The idea of evolving novel rather than fit solutions has recently been offered as a way to automatically discover the kind of complex solutions that exhibit truly intelligent behavior. So far, novelty search has only been studied in the context of problems where the number of possible “different” solutions has been limited. In this paper, we show, using a task with a much larger solution space,...

conclusions regarding the significant effect of cinnamon on reduction of pain, menstrual bleeding, nausea and vomiting with primary dysmenorrhea without side effects, it can be regarded as a safe and effective treatment for dysmenorrhea in young women. results the mean amount of menstrual bleeding in the cinnamon group was significantly lower than the placebo group (p < 0.05 and p < 0.001, resp...

introduction nausea and vomiting are the most common side effects of chemotherapy in the pediatrics with cancer which affect their quality of life. use of some methods of complementary medicine in leukemia patients is problematic. because, leukemia patients are at risk of infection and bleeding, therefore the use of acupressure, acupuncture, and deep massage can be risky in these patients. slow...

this study was designed to explore the complementary effects of a combination formulation of olive oil, olive and fig fruits on ra remission indicators. a randomized controlled clinical trial was designed. adult ra patients were randomly divided into two groups receiving routine disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (dmards) regimen (control group) and routine dmards regimen plus the herbal sup...

In this paper we consider the NP-hard problem of finding a feasible solution (if any exists) for a generic MIP problem of the form min{cT x : Ax ≥ b, xj integer ∀j ∈ I}. Trivially, a feasible solution can be defined as a point x∗ ∈ P := {x : Ax ≥ b} that is equal to its rounding x̃, where the rounded point x̃ is defined by x̃j := [xj ] if j ∈ I and x̃j := xj otherwise, and [·] represents scalar rou...

We consider a two-player, sequential location game in d-dimensional Euclidean space with arbitrarily distributed consumer demand. The objective for each player is to select locations so as to maximize their market share—the mass of consumers in the vicinity of their chosen locations. At each stage, the two players (Leader and Follower) choose one location each from a feasible set in sequence. W...

Many crowd ideation systems seek to gather scores of ideas from people online. However, this often leads to many bad ideas and duplication. A dedicated facilitator who guides exploration of the solution space is a common and effective strategy for optimizing ideation in face-to-face brainstorming, but has not yet been explored in computer-supported crowd ideation. We introduce IdeaGens, a socia...

We consider two-player random extensive form games where the payoffs at the leaves are independently drawn uniformly at random from a given feasible set C. We study the asymptotic distribution of the subgame perfect equilibrium outcome for binarytrees with increasing depth in various random (or deterministic) assignments of players to nodes. We characterize the assignments under which the asymp...

introduction: central nervous system develops during the first years of life. millions of synapses form among nervous cells before two years of age. the present research was performed to assess the effects of mothers’ training about complementary feeding and developmental skills on growth and development of 5-7 month infants referring to health centers in city of shiraz in southwest of iran. me...