Paralytic shellfish poisoning (PSP), due to saxitoxin and related compounds, typically results from the consumption of filter-feeding molluscan shellfish that concentrate toxins from marine dinoflagellates. In addition to these microalgal sources, saxitoxin and related compounds, referred to in this review as STXs, are also produced in freshwater cyanobacteria and have been associated with calc...

Viral insect-borne plant pathogens have devastating impacts in agroecosystems. Vector-borne are often transmitted by generalist insects that move between non-crop and crop hosts. Insect vectors can wide diet breadths, but it is unknown which hosts serve as pathogen reservoirs host harbours the highest density of vectors. In Pacific Northwest USA, pea aphid (Acyrthosiphon pisum) a key virus vect...

In this paper, a Non-dominated Sorting Genetic Algorithm-II (NSGA-II) based approach is presented for distribution system reconfiguration. In contrast to the conventional GA based methods, the proposed approach does not require weighting factors for conversion of multi-objective function into an equivalent single objective function. In order to illustrate the performance of the proposed method,...

Abstract This paper proposes a method for improving the diversity of Pareto front and uniformity non-dominated solution distributions in fast elitist sorting genetic algorithm (NSGA-II), which is an evolutionary multi-objective optimization algorithm. Conventional NSGA-II has excellent convergence to front, but it been reported that some test cases, does not produce more diverse distribution th...

Consistent reconstruction is a method for producing an estimate x̃ ∈ R of a signal x ∈ R if one is given a collection ofN noisy linear measurements qn = 〈x, φn〉+ǫn, 1 ≤ n ≤ N , that have been corrupted by i.i.d. uniform noise {ǫn}n=1. We prove mean squared error bounds for consistent reconstruction when the measurement vectors {φn}n=1 ⊂ R are drawn independently at random from a suitable distrib...

Gene therapy holds substantial promise for the treatment of a broad class of overwhelming human diseases such as cancer and AIDS (Verma & Somia, 1997). An essential procedure in gene therapy program involves the delivery of encoded plasmid genes into the patient’s somatic cells so as to express therapeutic proteins. An ideal strategy for successful gene delivery depends on safe and efficient ge...

Taking into account competitive markets, manufacturers attend more customer’s personalization. Accordingly, build-to-order systems have been given more attention in recent years. In these systems, the customer is a very important asset for us and has been paid less attention in the previous studies. This paper introduces a new build-to-order problem in the supply chain. This study focuses on bo...

In this paper, a preemptive multi-objective multi-mode project scheduling model for resource investment problem is proposed. The first objective function is to minimize the completion time of project (makespan);the second objective function is to minimize the cost of using renewable resources. Non-renewable resources are also considered as parameters in this model. The preemption of activities ...