Nowadays, there are many phylogeny reconstruction methods, each with advantages and disadvantages. We explored the advantages of each method, putting together the common parts of trees constructed by several methods, by means of a consensus computation. A number of phylogenetic consensus methods are already known. Unfortunately, there is also a taboo concerning consensus methods, because most b...

This paper presents HAS-QAP, an hybrid ant colony system coupled with a local search, applied to the quadratic assignment problem. HAS-QAP uses pheromone trail information to perform modifications on QAP solutions, differently from more traditional ant systems that use pheromone trail information to construct complete solutions. HAS-QAP is analysed and compared with some of the best heuristics ...

Design optimization of a class of plane trusses called the N-Shaped Truss (NST) is addressed. The parametric model of NST presented is intended for real-world application, avoiding simplifications of the design details that compromise the applicability. The model, which includes twenty-seven discrete variables concerning topology, configuration and sizing of the truss, presents a challenging op...

English. The present research deals with the automatic annotation and classification of vulgar ad offensive speech on social media. In this paper we will test the effectiveness of the computational treatment of the taboo contents shared on the web, the output is a corpus of 31,749 Facebook comments which has been automatically annotated through a lexicon-based method for the automatic identific...

Historically, cognitivists considered moral choices to be determined by analytic processes. Recent theories, however, have emphasized the role of intuitive processes in determining moral choices. We propose that the engagement of analytic and intuitive processes is contingent on the type of tradeoff being considered. Specifically, when a tradeoff necessarily violates a moral principle no matter...

Joking is universal behaviour. Jokes provide playful ways of addressing taboo subjects that relate to the basic drives of people for sexuality, affiliation, novelty and dominance. Telling jokes is a way to achieve status, which is more a male preoccupation than a female one. But aside from the gender difference, people do not make the same kinds of jokes across the world. There are differences ...

This study elucidates the nursing of undernourished patients as experienced by eight registered clinical nurses and five nursing assistants by using content analysis. The participants' narratives describe the inner perspective of caring for undernourished patients, known in Sweden as 'the thin ones'. Categories identified were: frustration in nursing, joy in nursing and that undernourishment is...

The present study used functional magnetic resonance imaging to investigate brain processes associated with the inhibition of socially undesirable speech. It is tested whether the inhibition of undesirable speech is solely related to brain areas associated with classical stop signal tasks or rather also involves brain areas involved in endogenous self-control. During the experiment, subjects ha...

Drawing attention to the associations evoked in the process of food denomination, the paper attempts to reveal the traces of cannibalistic instinct in this realm. By singling out some of the principal ways used in the semantic reticulum to name food, special attention is devoted to those names that allude to particular categories of enemies (devoured as wholes or as parts of the body). What is ...

The Job Shop Scheduling Problem is a strongly NP-hard problem of combinatorial optimisation and one of the best-known machine scheduling problem. Taboo Search is an effective local search algorithm for the job shop scheduling problem, but the quality of the best solution found depends on the initial solution. To overcome this problem we present a new approach that uses a population of Taboo Sea...