The impact of three levels of sea salt (0.0, 8.0, and 16.0 mS/cm2) on six varieties of soybean (Crawford, G21, G22, G35, G82, and G83) was studied. Growth criteria, photosynthetic pigments, soluble sugars, soluble protein, free amino acids, free proline, and protein profile of soybean varieties were investigated under sea salt stress. Results of this study showed a considerable decrease in grow...

Relative sea-level changes during the last w2500 years in New Jersey, USA were reconstructed to test if late Holocene sea level was stable or included persistent and distinctive phases of variability. Foraminifera and bulk-sediment d13C values were combined to reconstruct paleomarsh elevation with decimeter precision from sequences of salt-marsh sediment at two sites using a multi-proxy approac...

The performance of spoken language systems on utterances from the ATI$ domain is evaluated by comparing systemproduced responses with hand-crafted (and -verified) standard responses to the same utterances. The objective of SRI's annotation project is to provide SLS system developers with the range of correct responses to human utterances produced during experimental sessions with ATIS domain in...

Dynamic service level negotiation is necessary to flexibly allocate resources according to QoS demands of a host or a domain. We have designed COPS-SLS as a service level negotiation protocol for IP-based networks. In this paper, we analyse a COPS-SLS-based negotiation system from the protocol design and system’s scalability perspectives. This analysis is useful not only to the improvement of t...

The paper discusses an economically efficient and internationally equitable provision of a specific public good. The good in question, the Baltic Sea, satisfies a number of needs, but economic values implied may be different in various countries polluting and using the Sea. The level of eutrophication has been identified as a key characteristic of the Baltic Sea relevant for its value. The Chan...

Based on the search forest for positive programs as deened by Bol and Degerstedt, we deene a tabulated version of SLS-resolution that is sound and complete w.r.t. well founded semantics. In contrast to SLS-resolution as proposed by Przymusinski and by Ross, a positivistic computation rule is not required. This proposal is closely related to that of Chen and Warren, but it relies on tabulation f...

We observed that Conjunctive Normal Form (CNF) encodings of structured SAT instances often have a set of consecutive clauses defined over a small number of Boolean variables. To exploit the pattern, we propose a transformation of CNF to an alternative representation, Conjunctive Minterm Canonical Form (CMCF). The transformation is a two-step process: CNF clauses are first partitioned into disjo...

This paper engineers a new state-of-the-art Stochastic Local Search (SLS) for the Low Autocorrelation Binary Sequence (LABS) problem. The new SLS solver is obtained with white-box visualization to get insights on how an SLS can be effective for LABS; implementation improvements; and black-box parameter tuning.