This study was conducted to evaluate the effect of preservative solutions on vase life, number of bacteria in the end of stem and in vase solution of cut gerbera 'Double Dutch' and 'Red Explotion'. Cut flowers were pulse-treated with nano-silver (2, 4, 6, 8 or 10 mg L-1) and thymol (12.5, 25, 50, 75 or 100 mg L-1) +5 % sucrose. Experiment was conducted in completely randomized design with 5 rep...

Background and Objectives: Production and consumption of freshly-cut fruits have been increased in recent decades.  One of the major problems in storage of freshly-cut fruits, the color change, is a result of the oxidative reactions of phenolic compounds by polyphenol oxidases. Various treatments such as coating and refrigeration are used to improve quality and shelf-life of the fresh-cut fruit...

In this paper, we propose a method to obtain fuzzy solutions of duality fully fuzzy linear system (DFFLS) of the form ÃX̃ = B̃X̃ + C̃, where Ã, B̃ are fuzzy matrices and C̃, X̃ are fuzzy number vectors. To this end, we solve the 1-cut of DFFLS (which is a crisp system here) ,then some unknown spreads are allocated to any row of a 1-cut of dual fully fuzzy linear system in 1-cut position. Also, by usin...

2. Max-Cut Revisited As in last week’s lecture, we approximate solutions to Max-Cut using Goemans’s and Williamson’s αGW = 0.878-approximation. Specifically, we seek max ∑ (i,j)∈E 1 4 ∥∥vi − vj∥∥2 subject to the constraint that ∀i, ‖vi‖ = 1. We can visualize this by drawing the vectors restricted to a unit circle, as seen in the figure to the left. There is an appealing geometric intuition here...

We calculate genus one corrections to Hermitian one-matrix model solution with arbitrary number of cuts directly from the loop equation confirming the answer previously obtained from algebro-geometrical considerations and generalizing it to the case of arbitrary potentials.

Abstract. We present a Branch-and-Cut algorithm where the volume algorithm is applied instead of the traditionally used dual simplex algorithm to the linear programming relaxations in the root node of the search tree. This means that we use fast approximate solutions to these linear programs instead of exact but slower solutions. We present computational results with the Steiner tree and Max-Cu...

This paper presents exact solution methods for analyzing vulnerability of electric power networks to a certain kind of undetectable attacks known as false data injection attacks. We show that the problems of finding the minimum number of measurement points to be attacked undetectably reduce to minimum cut problems on hypergraphs, which admit efficient combinatorial algorithms. Experimental resu...

The abscission of Alstroemeria petals is the serious problem at the industry of cut flowers of this plant. In this study, cut Alstroemeria cv. Bridal flowers were pulsed with solutions containing natural essential oil carvacrol, gibberellic acid and benzyladenine (50 and 100 mg L-1), -5-sulfosalicylic acid (1 and 1.5 mM) and sucrose (5 and 10%) for 24 hours. The distilled water was used as cont...