The species Verticillium represents a group of highly destructive fungal pathogens, responsible for vascular wilt in a number of crops. The host response to infection by Verticillium longisporum at the level of secondary plant metabolites has not been well explored. Natural variation in the glucosinolate (GLS) composition of four Arabidopsis thaliana accessions was characterized: the accessions...

This paper proposes an effective genetic algorithm (GA) with inserting as well as removing mutation so as to solve the Orienteering Problem (OP). In order to obtain improved results we have taken into consideration not only the total profit but also the travel length for the given path. The computer experiments that have been conducted on a large transport network (approximately 900 vertices) p...

Using a speckle-tracking echocardiography (STE), we recently demonstrated that a left ventricular (LV) global longitudinal strain (GLS) ≥ -15% and the serum cardiac troponin T (cTnT) concentration are associated with mortality in stable hemodialysis patients with preserved LV ejection fraction (LVEF). In this study, we explored the relationship between cTnT and echocardiographic parameters and ...

BACKGROUND The goal of this study was to determine if left ventricular (LV) global longitudinal strain (GLS) predicts heart failure (HF) readmission in patients with acute decompensated heart failure. METHODS AND RESULTS Two hundred ninety one patients were enrolled at the time of admission for acute decompensated heart failure between January 2011 and September 2013. Left ventricle global lo...

α-glucosidases (α-Gls) catalyze the last step of carbohydrate digestion in mammals and release glucose in bloodstream, which results in the increased blood glucose level. The evolution and classification of this enzyme has been a matter of debate. In the present study the amino acid sequences of α-Gls from 12 species were aliened and the Phylogenetic trees were constructed. The data indicated t...

Background: Different aspects of acute stroke management and strategies for stroke prevention derive from two viewpoints: specific traditional and historical backgrounds and evidence-based medicine from modern randomized controlled trials (RCTs), meta-analysis and authorized clinical practice guidelines (GLs). Regarding stroke, GLs have been published by national and international organizations...

We study the classical problem of the existence of irreducible plane curves with given degree d and prescribed singularities of topological types S1 ; : : : ; Sr. Our main results concern substantial improvements of the leading coeecients in the asymptotically optimal suucient conditions for complex plane curves which were found in GLS1]. We then transfer these results to real plane curves.

We have been developing a methodology/system called GLS (Global Learning Scheme) for knowledge discovery in databases. The development of GLS has two main aspects. The first is to develop a m&i-strategy system. That is, many kinds of discovery/learning methods are cooperatively used in multiple learning phases for performing multi-aspect intelligent data analysis as well as multi-level conceptu...

Structural equation models (SEMs) can be estimated using a variety of methods. For complete normally distributed data, two asymptotically efficient estimation methods exist: maximum likelihood (ML) and generalized least squares (GLS). With incomplete normally distributed data, an extension of ML called "full information" ML (FIML), is often the estimation method of choice. An extension of GLS t...

The guided local search method has been successfully applied to a significant number of NP-hard optimization problems, producing results of similar caliber, if not better, compared to those obtained from algorithms specially designed for each singular optimization problem. Ranging from the familiar TSP and QAP to general function optimization problems, GLS sits atop many well-known algorithms s...