In China, the government and the cigarette industry yearly lose millions in sales and tax revenue because of imitation cigarettes.Usually, visual observation is not enough to identify counterfeiting.An auxiliary analytical method is needed for cigarette brands identification.To this end, we developed a portable, low-cost electronic nose (e-nose) sy

Face recognition performance by computers has been shown to be more accurate than that of humans.However, a bias with soft-biometrics features has been detected.This bias reduces recognition performance when gender is used.Feature selection for gender classification from face images is a difficult problem since faces contain symmetrical and redunda

Muraenidae is a species-rich family, with relationships among genera and species and taxonomy that have not been completely clarified.Few cytogenetic studies have been conducted on this family, and all of them showed the same diploid chromosome number (2n=42) but with conspicuous karyotypic variation among species.The Mediterranean moray eel Gymnot

This experiment was conducted in the poultry field of the Department of AnimalProduction at the College of Agriculture, University of Kirkuk, the experiment aimedto study the effect of the fodder addition of Moringa oleifera leaf powder and probioticson the productive characteristics of broilers.288 chicks of 308 Ross broilers (unsexed)were bred.At

The accurate perception of the surroundings of a vehicle has been the subject of study of numerous automotive researchers for many years.Although several projects in this area have been successfully completed, very few prototypes have actually been industrialized and installed in mass produced cars.This indicates that these research efforts must co