Particle picking is a crucial first step in the computational pipeline of single-particle cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM). Selecting particles from the micrographs is difficult especially for small particles with low contrast. As high-resolution reconstruction typically requires hundreds of thousands of particles, manually picking that many particles is often too time-consuming. While semi-a...

Natural and synthetic plant growth regulators have been used with increasing frequency to modify crop plants by changing the rate or pattern, both, of their responses internal external factors that govern development from germination. The use (PGRs) in modern horticulture is well established, particularly industrially advanced countries, application fast picking up developing nations as well. r...

The goal of this study was to identify which bird species consume Solanum granuloso-leprosum fruits and disperse its seeds. 60 hours of focal observations were carried out between April and May 2006 on the edge of a deciduous forest fragment in the Uruguay River region, Rio Grande do Sul state, Brazil. Ten species were observed in total removing 443 fruits. Saltator similis removed 61.8% of the...

We present a performance-optimized algorithm, subsampled open-reference OTU picking, for assigning marker gene (e.g., 16S rRNA) sequences generated on next-generation sequencing platforms to operational taxonomic units (OTUs) for microbial community analysis. This algorithm provides benefits over de novo OTU picking (clustering can be performed largely in parallel, reducing runtime) and closed-...

Due to the use of promotional pricing by supermarkets, there is considerable price variation across weeks within a store and across stores within a week. Consumers may therefore save on their groceries by (1) cherry picking over time (“when”) and (2) cherry picking across stores (“where”). The research focuses on three substantive research questions associated with cherry picking: (1) What vari...

Wigren, M. & Heimann, M. Skin Picking in Prader-Willi Syndrome: A Pilot Study of Clinical Differences and Comorbid Symptoms. Göteborg Psychological Reports, 1999, 29, No. 6. Skin picking constitutes a minor diagnostic criterion for Prader-Willi syndrome and is considered to be a syndrome specific behavior and part of a behavioral phenotype. This study surveyed different aspects and patterns of ...

The effectiveness of a deliberately limited version of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) for chronic skin picking was evaluated in a pair of multiple baseline across participants designs. Self-monitoring of skin picking showed that four of the five participants reached near zero levels of picking by post-treatment, but these gains were not fully maintained for three of the four participan...

Abstract This study aimed to evaluate the potential of Gedangrejo, located in Karangmojo district, Gunung Kidul regency, Yogyakarta Special Region, Indonesia, for agro-geohydropark development. Employing a comprehensive geological analysis, which included assessing geomorphological, lithological, and structures alongside hydrogeological conditions, also focused on evaluation water sources agric...

The medical business of China Post Logistics is developing day by day. China Post Logistics have been using the Parallel partition picking mode for a long time, but too many shortages have appearing in these two years, especially in the order picking cost and efficiency. This paper analyzes the current order picking mode of China Post Logistics and compare with the Parallel partition picking mo...