Improving Behavioral-Based Safety Training in Using Verbal Commands Through a Theory-Driven and Feedback-Based Nonimmersive Virtual Reality Game: Development and Usability Study.

Background: The construction, chemical, aviation, medical, and health care industries have used serious games for safety training. To our knowledge, serious games have not been developed focusing on behavioral change to improve safety through the use of verbal commands and instilling players with heightened awareness of their spatial proximity to other people in their surroundings.

Objective: We aimed to develop a theory-driven serious game for improving safety behavior using verbal commands and validate the implementation of the theoretical frameworks used for game development.

Novel and stable QTL regions conferring resistance to MYMV disease and its inheritance in blackgram ( (L.) Hepper).

Mungbean yellow mosaic virus (MYMV) disease is a significant constraint for blackgram production. The present study employed a mapping population derived from a cross between susceptible (MDU 1) and resistant (TU 68) genotypes to identify quantitative trait loci (QTL) associated with MYMV disease resistance in addition to bruchine resistance loci identified from the previous study. Phenotyping was carried out in F2 generation under the disease spreader row method at field condition.

Numerical Characterization of DNA Sequences for Alignment-free Sequence Comparison - A Review.

Background: Biological macromolecules, namely, DNA, RNA, and protein, have their building blocks organized in a particular sequence and the sequential arrangement encodes the evolutionary history of the organism (species). Hence, biological sequences have been used for studying evolutionary relationships among the species. This is usually carried out by Multiple Sequence Algorithms (MSA).

Role of Thrips palmi and Parthenium hysterophorus pollen in active spread of tobacco streak virus in the cotton ecosystem.

Tobacco streak virus incidence in the cotton field, cv.CO14 at Department of Cotton, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University (TNAU), Coimbatore, India was nearly 36.50 %.

Alignment-free sequence comparison using N-dimensional similarity space.

Several alignment free sequence comparison methods are available and they use similarity, based on a particular numerical descriptor of biological sequences. Any loss of information incurred in the transformation of a sequence into a numerical descriptor affects the results. A pool of descriptors that use different algorithms in their computation is expected to suffer minimum loss of information and an attempt is made in this direction to study the similarity of DNA sequences that are homogenous or heterogeneous.