In this paper, different types of web session similarity metrics are compared and combined for better web session clustering. Syntactic and co-occurrence information are used for similarity calculation. Syntactic information on a web page includes the place of the page in the directory hierarchy. Co-occurrence information is the amount of the occurrences of two web pages in the same sessions. V...

The aim of this work was to analyze genetic variability in 18 populations of Maytenus ilicifolia, and representatives of Maytenus aquifolia and Maytenus evonymoidis, collected in the states of Mato Grosso do Sul, Paraná, Santa Catarina and Rio Grande do Sul, using RAPD molecular markers. Considering total samples of the three species, 263 amplified fragments were identified, of which 72.2% show...

Deep neural networks have demonstrated very promising performance on accurate segmentation of challenging organs (e.g., pancreas) in abdominal CT and MRI scans. The current deep learning approaches conduct pancreas segmentation by processing sequences of 2D image slices independently through deep, dense per-pixel masking for each image, without explicitly enforcing spatial consistency constrain...

The aim of this study was to determine phenotypic and genotypic distances in parental lines of diallel population of sunflower, and to identify correlation between both distances with F1 performance, specific combining ability (SCA) and absolutely mid-parent heterosis. The morphological distance (Euclidean distance; EDs) and genetic distance (Jaccard`s distance; JD) among five sunflower parenta...

In this paper we study the predictive ability of some association rule measures typically used to assess descriptive interest. Such measures, namely conviction, lift and χ are compared with confidence, Laplace, mutual information, cosine, Jaccard and φ-coefficient. As prediction models, we use sets of association rules generated as such. Classification is done by selecting the best rule, or by ...

Very interesting specialized web portal for collaboration of developers is CodePlex 1. Registered users can participate in multiple projects, discussions, adding and sharing source codes or documentations, issue a release, etc. In the article we deal with strength extraction between developers based on their association. The research presented in this article is motivated by our previous work [...

Terminal restriction fragment length polymorphism (T-RFLP) is a culture-independent method of obtaining a genetic fingerprint of the composition of a microbial community. Comparisons of the utility of different methods of (i) including peaks, (ii) computing the difference (or distance) between profiles, and (iii) performing statistical analysis were made by using replicated profiles of eubacter...