Based on observational studies, there is a linear increase in cardiovascular risk with higher systolic blood pressure (SBP), yet clinical trials have not shown benefit across all SBP categories. We assessed whether troponin T measured using high-sensitivity assay was associated with cardiovascular disease within SBP categories in 11 191 Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities study participants. Re...

The Standard BackPropagation (SBP) algorithm is the most widely known and used learning method for training neural networks. Unfortunately, SBP suffers from several problems such as sensitivity to the initial conditions and very slow convergence. Here we describe how we used Genetic Programming, a search algorithm inspired by Darwinian evolution, to discover new supervised learning algorithms f...

Quantitation of morphine and other major alkaloids in opium gum from specially cultivated Papaver setigerum DC (“Wild Poppy”) is presented. Papaver setigerum plants (n = 14) were grown in an atmosphere containing a slightly elevated level of carbon dioxide (390 ppm). Opium gum collected from the capsules of the mature plants was analyzed for morphine, codeine, thebaine, noscapine, and papaverin...

Self-fertilization, which results in reduced fitness of offspring, is a common problem in hermaphrodite angiosperms. To prevent this, many plants utilize self-incompatibility (SI), which is determined by the multi-allelic S locus, that allows discrimination between self (incompatible) and non-self (compatible) pollen by the pistil. In poppy (Papaver rhoeas), the pistil S-determinant (PrsS) is a...

Oil content and fatty acid profile of selected poppy (Papaver somniferum L.) landraces modern cultivars | Matěj Satranský, Adéla Fraňková, Perla Kuchtová, Kateřina Pazderů, Ivana Capouchova Agricultural Journals