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Open AccessDetecting intergene correlation changes in microarray analysis: a new approach to gene selection
Microarray technology is commonly used as a simple screening tool with a focus on selecting genes that exhibit extremely large differential expressions between different phenotypes. It lacks the ability to sel...
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Open AccessEvaluation of putative reference genes for gene expression normalization in soybean by quantitative real-time RT-PCR
Real-time quantitative reverse transcription PCR (RT-qPCR) data needs to be normalized for its proper interpretation. Housekee** genes are routinely employed for this purpose, but their expression level cann...
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Open AccessA Multimedia Application: Spatial Perceptual Entropy of Multichannel Audio Signals
Usually multimedia data have to be compressed before transmitting, and higher compression rate, or equivalently lower bitrate, relieves the load of communication channels but impacts negatively the quality. We...
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Open AccessComprehensive Analysis of NAC Domain Transcription Factor Gene Family in Populus trichocarpa
NAC (NAM, ATAF1/2 and CUC2) domain proteins are plant-specific transcriptional factors known to play diverse roles in various plant developmental processes. NAC transcription factors comprise of a large gene fami...
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Use of Speech Technology in Real Life Environment
This paper reports results from two six-month field studies investigating the use of speech-based interactions in real world environments. The first study focused on the use of speech-based dictation/word proc...
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Open AccessTranscription variants of SLA-7, a swine non classical MHC class I gene
In pig, very little information is available on the non classical class I (Ib) genes of the Major Histocompatibility Complex (MHC) i.e. SLA-6, -7 and -8. Our aim was to focus on the transcription pattern of the S...
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Open AccessHierarchical Parallelization of Gene Differential Association Analysis
Microarray gene differential expression analysis is a widely used technique that deals with high dimensional data and is computationally intensive for permutation-based procedures. Microarray gene differential...
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Open AccessCCL2 upregulation triggers hypoxic preconditioning-induced protection from stroke
A brief exposure to systemic hypoxia (i.e., hypoxic preconditioning; HPC) prior to transient middle cerebral artery occlusion (tMCAo) reduces infarct volume, blood-brain barrier disruption, and leukocyte migra...
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Open AccessComprehensive analysis of CCCH zinc finger family in poplar (Populus trichocarpa)
CCCH zinc finger proteins contain a typical motif of three cysteines and one histidine residues and serve regulatory functions at all stages of mRNA metabolism. In plants, CCCH type zinc finger proteins compri...
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Human research capacity in Chinese agbiotech
China's recent R&D investment has resulted in a growth in research capacity and personnel, particularly in the agbiotech sector.
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Open AccessDifferentiated embryonic chondrocyte-expressed gene 1 is associated with hypoxia-inducible factor 1α and Ki67 in human gastric cancer
Gastric cancer is a leading causes of cancer-related deaths ,but the underlying molecular mechanisms of its progression are largely unknown. Differentiated embryonic chondrocyte-expressed gene 1 (DEC1), is an ...
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Open AccessThe pattern of Phosphate transporter 1 genes evolutionary divergence in Glycine maxL.
The Phosphate transporter 1 (PHT1) gene family has crucial roles in phosphate uptake, translocation, remobilization, and optimization of metabolic processes using of Pi. Gene duplications expand the size of gene ...
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Open AccessThe impact of quantile and rank normalization procedures on the testing power of gene differential expression analysis
Quantile and rank normalizations are two widely used pre-processing techniques designed to remove technological noise presented in genomic data. Subsequent statistical analysis such as gene differential expres...
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Open AccessAssessing potential spatial accessibility of health services in rural China: a case study of Donghai county
There is a great health services disparity between urban and rural areas in China. The percentage of people who are unable to access health services due to long travel times increases. This paper takes Donghai...
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Open AccessZircon U-Pb age, geochemical, and Sr-Nd-Pb isotopic constraints on the origin of alkaline intrusions in eastern Shandong Province, China
Alkaline intrusions in the eastern Shandong Province consist of quartz monzonite and granite. U-Pb zircon ages, geochemical data, and Sr-Nd-Pb isotopic data for these rocks are reported in the present paper. L...
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Open AccessPhytohormone and Assimilate Profiles in Emasculated Flowers of the Black Locust (Robinia pseudoacacia) during Development
Emasculation and bagging of flowers, which are widely used in the controlled pollination of monoclinous plants, may induce premature senescence, flower abscission and low fruit set. To determine the mechanism ...
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Modelling the spreading rate of controlled communicable epidemics through an entropy-based thermodynamic model
A model based on a thermodynamic approach is proposed for predicting the dynamics of communicable epidemics assumed to be governed by controlling efforts of multiple scales so that an entropy is associated wit...
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Open AccessUltrasound-mediated synthesis of N,N-bis(phenacyl)aniline under solvent-free conditions
An efficient method for the synthesis of N,N-bis(phenacyl)anilines was developed via smooth condensation of anilines with α-bromoacetophenones in the presence of sodium carbonate as acid acceptor and polyethylene...
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Open AccessConserved CO-FT regulons contribute to the photoperiod flowering control in soybean
CO and FT orthologs, belonging to the BBX and PEBP family, respectively, have important and conserved roles in the photoperiod regulation of flowering time in plants. Soybean genome experienced at least three rou...
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Open AccessExpanded three-channel mid/side coding for three-dimensional multichannel audio systems
Three-dimensional (3D) audio technologies are booming with the success of 3D video technology. The surge in audio channels makes its huge data unacceptable for transmitting bandwidth and storage media, and the...
