Though official data document that Hispanic youth are at a great risk for early sexual intercourse, STDs, and teen pregnancy, only few etiological studies have been conducted on Hispanic youth; almost no work has examined potential generational differences in these behaviors, and thus, these behaviors may have been mistakenly attributed to cultural differences. The current study examined the re...

As object oriented features are added to programming languages such as C demands upon dynamic memory allocation systems increase Prototyping languages such as Smalltalk and LISP have long rec ognized the impact of garbage collection on improving reliability and programmer productivity but providing garbage collection in C is hard because pointers are di cult to reliably identify Conser vative g...

Cross-generational and cross-dialectal variation in vowels among speakers of American English was examined in terms of vowel identification by listeners and vowel classification using pattern recognition. Listeners from Western North Carolina and Southeastern Wisconsin identified 12 vowel categories produced by 120 speakers stratified by age (old adults, young adults, and children), gender, and...

In this paper, we investigate the sensitivity of a novel Multi-Objective Self-Organizing Migrating Algorithm (MOSOMA) on setting its control parameters. Usually, efficiency and accuracy of searching for a solution depends on the settings of a used stochastic algorithm, because multi-objective optimization problems are highly non-linear. In the paper, the sensitivity analysis is performed exploi...

This paper describes a new evolutionary algorithm for multiobjective optimization, namely Multi-Objective Relative Clustering Genetic Algorithm (MO-RCGA), inspired by concepts borrowed from gene relatedness and kin selection theory. The proposed algorithm clusters the population into different families based on individual kinship, and adaptively chooses suitable individuals for reproduction. Th...