MOESM3 of Quantitative trait loci for cell wall composition traits measured using near-infrared spectroscopy in the model C4 perennial grass Panicum hallii

Additional file 3. Panicum hallii genetic map construction. Detailed methods regarding linkage map construction from RNA-seq based expression polymorphism data

A Decision Support System to Evaluate Suppliers in the Context of Global Service Providers

In this paper, we present a decision support system (DSS) developed for a global service provider (GSP), which solves a real-world supplier selection problem. The GSP operates in the Italian market of facility management, supplying customers with a variety of services. These services are subcontracted to external qualified suppliers spread all over Italy and chosen on the basis of several criteria, such as service quality, availability and proximity. Selecting the best supplier is a complex task due to the large number of suppliers and the great variety of facility management services offered by the GSP. In the proposed DSS, the choice of the best supplier for a certain service is made according to a thorough multi-criteria analysis. The weights for the criteria were generated by implementing both a simplified analytic hierarchy process and a revised Simos' procedure, later validated by the decision makers at the GSP. The DSS provides quick access to historical performance data, visual tools to aid decisions, and a suggested ranked list of suppliers for each given contract. The effectiveness of the proposed system was assessed by means of extensive simulations on a seven-year period of real-data and several rounds of validation with the company

Distribution of GO-slim annotations of putative gene products predicted from switchgrass BAC-end sequences.

<p>A, Cellular locations −12 groups of gene ontology; B, Biological processes −11 groups of gene ontology; C, Molecular functions −15 groups of gene ontology terms.</p

Analysis of Simple Sequence Repeats (SSRs) from BAC-end sequences.

<p><b>a</b>) Distribution of total number of repeat loci. The x-axis represents the length of SSRs and the y-axis indicates total number of motifs observed. <b>b</b>) Distribution of SSR trimers. X-axis represents the various trinucleotide SSRs and the y-axis represents number of SSRs.</p

Micro-collinearity between switchgrass BAC clones and orthologous regions from <i>Brachypodium</i> (<i>Bd</i>), rice (<i>Os</i>), sorghum (<i>Sb</i>) and maize (<i>Zm</i>).

<p>Colored boxes along the physical location in the genome of each species represent genes and arrows in the colored boxes indicate the transcriptional orientation of each gene. Orthologous genes are given the same color and are connected by dotted lines. Grey bars represent genes from respective genomes lacking syntenic match in switchgrass. Dashed lines represent breaks in contiguity to allow larger genomic regions of the chromosomes to fit in the scale of the figures and the genes from these regions lacking syntenic match have not been plotted. The scale is shown at the bottom of each section. NCBI accession numbers for switchgrass BAC clones are given at top left of each section. Detailed information on accession numbers and gene names is given in <a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0033892#pone.0033892.s008" target="_blank">File S7</a>.</p

Distribution of BAC end sequences that show significant homology to other BES.

<p>The x-axis represents the number of matches and y-axis contains total number of BAC-end sequences.</p

Characteristics of the switchgrass BAC libraries.

<p>Characteristics of the switchgrass BAC libraries.</p

Estimation of organellar DNA contamination and representation of low-copy genes.

<p>Switchgrass BAC libraries (Pv_ABa and Pv_ABb) were screened by high-density filter hybridizations to estimate chloroplast- or mitochondrial-specific DNA and representation of single/low copy genes. Representative filter hybridization data used to estimate chloroplast (A, D) and mitochondrial (B, E) contaminants, and the library coverage based on the presence of a single copy gene, <i>brittle culm 10</i> (C, F). Black arrows in C and F identify the signal from <i>BC10</i> probes.</p

Determination and distribution of switchgrass BAC clone insert sizes.

<p>DNA was digested from >180 randomly selected BAC clones from Pv_ABa and Pv_ABb libraries and analyzed by Pulsed Field Gel Electrophoresis. A, C), Representative gel pictures of <i>Not</i>I digested BAC DNA from Pv_ABa and Pv_ABb libraries, respectively. B, D) Estimated BAC insert sizes with their relative frequencies.</p

Fashion: from Attitudes to Poses

Borrowing some of Aby Warburg’s methods from his Mnemosyne Atlas, this paper experiments with an anti-linear, non-teleological method of writing fashion history. It investigates fashion movement, gesture and pose, and their afterlife in images and objects. It thus looks at the intersection of time and the gesture, particularly in relation to the idea of the ‘now’, a central organising principle of fashion. To this end, it juxtaposes images of the body in motion from sources as varied as scientific photography, etiquette manuals and fashion magazines. Spanning three centuries, though not chronologically, the images show a range of activities: not only fashion posing, but also tennis-playing, duelling, dancing, military marching, social gestures, and going to the races. The paper proposes that each image is charged with some quality or attribute that is also immanent in one or more of the others, even though they have no causal or temporal relationship