We summarize the outlook for using transformation as a genetic tool in Populus. Transformation approaches avoid the major obstacle to performing genetics experiments in trees – namely long generation cycles and the difficulty of inbreeding to reveal loss of function alleles. Dominant transgenic alleles allow modifications in gene function to be readily observed in primary transformants. Althoug...

The way super- and sub-additive transformations of aggregation functions are introduced involve suprema and infima taken over simplexes whose dimensions may grow arbitrarily. Exact values of such transformations may thus be hard to determine in general. In this note we discuss methods of algorithmic approximation of such transformations.

The Fiat-Shamir paradigm was proposed as a way to remove interaction from 3-round proof of knowledge protocols and derive secure signature schemes. This generic transformation leads to very efficient schemes and has thus grown quite popular. However, this transformation is proven secure only in the random oracle model. In FOCS 2003, Goldwasser and Kalai showed that this transformation is provab...

In this paper we introduce a generalized concept of field-transforming metamaterials, which perform field transformations defined as linear relations between the original and transformed fields. These artificial media change the fields in a prescribed fashion in the volume occupied by the medium. We show what electromagnetic properties of transforming medium are required. The coefficients of th...

Many IT researchers have tried to describe the IT function and to explain its transformation over time. Nevertheless, we observed that existing characterizations are often based on a single dimension, attached to historical periods or built into a normative discourse that calls for an ideal profile. We do not subscribe to these premises, seeing that there might be a series of distinct archetype...

The Radon transformations of generalized functions concentrated on lines and curves are deduced using a geometric approach and a limiting process. It is shown that any curve may be replaced by its tangents for the purposes of transformation and that each tangent will produce a maximum value in transform space which may be located using a one dimensional convolution filter. The locations of such...

A new generalized function space in which all Gelfand-Shilov classes S ′0 α (α > 1) of analytic functionals are embedded is introduced. This space of ultrafunctionals does not possess a natural nontrivial topology and cannot be obtained via duality from any test function space. A canonical isomorphism between the spaces of hyperfunctions and ultrafunctionals on R is constructed that extends the...

In this paper we propose the use of a local image transformation involving radial basis functions for landmark-based registration of medical images. More precisely, we consider radial basis functions as nodal functions in the modified Shepard method. In this way we obtain an image transformation more accurate and stable than the one given by the global radial basis functions, as shown by numeri...

New cloud programming and deployment models pose challenges to software application engineers who are looking, often in vain, for tools to automate any necessary code adaptation and transformation. Functionas-a-Service interfaces are particular non-trivial targets when considering that most cloud applications are implemented in non-functional languages. Among the most widely used of these langu...

Beside the well known nutritional and health benefits, strawberry (FragariaXananassa) crop draws increasing attention as plant model system for the Rosaceae family, due to the short generation time, the rapid in vitro regeneration, and to the availability of the genome sequence of F.Xananassa and F. vesca species. In the last years, the use of high-throughput sequence technologies provided larg...