761 research outputs found
Pyramiding multiple genes for resistance to PVY, TSWV and PMMoV in pepper using molecular markers
Pepper (Capsicum annuum L.) is one of the most important vegetables cultivated worldwide. Many pests and pathogens cause economic yield losses in pepper. Potato virus Y (PVY), Tomato spotted wilt virus (TSWV) and Pepper mild mottle virus (PMMoV) are considered among the most destructive viruses affecting pepper in the world. Because chemical treatments have limited success for managing PVY, TSWV and PMMoV, resistant varieties are considered to be the most effective means of controlling these viruses. In this study, resistance genes to these viruses were successfully transferred to the superior sweet Charleston pepper line 'Y-CAR' using molecular markers and biological assays. As a result, a new line which is resistant to PVY, TSWV and PMMoV was developed. The results also showed the applicability of a pyramiding strategy for breeding multiple virus resistance in pepper. © Verlag Eugen Ulmer KG, Stuttgart.Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey, TEYDEP foundation (3080171
Neutrino Physics and Nuclear Axial Two-Body Interactions
We consider the counter-term describing isoscalar axial two-body currents in
the nucleon-nucleon interaction, L1A, in the effective field theory approach.
We determine this quantity using the solar neutrino data. We investigate the
variation of L1A when different sets of data are used.Comment: 8 pages with 4 figures. To be published in the Proceedings of the
Conference "Blueprints For The Nucleus: From First Principles to Collective
Motion" held at Feza Gursey Institute, Istanbul, Turkey; May 17 -22, 200
GEOSPATIAL DATABASE UPDATING SYSTEM with WMS and DIRECT CONNECTION METHOD
The demand for up-to-date geospatial data is in an upward trend. This brings a continuous and sustainable review and update of the geospatial data itself and database design. Turkish Topographic Vector Database (TOPOVT) is the main database of Turkey consisting 1 : 25.000 and higher scale resolution 3D topographic vector data covering whole country. It also consists of contours and geonames. TOPOVT has been and is still being produced by General Command of Mapping of Turkey mainly from 30 cm resolution stereo aerial photos and completed in the field. TOPOVT is seamless and topologic database. The updating objective is five years cycle. The first production cycle of TOPOVT in vector has been completed recently. Before the updating cycle began, a system was designed to update TOPOVT efficiently and without losing any information content. It also holds historical background of the features updated.With this topographic data update system, geospatial data can be updated rapidly and served to the users. Hereby both the process for map printing fastens and answers to the need of updated data for the TOPOVT database can be achieved. With this system, the data which will be updated can be displayed on the personal computer by TOPOVT database connection and the users can perform add, update and delete actions in the data according to their authorization. All the updates executed in the field can be monitored on the TOPOVT database in real time via internet connection.</p
The Star Formation Rate in the Reionization Era as Indicated by Gamma-ray Bursts
High-redshift gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) offer an extraordinary opportunity to
study aspects of the early Universe, including the cosmic star formation rate
(SFR). Motivated by the two recent highest-z GRBs, GRB 080913 at z = 6.7 and
GRB 090423 at z = 8.1, and more than four years of Swift observations, we first
confirm that the GRB rate does not trace the SFR in an unbiased way. Correcting
for this, we find that the implied SFR to beyond z = 8 is consistent with
LBG-based measurements after accounting for unseen galaxies at the faint end of
the UV luminosity function. We show that this provides support for the
integrated star formation in the range 6 < z < 8 to have been alone sufficient
to reionize the Universe.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figures; modified to match version accepted for
publication in ApJ Letter
Constraints on Neutrino Parameters from Neutral-Current Solar Neutrino Measurements
We generalize the pull approach to define the function to the
analysis of the data with correlated statistical errors. We apply this method
to the analysis of the Sudbury Neutrino Collaboration data obtained in the
salt-phase. In the global analysis of all the solar neutrino and KamLAND data
we find the best fit (minimum ) values of neutrino parameters to be
and
eV. We confirm that the maximal mixing is strongly disfavored while the
bounds on are significantly strengthened.Comment: 6 figures. Some typos are corrected, figures are visually improve
Stationary State Solutions of a Bond Diluted Kinetic Ising Model: An Effective-Field Theory Analysis
We have examined the stationary state solutions of a bond diluted kinetic
Ising model under a time dependent oscillating magnetic field within the
effective-field theory (EFT) for a honeycomb lattice . Time evolution of
the system has been modeled with a formalism of master equation. The effects of
the bond dilution, as well as the frequency and amplitude of
the external field on the dynamic phase diagrams have been discussed in detail.
We have found that the system exhibits the first order phase transition with a
dynamic tricritical point (DTCP) at low temperature and high amplitude regions,
in contrast to the previously published results for the pure case \cite{Ling}.
Bond dilution process on the kinetic Ising model gives rise to a number of
interesting and unusual phenomena such as reentrant phenomena and has a
tendency to destruct the first-order transitions and the DTCP. Moreover, we
have investigated the variation of the bond percolation threshold as functions
of the amplitude and frequency of the oscillating field.Comment: 8 pages, 4 figure
Accelerated hand bone mineral density loss is associated with progressive joint damage in hands and feet in recent-onset rheumatoid arthritis
Introduction: To investigate whether accelerated hand bone mineral density (BMD) loss is associated with progressive joint damage in hands and feet in the first year of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and whether it is an independent predictor of subsequent progressive total joint damage after 4 years.
Methods: In 256 recent-onset RA patients, baseline and 1-year hand BMD was measured in metacarpals 2-4 by digital X-ray radiogrammetry. Joint damage in hands and feet were scored in random order according to the Sharp-van der Heijde method at baseline and yearly up to 4 years.
Results: 68% of the patients had accelerated hand BMD loss (>-0.003 g/cm(2)) in the first year of RA. Hand BMD loss was associated with progressive joint damage after 1 year both in hands and feet with odds ratios (OR) (95% confidence intervals [CI]) of 5.3 (1.3-20.9) and 3.1 (1.0-9.7). In univariate analysis, hand BMD loss in the first year was a predictor of subsequent progressive total joint damage after 4 years with an OR (95% CI) of 3.1 (1.3-7.6). Multivariate analysis showed that only progressive joint damage in the first year and anti-citrullinated protein antibody positivity were independent predictors of long-term progressive joint damage.
Conclusions: In the first year of RA, accelerated hand BMD loss is associated with progressive joint damage in both hands and feet. Hand BMD loss in the first year of recent-onset RA predicts subsequent progressive total joint damage, however not independent of progressive joint damage in the first year.Pathophysiology and treatment of rheumatic disease
Effective use of personal health records to support emergency services
Smart City systems capture and exchange information with the aim to improve public services. Particularly, healthcare data could help emergency services to plan resources and make life-saving decisions. However, the delivery of healthcare information to emergency bodies must be balanced against the concerns related to citizens’ privacy. Besides, emergency services face challenges in interpreting this data; the heterogeneity of sources and a large amount of information available represent a significant barrier. In this paper, we focus on a case study involving the use of personal health records to support emergency services in the context of a fire building evacuation. We propose a methodology involving a knowledge engineering approach and a common-sense knowledge base to address the problem of deriving useful information from health records and, at the same time, preserve citizens’ privacy. We perform extensive experiments involving a synthetic dataset of health records and a curated gold standard to demonstrate how our approach allows us to identify vulnerable people and interpret their particular needs while avoiding the disclosure of personal information
Gamma-Ray Constraints on Maximum Cosmogenic Neutrino Fluxes and UHECR Source Evolution Models
The dip model assumes that the ultra-high energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) above
10 eV consist exclusively of protons and is consistent with the spectrum
and composition measure by HiRes. Here we present the range of cosmogenic
neutrino fluxes in the dip-model which are compatible with a recent
determination of the extragalactic very high energy (VHE) gamma-ray diffuse
background derived from 2.5 years of Fermi/LAT data. We show that the largest
fluxes predicted in the dip model would be detectable by IceCube in about 10
years of observation and are within the reach of a few years of observation
with the ARA project. In the incomplete UHECR model in which protons are
assumed to dominate only above 10 eV, the cosmogenic neutrino fluxes
could be a factor of 2 or 3 larger. Any fraction of heavier nuclei in the UHECR
at these energies would reduce the maximum cosmogenic neutrino fluxes. We also
consider here special evolution models in which the UHECR sources are assumed
to have the same evolution of either the star formation rate (SFR), or the
gamma-ray burst (GRB) rate, or the active galactic nuclei (AGN) rate in the
Universe and found that the last two are disfavored (and in the dip model
rejected) by the new VHE gamma-ray background.Comment: 19 pages, 16 figures, JHEP3.cls needed to typese
Improving genome assemblies using multi-platform sequence data
Accurate de novo assembly using short reads generated by next generation sequencing technologies is still an open problem. Although there are several assembly algorithms developed for data generated with different sequencing technologies, and some that can make use of hybrid data, the assemblies are still far from being perfect. There is still a need for computational approaches to improve draft assemblies. Here we propose a new method to correct assembly mistakes when there are multiple types of data generated using different sequencing technologies that have different strengths and biases. We exploit the assembly of highly accurate short reads to correct the contigs obtained from less accurate long reads. We apply our method to Illumina, 454, and Ion Torrent data, and also compare our results with existing hybrid assemblers, Celera and Masurca. © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
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