The competitive ranking of three marine sessile organisms was determined from overgrowth observations and found to be intrasitive. Overgrowth results were dependent upon relative vertical relief which, in turn, was related to colony area. Discriminant function analysis demonstrates that competitive rankings can be largely predicted on the basis of knowledge of the size-frequency distribution of...

Abstract Incomplete skyline query is an important operation to filter out pareto-optimal tuples on incomplete data. It harder than due intransitivity and cyclic dominance. analyzed that the existing algorithms cannot process massive data efficiently. This paper proposes a novel table-scan-based TSI algorithm deal with high efficiency. solves issues of dominance by two separate stages. In stage ...

A relation is transitive if and only if from the fact that A has a relation to B, and B has a relation C, it necessarily follows that A also has a relation to C. As a relation fulfilling this requirement, consider simultaneity understood as two events occurring at the same time and only at the same time (thus this is not a case of mere partial temporal overlap): If A and B share all the same te...

The main purpose of this paper is to provide experimental evidence that two syntactic reflexes of split intransitivity in German the selection of perfective auxiliaries and the impersonal passive construction are sensitive to an aspectual/thematic hierarchy of verb classes. We show that there is a split between ‘core’ verbs that elicit categorical intuitions from native speakers, and ‘intermedi...

The task of understanding the dynamics of coevolutionary algorithms or comparing performance between such algorithms is complicated by the fact the internal fitness measures are subjective. Though several techniques have been proposed to use external or objective measures to help in analysis, there are clearly properties of fitness payoff, like intransitivity, for which these techniques are ine...

This paper extends the recent literature on the influence of peers on adolescent weight on three new fronts. First, based on a survey of secondary school students in Spain in which peers are formed by nominated classmate friends, we find a more powerful positive and significant causal effect of friends' mean BMI on adolescent BMI than previous US-based research. These results are in line with i...