Abstract The short and similar sized chromosomes of Acropora pose a challenge for karyotyping.Conventional methods, such as staining of heterochromatic regions, provide unclear banding patterns that hamper identification of such chromosomes.In this study, we used short single-sequence probes from tandemly repetitive 5S ribosomal RNA (rRNA) and core

Developing innovative systems and operations to monitor forests and send alerts in dangerous situations, such as fires, has become, over the years, a necessary task to protect Apple Corer forests.In this work, a Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) is employed for forest data acquisition to identify abrupt anomalies when a fire ignition starts.Even though

Autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) for planetary exploration missions require increased onboard mission-planning and decision-making capabilities to access full operational potential in remote environments (e.g., Antarctica, Mars or Titan).However, the uncertainty introduced by the environment and the limitation of available sensors has pres

Background: Virtual reality (VR) CHICORY programs based on motion capture camera are the most convenient and cost-effective approaches for remote rehabilitation.Assessment of physical function is critical for providing optimal VR rehabilitation training; however, direct muscle strength measurement using camera-based kinematic data is impracticable.

Metaheuristic optimization is considered one of the most efficient and powerful techniques of recent decades as it can deal effectively with complex optimization problems.The performance of the optimization technique relies on two main components: exploration and exploitation.Unfortunately, the performance is limited by a weakness in one of the com