DNA fingerprinting has demonstrated predominance of the Beijing genotype among Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains isolated in Southeast Asia. We prospectively examined the occurrence of Beijing genotype strains in tuberculosis patients in Indonesia. Early in treatment, patients infected with Beijing genotype strains more often had fever unrelated to disease severity, toxicity, or drug resistanc...

We advance here a novel concept for characterizing different classes of RNA genes on the basis of physico-chemical properties of DNA sequences. As knowledge-based approaches could yield unsatisfactory outcomes due to limitations of training on available experimental data sets, alternative approaches that utilize properties intrinsic to DNA are needed to supplement training based methods and to ...

introduction: recently, the incidence of fungal infections dramatically increased with an appearance of many novel species due to different criteria. therefore, several molecular methods have been established for identification of these agents which cause human and animal disorder based on genomic dna. among these methods, rapd-pcr technique is a powerful discriminative method based on amplifie...

due to successes of fingerprinting method in producing rapid and low-cost information of sediment sources, in this research this method was used in three sub-cathments of chasht-khoran basin in semnan province: amrovan, atari and ali-abad. samples below 63 μm were separated and 15 fingerprinting propertis was measured. in the first stage comparison of means and differentiation analysis were use...

Recent advances in learning Deep Neural Network (DNN) architectures have received a great deal of attention due to their ability to outperform state-of-the-art classifiers across a wide range of applications, with little or no feature engineering. In this paper, we broadly study the applicability of deep learning to website fingerprinting. We show that unsupervised DNNs can be used to extract l...

introduction and aims: h. pylori has been implicated in peptic diseases, some with detrimental consequences such as ulcer or cancer. since considerable genetic heterogeneity has been observed within h. pylori population worldwide, it appears an ideal achievement to recruit pcr-based methods and design genetic markers which recognize isolates from normal and symptomatic individuals. in this stud...

for many years, assessment of olive oil quality and itsauthenticity confimation has been of great importanceto guarantee olive oil safety in compliance with legislations. these include the investigation of olive oil purityand quality by analyzing several parameters such as fattyacid composition, sterols, phenolic compounds, triacylglycerol and etc, through performing conventional andadvanced hy...

Title of Dissertation: A JOINT CODING AND EMBEDDING FRAMEWORK FOR MULTIMEDIA FINGERPRINTING Shan He, Doctor of Philosophy, 2007 Dissertation directed by: Professor Min Wu Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology advancement has made multimedia content widely available and easy to process. These benefits also bring ease to unauthorized users who can duplicate and manipulate m...

In fingerprinting, a signature, unique to each user, is embedded in each distributed copy of a multimedia content, in order to identify potential illegal redistributors. This paper investigates digital fingerprinting problems involving millions of users and a handful of colluders. In such problems the rate of the fingerprinting code is often well below fingerprinting capacity, and the use of co...

Recent years have seen a growing awareness of the wider environmental significance of the suspended sediment loads transported by rivers and streams. This includes the importance of fine sediment in the transport of nutrients and contaminants, including phosphorus (P). Sediment source exerts a key control on the physical and geochemical properties of suspended sediment, including its P content,...