In this study, we used a cross-species network approach to uncover nitrogen (N)-regulated network modules conserved across a model and a crop species. By translating gene network knowledge from the data-rich model Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) to a crop, rice (Oryza sativa), we identified evolutionarily conserved N-regulatory modules as targets for translational studies to improve N use ef...

Within procurement literature; many studies focus on providing decision support to the supplier selection problem. However, studies on group decision support are yet to be explored extensively within supplier selection literature, despite its benefits. This study presents the application of a hybrid approach for group decision support for the supplier selection problem. fuzzy set theory, analyt...

F H p T A b l © 0 pnea of prematurity remains a troublesome clinical problem in the care of low birth eight infants. It may significantly impact the neoatal course of such patients by necessitating the se of assisted ventilation, prolonging their hospialization, and resulting in a need for xanthine or ther pharmacologic intervention. To better unerstand the physiologic basis for neonatal apnea,...

Cell counts and viral load serve as major clinical indicators to provide treatment in the course of a viral infection. Monitoring these markers in patients can be expensive and some of them are not feasible to perform. An alternative solution to this problem is the observer based estimation. Several observer schemes require the previous knowledge of the model and parameters, such condition is n...

Multicast is a vital operation in both broad-band integrated services digital networks (BISDN) and scalable parallel computers. In this paper we look into the issue of supporting multicast in the widely used three-stage Clos network or v(m; n; r) network. Previous work has shown that a nonblocking v(m;n; r) multicast network requires a much higher network cost than a v(m;n; r) permutation netwo...

nitrogen (n) affects adversely the tobacco yield quantity and quality as it increases yield, chlorine and nicotine contents, but decrease potassium content. this experiment was aimed at optimization of (the balance between) n concentration in leaf, stem and root to increase both yield quantity and quality (high potassium, low chlorine and medium nicotine contents) using artificial neural networ...

The corrosion inhibition effect of N,N′-bis(n-Hydroxybenzaldehyde)-1,3-Propandiimine on mild steel has been investigated in 1 M HCl using electrochemical impedance spectroscopy. A predictive model was presented for Nyquist plots using an artificial neural network. The proposed model predicted the imaginary impedance based on the real part of the impedance as a function of time. The model to...