Main Question: Let C ⊂ P r = CP r be a smooth arithmetically Cohen-Macaulay curve which is cut out scheme theoretically by quadrics. Is the homogeneous ideal of C necessarily cut out by quadrics? In [4], it was shown that the question has an affirmative answer if r ≤ 5. The purpose of this note is to show that the question has a negative answer (there is a counterexample with r = 7). It is a pl...

• Develop exact and approximation algorithms to solve the model. Derived closed-form solutions for three special cases. Conservative algorithm dominates large-scale instances. Seek best budget of uncertainty by cross validation method. This work studies a Robust Multi-product Newsvendor Model with Substitution (R-MNMS), where demand substitution rates are stochastic subject cardinality-constrai...

A new automatic system for the recognition and reconstruction of rescaled and/or rotated partially occluded objects is presented. The objects to be recognized are described by 2D views and each view is occluded by several half-planes. The whole object views and their visible parts (linear cuts) are then stored in a database. To establish if a region R of an input image represents an object poss...

Consider a general class of structural inference rules such as exchange, weakening, contraction and their generalizations. Among them, some are harmless but others do harm to cut elimination. Hence it is natural to ask under which condition cut elimination is preserved when a set of structural rules is added to a structurefree logic. The aim of this work is to give such a condition by using alg...

The procedure for obtaining the particle size distribution by visual inspection of a sample involves stereological errors, given the cut of the sample. A cut particle, supposedly spherical, with radius R, will be counted as a circular particle with radius r, r≤R. The difference between r and R depends on how far from the center of the sphere the cut was performed. This introduces errors when th...

There are many local and greedy algorithms for energy minimization over Markov Random Field (MRF) such as iterated condition mode (ICM) and various gradient descent methods. Local minima solutions can be obtained with simple implementations and usually require smaller computational time than global algorithms. Also, methods such as ICM can be readily implemented in a various difficult problems ...

The main aim of this study was to evaluate the effects of silicon (Si), ethanol (Et), ascorbic acid (AA) and citric acid (CA) on vase life of Narcissus tazetta L. cv. ‘Shahla’cut flowers. For this purpose, an experiment based on completely randomized design was conducted with Si (5, 10 and 20 mM), Et (2 and 4%), AA (100, 200 and 300 mg L-1), CA (100, 200 and 300 mg L-1) and control (distillated...

Two factorial experiments were conducted to study the interactive effects of four levels of sucrose (0, 20, 40 and 60 g l-1), two levels of citric acid (0 and 160 mg l-1) and two levels of one of the following compounds (aluminum sulphate, 0 and 160 mg l-1 and silver nitrate, 0 and 120 g l-1) on vase life and quality attributes of lisianthus cut flowers ‘Mariachi blue fonce.’ The experiments ca...