The multivariate analyses are useful tools to estimate the genetic variability between accessions. In the breeding programs, the Ward-Modified Location Model (MLM) multivariate method has been a powerful strategy to quantify variability using quantitative and qualitative variables simultaneously. The present study was proposed in view of the dearth of information about popcorn breeding programs...

We describe a fast multi-level layout for visualizing social networks, which can visualize social networks high quality and rapidly. There are two innovations in our fast multi-level layout. Firstly, we proposed a new graph multi-layered compression method based on random walk. The multi-layered compression process groups vertices to form “planet” systems and then abstract these “planet” system...

We consider the construction of minimal multi-layered perceptrons for solving combinatorial optimization problems. Though general in nature, the construction method is presented as a case study for the sorting problem. The presentation starts with an 0((n!)2) three-layered perceptron based on complete enumeration, that solves the sorting problem of n numbers. This network is then gradually redu...

We study vibrations of singleand multi-layered rectangular graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) using molecular mechanics (MM) simulations by employing the MM3 potential. Two sets of boundary conditions are considered, namely, clamping atoms on either all four edges (CCCC) or on the two small edges (CFCF). Furthermore, we consider two scenarios for a single-layered GNR – one in which an interior atom is...

Research about the effect of cooperative learning settings faces the challenge of dealing with hierarchical data where observations regarding the learners are not stochastically independent. Standard methods like ANOVAs cannot deal with such data adequately. The article introduces multilevel modelling (MLM) as a statistical approach adequate for nested data. MLM allows taking into account inter...

Inter-cell interference leads to severe performance degradation in cellular networks, and the study of multi-user interference channel is the corner stone for solving this problem. Amplitude-space layered interference alignment (IA), as an effective complementation to the vector-space IA, is a promising method to increase the data rate in static interference channels. However, recent studies of...

Pioneering in the metabolism of noncultivable mycobacteria , Gray ( 5), Hanks (6), and Hanks and Gray ( 8) searched systematically for s u bst ra te s as prospective e ne rgy sources for M. leprae (MI) and M. lepraemurium (Mlm). After several years of investigations , they concluded that MI and Mlm cannot derive energy from substrates which cultivable mycobacteria use as energy sources for grow...