Euphydryas gillettii is a Rocky Mountain endemic butterfy distributed in small, widely separated populations, which appear to be declining. This paper presents the results of a genetic diversity assessment within and among E. gdlettii colonies comprising the Glacier National Park (GNP) metapopulation. Four colonies were assayed within GNP during 1988 and 1989, and two outgroups, colonies from I...

Selecting an appropriate route for a given virtual circuit (VC) request in a virtual path based ATM network satisfying the required Quality of service (QoS) constraints is an important issue. Two of these important constraints are average network delay and reliability of the network. In this paper, a routing strategy based on Genetic Algorithm to find suboptimal routing solution for ATM network...

In the recent progress [BE1], [Me] and [Z2], the wellknown JC (Jacobian conjecture) ([BCW], [E]) has been reduced to a VC (vanishing conjecture) on the Laplace operators and HN (Hessian nilpotent) polynomials (the polynomials whose Hessian matrix are nilpotent). In this paper, we first show the vanishing conjecture above, hence also the JC, is equivalent to a vanishing conjecture for all 2nd or...

In their paper 'Predicting Internet Network Distance with Coordinates-Based Approaches' [1] T. S. Eugene Ng and Hui Zhang from the Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, USA, present a new coordinate-based approach (called 'GNP', short 'Global Network Positioning') to determine the distance between hosts. They compare their system with another coordinate-based approach, the 'Triangulated Heu...

For any agency dealing with the design of the water distribution network, an economic design will be an objective. In this research, Central Force Optimization (CFO) and Differential Evolution (DE) algorithm were used to optimize Ismail Abad water Distribution network. Optimization of the network has been evaluated by developing an optimization model based on CFO and DE algorithm in MATLAB and ...

For investigating the effect of vermicompost (VC) on improving phytoremediation of Pb by sunflower (Helianthus annuus) cultivar Lakumka, a factorial experiment was conducted in the pots containing soil or its mixture with 10% VC, in a greenhouse with controlled condition at 2018. After 3 weeks irrigation with normal water, plants were daily irrigated with high Pb-polluted water (0, 1000, 1500 o...

Recently, an answer-set programming (ASP) formalism of logic programing with the answer-set semantics has been extended to the full first-order setting. Earlier an extension of first-order logic with inductive definitions, the logic FO(ID), was proposed as a knowledge representation formalism and developed as an alternative ASP language. We present characterizations of these formalisms in terms...

Gold nanoparticle (GNP) can be used as a radiation sensitizer in radiotherapy, and many Monte Carlo simulation studies have focused on this issue. A nanodosimetry biophysics Monte Carlo code NASIC was used in this work to study both the physical and biological radiosensitization effect of GNP in the cell environment under the irradiation of X-ray. GNP-cell models were built in the simulation wi...

Generalized MultiProtocol Label Switched (GMPLS) control-plane protocols have been standardized to enable dynamic call-by-call bandwidth sharing in circuit-switched/virtual-circuit (VC) networks. Most GMPLS control-plane implementations within controller cards of circuit/VC switches only support an immediate-request mode of bandwidth sharing because the signaling protocols within the GMPLS cont...