The present study was performed to evaluate the on-station growth performance of local and Dorper × local crossbred sheep in eastern Amhara region, Ethiopia. Data on 302 lambs collected over a 4-year period (2009 to 2012) on local and Dorper × local crossbred sheep at Sirinka breeding, evaluation and distribution site were used in this study. Fixed effects considered were breed, lamb sex, birth...

Palmprint recognition is a new biometrics system based on physiological characteristics of the palmprint, which includes rich, stable, and unique features such as lines, points, and texture. Texture is one of the most important features extracted from low resolution images. In this paper, a new local descriptor, Local Composition Derivative Pattern (LCDP) is proposed to extract smartly stronger...

the present study was performed to evaluate the on-station growth performance of local and dorper × local crossbred sheep in eastern amhara region, ethiopia. data on 302 lambs collected over a 4-year period (2009 to 2012) on local and dorper × local crossbred sheep at sirinka breeding, evaluation and distribution site were used in this study. fixed effects considered were breed, lamb sex, birth...

In this paper, we study the complexity of computing locally optimal solutions for weighted versions of standard set problems such as SETCOVER, SETPACKING, and many more. For our investigation, we use the framework of PLS, as defined in Johnson et al., [13]. We show that for most of these problems, computing a locally optimal solution is already PLS-complete for a simple natural neighborhood of ...

A wireless local loop connects customer premise equipment to the local exchange on the public switched telephone network using radio signals. Compared to wireline local loops, wireless local loops are easier to deploy and less costly to maintain. One of the most important considerations in deploying wireless local loops is to determine the best channel allocation algorithm. This paper provides ...

Local government remains in a state of flux in Great Britain. Currently being 'modernised' by the New Labour Government, it has been subject to radical programmes of reform for most of the last twenty years. This paper will describe and analyse those programmes of reform focusing attention on the kinds of reform strategy that have been introduced, the goals of those reform strategies (legitimac...

Local scouring around bridge piers is a natural phenomenon caused by the erosive process of flowing stream on alluvial beds. The 3D flow field around bridge piers interacting with the bed materials increases complexity of local scour process. The local scour depth develops in accelerated flows and if it is not predicted correctly, the bottom level of local scour hole will exceed the original le...

This paper presents a simple iterated local search metaheuristic incorporating a k-opt local search (KLS), called Iterated KLS (IKLS for short), for solving the maximum clique problem (MCP). IKLS consists of three components: LocalSearch at which KLS is used, a Kick called LEC-Kick that escapes from local optima, and Restart that occasionally diversifies the search by moving to other points in ...

In this paper, we apply the local fractional Adomian decomposition and variational iteration methods to obtain the analytic approximate solutions of Fredholm integral equations of the second kind within local fractional derivative operators. The iteration procedure is based on local fractional derivative. The obtained results reveal that the proposed methods are very efficient and simple tools ...