background: this study evaluated the relation between telomere length in lymph node (ln) and prognosis of esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (escc).  materials and methods: lns collected from 50 patients were assessed by pathological examination and quantitative reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (qrt-pcr), which was used for detecting telomere length. the relation between clinical...

This paper aims to evaluate and classify some upland rice varieties based on their morphological characteristics. The data used in the study was obtained from National Cereal Research Institute (NCRI), Badeggi -Nigeria. The study consists of 25 upland rice cultivars, which were extracted from 100 rice varieties ergo-listed in the institute. The experiment was conducted at Edozhigi in northcentr...

in this paper, an anomaly detection method in cluster-based mobile ad hoc networks with ad hoc on demand distance vector (aodv) routing protocol is proposed. in the method, the required features for describing the normal behavior of aodv are defined via step by step analysis of aodv and independent of any attack. in order to learn the normal behavior of aodv, a fuzzy averaging method is used fo...

Cluster analysis often serves as the initial step in the process of data classification. In this paper, the problem of clustering different length input data is considered. The edit distance as the minimum number of elementary edit operations needed to transform one vector into another is used. A heuristic for clustering unequal length vectors, analogue to the well known k-means algorithm is de...

We present a novel clustering method using HMM parameter space and eigenvector decomposition. Unlike the existing methods, our algorithm can cluster both constant and variable length sequences without requiring normalization of data. We show that the number of clusters governs the number of eigenvectors used to span the feature similarity space. We are thus able to automatically compute the opt...

In order to study the effect of drought stress on seedling morpho-physiological traits of alfalfa (Medicago sativa), the seeds of ten populations were collected in their natural habitats from different parts of the Fars province, Iran in 2013. A factorial experiment was conducted using 10 alfalfa populations and four water stress treatments of 100, 75, 50, and 25% Field Capacity (FC) b...