Flexible manufacturing sys tems ( F M S s ) have received considerable at tent ion and evolve to be one of the fastest growing industrial field in the last decade. In these sys tems , m u c h higher e f i c i e n c y of manufacturing can be achieved (owning to their intr insic f lexibility) provided a good scheduling policy i s adopted. In this paper, w e propose a dynamic scheduler wi th a hie...

Alignment-free methods are increasingly used for genome analysis and phylogeny reconstruction since they circumvent various difficulties of traditional approaches that rely on multiple sequence alignments. In particular, they are much faster than alignment-based methods. Most alignmentfree approaches work by analyzing the k-mer composition of sequences. In this paper, we propose to use ‘spaced ...

Cassia angustifolia Vahl. is native to Saudi Arabia. This shrub has been used as a laxative and even fungicide. The current study was designed evaluate the morphology molecular characterization of plants from two areas in Purified genomic DNA subjected PCR amplification using random primers (RAPD). showed that, all morphological parameters were statistically significant (P ≤ 0.05) when compa...

mahaleb (prunus mahalab l.) is used as a rootstock for cherries in iran and many other countries. in this research, rapd markers were used to determine the genetic diversity among eight genotypes of mahaleb evaluated in two separate research grardens in karaj, iran. these genotypes are used as mother plants for seed production. totally 40 random primers were examined for pcr reactions on the te...

Mer receptor tyrosine kinase is a member of the Tyro-3/Axl/Mer (TAM) subfamily of receptor tyrosine kinases, and its expression on phagocytes facilitates their clearance of apoptotic cells (ACs). Mer expression in germinal centers (GCs) occurs predominantly on tingible body macrophages. B and T cells do not express Mer. In this study, we show that Mer deficiency ((Mer(-/-)) resulted in the long...

Fifteen serotypes of E. coli isolated from poultry were subjected to RAPD-PCR using eight oligonucleotide random primers. Amplification with each of the primers resulted in generation of different DNA fingerprinting profile with varied number of bands. Dendrogram based generation of clustering of E. coli serotypes showed two major clusters. The polymorphic amplicons served as markers for E. col...

MUC7 12-mer-L exhibits potent in vitro antifungal activity in low-ionic-strength buffers. In this study, we investigated the anticandidal activity and stability of MUC7 12-mer-L and its all-D-amino-acid isomer, along with Hsn5 12-mer (P113) and magainin-II, in human clarified and unclarified saliva in the absence or presence of protease inhibitor cocktail (PIC, which includes EDTA) or EDTA alon...