The retention-releasing patterns of the double-grid grating sieve placed on deck purse seiners were revealed for four case species (Sardina pilchardus, Sardinella aurita, Engraulis encrasicolus and Boops boops) using a simulated data predicted from total length (TL) – maximum height (Hmax) TL width (Wmax) regressions. To calculate these relationships, samples collected during commercial seine o...

This paper studies the problem of orienting all edges of a weighted graph such that the maximum weighted outdegree of vertices is minimized. This problem, which has applications in the guard arrangement for example, can be shown to be NP-hard generally. In this paper we first give optimal orientation algorithms which run in polynomial time for the following special cases: (i) the input is an un...

The watchman route of a polygon is a closed tour that sees all points of the polygon. Computing the shortest such tour is a well-studied problem. Another reasonable optimization criterion is to require that the tour minimizes the hiding time of the points in the polygon, i.e., the maximum time during which any points is not seen by the agent following the tour at unit speed. We call such tours ...

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OBJECTIVE The study investigated the feasibility and potential outcome measures during acute hyperoxia in type 2 diabetes patients (DM2). METHODS Eleven DM2 patients (7 men and 4 women) were included in the study. The patients cycled (30 min at 20% Wmax) whilst breathing three different supplemental oxygen flows (SOF, 5, 10, 15 L min(-1)). During hyperoxic exercise, arterial blood gases and i...

This paper describes an integrated framework for SOC test automation. This framework is based on a new approach for Wrapper/TAM co-optimization based on rectangle packing considering the diagonal length of the rectangles to emphasize on both TAM widths required by a core and its corresponding testing time .In this paper, an efficient algorithm has been proposed to construct wrappers that reduce...

The stability of the plane Couette flow of a viscoelastic fluid adjacent to a flexible surface is analyzed with the help of linear and weakly nonlinear stability theory in the limit of zero Reynolds number. The fluid is described by an Oldroyd-B model, which is parametrized by the viscosity , the relaxation time , and the parameter , which is the ratio of solvent-to-solution viscosity; =0 for a...

BACKGROUND A study was carried out to determine whether rating of dyspnoea by means of a visual analogue scale during a progressive exercise test is affected by the subject's awareness of the progressive nature of the protocol. METHODS Nineteen patients with chronic obstructive lung disease (FEV1 mean (SE) 1.06 (0.07) 1) were studied. A preliminary incremental test was carried out with a work...

The behavior of four inflow performance relationships are analyzed and discussed. Two of them are developed for petroleum systems and two others are developed for geothermal fluid containing high and low salinity respectively. A methodology to determine the maximum flow rate (Wmax) that a well can produce for a specific stage of its productive life, using these inflow relationships is presented...

Surface wetness plays an important role in environmental studies. In particular, it is a major variable for plant disease prediction. Surface wetness is commonly measured with electronic sensors but simulation with a surface wetness model is an alternative. Recently, the increased use of interpolation procedures and atmospheric models to produce site-specific weather products has created a grea...