We present high-quality near-Infrared photometry of four Bulge metal-rich globular clusters, namely: NGC 6304, NGC 6569, NGC 6637 and NGC 6638. By using the observed Colour-Magnitude Diagrams we derived a photometric estimates of the cluster reddening and distance. We performed a detailed analysis of the Red Giant Branch, presenting a complete description of morphologic parameters and evolution...

Korean pine (Pinus koraiensis Sieb. et Zucc.) is the most important forest vegetation in northeast China. The timber quality of this tree species largely driven by branch growth and distribution within crown. Thus, developing diameter length models, especially those that include competition indices, essential. A total 48 trees were selected to conduct destructive measurements characteristics. T...

In this paper, we propose an exact solution method for the Windy Rural Postman Problem (WRPP). The motivation to study this problem comes from some real-life applications, such as garbage collecting in a predefined sector with hills, where the traversing or the servicing speed can change following the direction. We present a Dantzig-Wolfe decomposition and a branch-and-price algorithm to solve ...

The talk presents two non-standard extensions for singlevehicle arc-routing problems a.k.a. postman problems: First, street segments that require a service on both sides of the street can be covered either by two separate services or by a single zigzag service. Instead of deciding the type of service beforehand, we propose to take into account the zigzagging option when designing a tour. We pre...

Forty three infants under 1400 g were fed by a bolus nasogastric, continuous nasogastric, or transpyloric route. There were more complications with transpyloric feeding and no identifiable benefits in the growth rate, oral energy input, or chosen biochemical indices of nutrition. Bolus or continuous nasogastric feeds rather than transpyloric are better routine methods in infants of low birth we...

Climate is a limiting factor in viticulture, as it defines favorable areas, grape cultivars, and agrotechnical activities. In the Sevastopol region, viticulture main promising agricultural branch. Using outputs of regional climate models from CORDEX project, projections agroclimatic conditions region for two future periods (2021–2045 2046–2070) under representative concentration pathways (RCP4....

Serial assessments of neurocognitive functioning in athletes with concussion are commonly used for return to play decisions. This study provides reliable change indices (RCIs) for computerized tests from 40 NCAA Division I collegiate athletes that suffered a sports-related concussion. The normative data that resulted from the RCIs and subsequent analyses of differences between improved and not ...

a Woods Hole Research Center, 149 Woods Hole Road, Falmouth, MA 02540, USA b Tree-Ring Laboratory, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, 61 Route 9W, Palisades, NY 10964, USA c Institut Català de Ciències del Clima (IC3), C/ Dr Trueta 203, 08005 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain d Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA 02542, USA e Biospheric Science Branch, NASA Godd...

In this work we study a suppliers selection and routing problem where a fleet of homogeneous vehicles with a predefined capacity is available for procuring different products from different suppliers with the aim to minimize both the traveling and the purchasing costs. Decisions are further complicated by the presence of pairwise incompatibility constraints among products, implying the impossib...