present study, the sex identification of canaries by PCR methods based on chromo helicase DNA binding protein CHD-Z and CHD-W genes were explained. Genomic DNA was extracted from feather b...

The use of PCR based fingerprinting using short primers is very sensitive to variation in procedures. Strict laboratory procedures, exceeding general molecular biology standards, must be followed. Many laboratories have experienced difficulties in obtaining reproducible banding. Using a stock solution greatly minimizes pipetting small quantities, but the stability of a Taq stock is not well kno...

Patterns and persistency of fecal shedding of Klebsiella spp. by healthy adult dairy cattle were explored with probabilistic, statistical, and molecular methods. Fecal shedding was monitored longitudinally in 92 animals in 1 herd for 5 mo. Shedding patterns followed a random binomial distribution, and associations with host factors were not detected. For 12 animals from 4 herds, strain-typing o...

background and objectives: traditional polyherbal oils are still in use in persian traditional medicine (ptm). most of these formulations are prepared via traditional procedures such as maceration of herbs in oils or evaporating aqueous herbal extracts in boiling or heating oils as the vehicle. thus, their quality control, standardization and authentication are real challenges due to the lack o...