In the era of huge datasets, the top-k search becomes an effective way to decrease the search time of top-k objects. The original top-k search requires a monotone combination function and lists of objects ordered by attribute values. Our approach of the top-k search is motivated by complex user preferences over product catalogues. Such user preferences are composed of the local user preferences...

In this article, first we generalize the concept of complete parts in hyperrings by introducing the concept R-parts in hyperrings and then we study R-closures in hyperrings. Finally we characterize R-closures in hyperfields.

In 2003 and 2004, Þeld studies were conducted at three sites in Zhejiang Province in China to assess the impacts ofBacillus thuringiensis(Bt)Berliner riceexpressing a fusedgeneof cry1Ab and cry1Ac on nontarget planthoppers and leafhoppers. Populations in Bt plots were sampled with yellow sticky card traps, Malaise traps, and a vacuum-suction machine, and compared with samples from non-Bt contro...

Systematic semantic ambiguities result from the interaction of the two operations that are involved in resolving ellipsis in the presence of scoping elements such as quantiiers and intensional operators: scope determination for the scoping elements and resolution of the elided relation. A variety of problematic examples previously noted | by Sag, Hirschb uhler, Gawron and Peters, Harper, and ot...

This study identified statistically significant, and practically important, seasonal pheromone trap response dynamics of Euschistus conspersus (Uhler) in processing tomatoes in 12 fields over 5 years in California, USA. Commercial fields were monitored weekly using traps baited with Euschistus spp. pheromone and direct canopy shake samples. Regression analysis determined no significant relation...