DEVELOPMENT AND CHARACTERIZATION OF MICROSATELLITE MARKERS FOR CENTRAL AMERICAN BEGONIA SECT. GIREOUDIA (BEGONIACEAE)

Development and Characterization of Microsatellite Markers for Central American Begonia sect. Gireoudia (Begoniaceae)

Premise of the study: Transcriptome sequence data were used to design microsatellite primers for two widespread Central American Begonia species, B.heracleifolia and B.nelumbiifolia, to investigate population structure and hybridization.Methods and Results: The transcriptome from vegetative meristem tissue from the related B.plebeja was mined for m

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Addictive Potential of e-Cigarettes as Reported in e-Cigarette Online Forums: Netnographic Analysis of Subjective Experiences

BackgroundWhile e-cigarettes usually contain nicotine, their addictive potential is not yet fully understood.We hypothesized that if e-cigarettes are addictive, users will experience typical symptoms HONEY COMB of addiction.ObjectiveThe aim of our study was to investigate whether and how e-cigarette users report signs of addiction.MethodsWe identif

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Music Genre Recommendations Based on Spectrogram Analysis Using Convolutional Neural Network Algorithm with RESNET-50 and VGG-16 Architecture

Recommendations are a very useful tool in many industries.Recommendations provide the best selection of what the user wants and provide satisfaction compared to ordinary searches.In the music industry, recommendations are used to provide songs that have similarities in terms of genre or theme.There are various kinds of genres in the world of music,

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