In many sexually dimorphic species, a mechanism is required to ensure equivalent levels of gene expression from the sex chromosomes. In mammals, such dosage compensation is achieved by X-chromosome ...

Abstract: Plant counting and location are essential for both plant breeding experiments and production agriculture. Stand count indicates the overall emergence of plants compared to the number of ...

The parents were too paralysed to process what had just happened. Before they came back to their senses, their mischievously prodigious child was already out, playing and planning other strategies ...

Abstract: There has been a growing interest in counting crowds through computer vision and machine learning techniques in recent years. Despite that significant progress has been made, most existing ...

The second day of Passover marks the beginning of the ancient tradition known as the counting of the Omer. The word Omer originally referred to a sheaf of barley brought as an offering to the Temple ...

Does your house have a concrete roof or a thatched one? What is your main cereal? Do you have internet access - or just a basic mobile phone? And how many married couples live under your roof? These ...

Odisha is, by any measure, one of India’s most disaster-prone States. Its 574.7-kilometre coastline has absorbed some of the most powerful cyclones to make landfall on the subcontinent. Over two ...