High-quality Filtering Research Articles

Insight into the genomic diversity: Genome wide association study unveils the SNP diversity in horsgram germplsam

Genome wide association study (GWAS) was performed to identify loci associated with three agronomic traits namely seeds per pod, pods per plant and number of seeds per plant of horsegram (Macrotyloma uniflorum). Total 87 accesions of horsegram from different geographical regions of India and one wild relative from Australia were utilised for the genome wide association studies. The genotyping was carried out using genotype-by-sequencing technology and after high quality filtering, minor allele frequency of 0.05, a total of 55,656 quality SNPs were utilised for determining Marker-Trait Association. The LD decay varied across the chromosomes form 8 kb to 300 kb. Further, the population structure analysis has clustered the accession into three subpopulations. All the 88 accessions of horsegram were evaluated at Palampur (32.1109° N, 76.5363° E) and Bajaura (31.8465°N, 77.1605°E) locations of North-Western Himalayan region, India from. In the current study, 143 MTAs associations were observed for seeds per pod distributed on all 8 chromosomes, 2 for pods per plant at chromosomes 2 and 3 and 1 for number of seeds per plant at chromosome 7. However, total 11 stable QTLs (9 for number of seeds per plant and 2 for pods per plant) were also identified. These QTLs can serve as a potential source for marker assisted selection. The genes identified within and in proximity to the stable QTLs will serve as a bridge between genetic information and its practical application for crop improvement.

Whole-exome sequencing of the mummified remains of Cangrande della Scala (1291\u20131329 CE) indicates the first known case of late-onset Pompe disease

Mummified remains of relevant historical figures are nowadays an important source of information to retrace data concerning their private life and health, especially when historical archives are not available. Next-generation-sequencing was proved to be a valuable tool to unravel the characteristics of these individuals through their genetic heritage. Using the strictest criteria currently available for the validation of ancient DNA sequences, whole-genome and whole-exome sequencing were generated from the mummy remains of an Italian nobleman died almost 700 years ago, Cangrande della Scala. While its genome sequencing could not yield sufficient coverage for in depth investigation, exome sequencing could overcome the limitations of this approach to achieve significantly high coverage on coding regions, thus allowing to perform the first extensive exome analysis of a mummy genome. Similar to a standard “clinical exome analysis” conducted on modern DNA, an in-depth variant annotation, high-quality filtering and interpretation was performed, leading to the identification of a genotype associated with late-onset Pompe disease (glycogen storage disease type II). This genetic diagnosis was concordant with the limited clinical history available for Cangrande della Scala, who likely represents the earliest known case of this autosomal recessive metabolic disorder.

Evaluation of the probability of miners’ protection while using filtering respirators

Objective of the research is to evaluate the probability of deterioration of the protection of miners’ respiratory organs while using filtering respirators in terms of coal mines under the coal mine conditions and to elaborate recommendations for the reduction of possible occupational disease risks. A Markovian process theory has been applied to solve the formulated problem. It has been determined that the probability of deterioration of the protection of a worker wearing a filtering respirator is up to 50%, which is stipulated by the lack of corresponding training as for the correct filtering respirator use, negligence of the physical load and its duration during the respirator selection, and possible mistakes during its operation. Reduction of the occupational disease risks is possible only in terms of the use of high-quality filtering respirator under conditions of its correct selection, maintenance and use by the trained miners with the preliminary checking of its relevance to the coal mine conditions. It has been shown that the development of a respiratory protection programme at an enterprise is the efficient tool to provide a miner with high-quality and appropriate filtering devices for the respiratory protection.

实现高品质滤波功能的一维光子晶体量子阱滤波器

实现高品质滤波功能的一维光子晶体量子阱滤波器

Novel optical comb filter based on full-duty-cycle sampled fiber Bragg grating with spectral Talbot effect

Spectral Talbot effect in full-duty-cycle sampled fiber Bragg grating is proposed and numerically demonstrated for the first time. Based on analysis and simulations, it is shown that high-performance comb filters can be realized with the proposed structure. Moreover, it is found that channel count scales linearly with the number of samples and that high-quality filtering is still available with some fabrication errors.

Projet CORAIL

This article shows how a high-quality filtering architecture for targetted documents can be achieved by adapting the intex system to the domain (i.e. ‘economic intelligence’), when expressed in finite state automata filters. A push system named corail (‘request composition by linguistic intelligent agents’) is described, developed by a consortium comprising Thomson-CSF Corporate Laboratory (senior partner), Informatique-CDC, the University of Paris X/CRIS, and the ladl. Both practical and theoretical issues regarding the use of finite state automata are discussed, as for example the notion of the ‘automaton classes’ which are to be used as a paraphrasing agent in the process of document filtering. This project can be considered as an example of how linguistics and computer science can interact in anatural language processing task to meet high-quality standards, namely avoiding noise and reducing silence, thus offering an alternative solution to traditional push systems based on simple keyword-matching. A prototype of the corail system is now operational at Thomson-CSF Central Laboratory and Informatique-CDC.

Exact antialiasing of textured terrain models

We introduce a fast area-sampling antialiasing technique for textured terrain models. We scan the model in image order, averaging the pixel footprint values. The technique samples all, but only, the visible parts. It improves previous texture mapping methods that ignore selfoccluded footprints. It is superior to super-sampling. The image quality is assessed in both spatial and temporal domains. The good precision of the sampling process in the spatial domain provides an alias-free temporal domain. The low computational cost of the rendering technique and its high-quality filtering in the spatiotemporal domain offer a tool for real-time rendering of discrete terrain models.

A high-quality filtering using forward texture mapping

Texture mapping is a very popular technique used to provide more realism in image synthesis. Texture compression induced by geometric transformations creates serious aliasing artifacts appearing essentially as well-known “Moiré” patterns. A simple and high-quality texture mapping technique using a forward mapping is presented. This new method very efficiently avoids texture aliasing artifacts by using an accurate convolution obtained naturally from forward mapping. In addition to a high-quality texture mapping, antialiasing of the final image contours is directly produced by this method.

Filtering by repeated integration

Many applications of digital filtering require a space variant filter - one whose shape or size varies with position. The usual algorithm for such filters, direct convolution, is very costly for wide kernels. Image prefiltering provides an efficient alternative. We explore one prefiltering technique, repeated integration , which is a generalization of Crow's summed area table .We find that convolution of a signal with any piecewise polynomial kernel of degree n --1 can be computed by integrating the signal n times and point sampling it several times for each output sample. The use of second or higher order integration permits relatively high quality filtering. The advantage over direct convolution is that the cost of repeated integration filtering does not increase with filter width. Generalization to two-dimensional image filtering is straightforward. Implementations of the simple technique are presented in both preprocessing and stream processing styles.