Abstract Scomberoides commersonnianus is one of the commercially important fishes of the family Carangidae. In this study, 563 specimens (292 males, 247 females, and 24 sexually unknown ones) were collected from the north-west of the Persian Gulf. Length-weight relationships and condition factors were determined for each sex in four length classes within different seasons. In general, the growt...

Sequential pattern mining is an important data mining problem with broad applications. However, it is also a challenging problem since the mining may have to generate or examine a combinatorially explosive number of intermediate subsequences. Recent studies have developed two major classes of sequential pattern mining methods: (1) a candidate generation-and-test approach, represented by (i) GSP...

Mining frequent tree patterns is an important research problems with broad applications in bioinformatics, digital library, e-commerce, and so on. Previous studies highly suggested that pattern-growth methods are efficient in frequent pattern mining. In this paper, we systematically develop the pattern growth methods for mining frequent tree patterns. Two algorithms, Chopper and XSpanner, are d...

We investigate the short and long run effects of prices and software availability on the category-level diffusion of 32/64 bit video-game consoles in the US. We adopt an estimation framework that allows for a flexible intrinsic growth pattern for the hardware consoles, and uses instrumental variables to control for the potential endogeneity of prices. We find significant long-term effects of pr...

Lattice match is important for epitaxial growth. We show that a competing mechanism, electronic match, can dominate at small film thicknesses for metal-semiconductor systems, where quantum confinement and symmetry requirements may favor a different growth pattern. For Pb(111) on Ge(111), an accidental lattice match leads to a √3 × √3 configuration involving a 30° in-plane rotation at large film...

The present article is on a short-term longitudinal growth study, conducted for a period of one year, on squatter children of two social groups (Hindu and Muslim), belonging to age groups 3, 4 and 5 years. Here attempts have been made to observe the similarities and differences in growth pattern of children of each age group belonging to two social groups and to see the effect of social group a...