The existence of optimal binary self-dual codes is a long-standing research problem. In this paper, we present some results concerning the decomposition of binary self-dual codes with a dihedral automorphism group D2p, where p is a prime. These results are applied to construct new self-dual codes with length 78 or 116. We obtain 16 inequivalent self-dual [78, 39, 14] codes, four of which have n...

The capacitated vehicle routing problem with sequence-based pallet loading and axle weight constraints is an extension of the classical Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problem (CVRP). It integrates loading constraints in a routing problem and is based on a real-world transportation problem. The demand of the customers consists of pallets. These pallets may be placed in two horizontal rows inside th...

In the opening lines of ‘The postmodernist war on evidence-based practice’ (Porter andO’Halloran, 2009), the authors erect a false binary between health care practice ‘informed by research’ and ‘those who argue that there should be no restrictions on the sources of knowledge used by practitioners’. This, the authors submit, is the distinction between the evidence-based approach and the postmode...

We study the weight distributions of cosets of the first-order Reed–Muller code (1 ) for odd , whose minimum weight is greater than or equal to the so-called quadratic bound. Some general restrictions on the weight distribution of a coset of (1 ) are obtained by partitioning its words according to their weight divisibility. Most notably, we show that there are exactly five weight distributions ...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether patients can accurately replicate and retain weight-bearing restrictions in both stationary (static) and dynamic conditions after autologous chondrocyte implantation (ACI). DESIGN Case series. SETTING Rehabilitation clinic. PARTICIPANTS A consecutive sample of patients (N=48) who had undergone ACI to a medial or lateral femoral condylar defect in the knee. ...

land use is a legal - economic term for how land operation. land use in urban regions have been identified in urban master plan or design hadi (guide plan) and outside the legal boundaries of cities and towns as well as protect the land use or possible changes in land is under the ministry of agriculture. in some cases legal experts have different opinions about the land use. one of them is the...

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