We study shapes given by polynomial lemniscates, and their fingerprints. We focus on the inflection points of fingerprints, their number and geometric meaning. Furthermore, we study dynamics of zeros of lemniscate-generic polynomials and their ‘explosions’ that occur by planting additional zeros into a defining polynomial at a certain moment, and then studying the resulting deformation. We call...

The fireworks from the spectacular emergence of Notch as the protagonist in the etiology of T-ALL are not likely to end any time soon. Indeed, in this issue of Blood, Sulis and colleagues describe yet another sophisticated mechanism by which ligand-independent activation of NOTCH1 is achieved in T-ALL. NOTCH1activating mutations mark more than half of all T-ALL cases, underscoring the fundament...

A set C of reals is said to be negligible if there is no probabilistic algorithm which generates a member of C with positive probability. Various classes have been proven to be negligible, for example the Turing upper-cone of a non-computable real, the class of coherent completions of Peano Arithmetic or the class of reals of minimal degrees. One class of particular interest in the study of neg...

Software estimation models are vital in the software industry, given the fact that most software development projects over-run the time and budget limits. Recently, data mining algorithms have been applied to further improve the prediction accuracy of the software cost estimation models that are routinely used in industry. This paper introduces a novel Swarm Intelligence technique to fine-tune ...

A swarm intelligence based method is presented in this paper to solve the problem of parameterization of given set of planar and spatial data points, which may be uniformly or non-uniformly spaced, for least squares fitting with Bezier curves. The basic framework of the proposed method relies on fireworks algorithm. Performance of the proposed method is tested through several example curves of ...

Seventy-five dogs that showed a fear response to fireworks participated in a double-blinded, placebo-controlled clinical trial to assess the efficacy of a homeopathic remedy for the alleviation of their behavioural signs. Dogs were randomly assigned to one of two treatments; the homeopathic treatment or the placebo treatment. At the baseline assessments the owners identified the behavioural sig...

BACKGROUND The elevation and dissipation of pollutants after the ignition of fireworks in different functional areas of a valley city were investigated. METHODS The Air Quality Index (AQI) as well as inter-day and intra-day concentrations of various air pollutants (PM10, PM2.5, SO2, NO2, CO, O3) were measured during two episodes that took place during Chinese New Year festivities. RESULTS F...

This work presents a new method to enhance the performance of fireworks algorithm generate prime key for multiple users. A threshold technique in image segmentation is used as one major steps. It processing digital image. Some useful algorithms and methods dividing sharing an image, including measuring, recognizing, are common. In this research, we proposed hybrid camel herd (HFCA), where Firew...