The last detailed review of Content-based Image Retrieval Systems (CBIRS) is that from Veltkamp and Tanase [VT02], updated in 2002. Since then, many new systems emerged, other systems were improved, but many systems are no longer supported. This paper reconsiders the systems described by Veltkamp and Tanase and proposes in addition for a selection of existing CBIRS a quantitative comparison. Fo...

Ascochyta (Mycosphaerella) blight on cultivated peas is primarily caused by infection through asexual spores (pycnospores) of Mycosphaerella pinodes (Berk. et Blox.) Vestergren [recently renamed Peyronellaea pinodes (Berk. & A. Bloxam) Aveskamp, Gruyter & Verkley]. Using a model pathosystem involving Medicago truncatula and Mycosphaerella pinodes strain OMP-1, we examined the histology and ultr...

At the end of first third 15th century, a prominent representative Muslim elite, sayyid and theologian from Yemen, Ahmad al-Yamani (died in 1450), arrived Dagestan stopped Kumukh, one major political centers Mountainous Dagestan. He devoted last two decades his life to spread strengthening Islam among highlanders. Since that time, Kumukh turned into large center “internal” Islamization mountain...

In addition to being a forage crop, Caliph medic (Medicago truncatula) is also a model legume plant and is used for research focusing on the molecular characterization of the interaction between rhizobia and plants. However, the endophytic microbiome in this plant is poorly defined. Endophytic bacteria play a role in supplying plants with the basic requirements necessary for growth and developm...

The health and education institutions that were established based on Foundation tradition starting from the Umayyad and Abbasid, and especially in the Seljuk and Ottoman periods in the Turkish-Islam civilization where the patients were treated without expecting anything in return and health information based on practice and observation were provided were named “Darüşşifa”. It is derived from wo...