Chilades pandava (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) larval food quality was studied to determine its influence on adult life history traits. A wild population from Cycas nongnoochiae (Cycadales: Cycadaceae) endemic habitat behaved similarly to the population collected from a garden setting. Cycas micronesica, Cycas revoluta, and Cycas seemannii leaves were used as high-quality food, whereas C nongnoochi...

one of the most remarkable basis of the gravity data inversion is the recognition of sharp boundaries between an ore body and its host rocks during the interpretation step. therefore, in this work, it is attempted to develop an inversion approach to determine a 3d density distribution that produces a given gravity anomaly. the subsurface model consists of a 3d rectangular prisms of known sizes ...

Abstract—Resource –constrained project scheduling problem (RCPSP) is a well known NP hard problem. This paper proposes a hybrid approach of constraint programming (CP) and integer programming (IP) which could solve RCPSP with ideal efficiency and quality. Constraint propagation is key element of constraint programming and is widely used in cumulative resource problem (CRP). CRP can be taken as ...

A novel fidelity constraint to the image enhancement problem is presented. With this constraint, we exploit the motion vectors of a compressed video bit-stream. These vectors establish a correspondence between image pixels across a series of frames, and we guarantee that processing the decoded sequence does not violate this correspondence. We develop the constraint within the context of MPEG-2 ...

This paper proposes a power allocation scheme with co-channel allocation for a femto base station (BS) that maximizes the sum-rate of its own femto mobile stations (MSs) with a constraint that limits the degradation of quality of service (QoS) of macro MSs. We have found a closed-form solution for the upper limit on the transmission power of each sub-channel that satisfies the constraint in a p...

This paper aims at determining the optimal number of new facilities besides specifying both the optimal location and design level of them under the budget constraint in a competitive environment by a novel hybrid continuous and discrete firefly algorithm. A real-world application of locating new chain stores in the city of Tehran, Iran, is used and the results are analyzed. In addition, several...