A decision maker (DM) wishes to select a competent candidate to …ll a position. However, since the wage and task of the position is predetermined, the DM cannot use contract as a screening device. This paper formulates the problem as a class of selection problem and derives the optimal selection procedure. The key element of our selection procedure is voluntary testing. That is, unlike statisti...

Almost all existing node selection algorithms of the underwater sensor networks (USNs) are designed by assuming ideal environments. However, position floating nodes which caused ocean currents cannot be ignored in practice. Aiming at solving this problem during target tracking, a algorithm based on multi-objective optimization under was proposed paper. First, error is converted into noise. Then...

The promise of medical innovation has long evoked social commentary, particularly when personal reproductiveautonomy may be impacted. Development of the oral contraceptive, effective and safe surgical sterilization, and later IVF and ICSI are among the revolutionary developments where initial reaction was dubious, but eventually, each was accorded mainstream status as clinical experience accumu...

Principal aim of a search engine is to provide the sorted results according to user’s requirements. To achieve this aim, it employs ranking methods to rank the web documents based on their significance and relevance to user query. The novelty of this paper is to provide user feedback-based ranking algorithm using reinforcement learning. The proposed algorithm is called RRLUFF, in which the rank...

The evolutionary importance of postnatal ontogenies has long been recognized, but most studies of ontogenetic trajectories have focused exclusively on morphological traits. For animals, this represents a major omission because behavioral traits and their ontogenies often have relatively direct relationships to fitness. Here four replicate lines of house mice artificially selected for high early...

Complex vertebral malformation(CVM) isanautosomal recessivehereditarydisorder caused bya point mutation in position 559 inexon 4 of the SLC35A3 gene on chromosome 3 inHolstein dairy cattle.This mutationchanges the function of uridine 5-diphosphate-N-acetylglucosamine transporter protein bythe substitution of valine for phenylalanine at position 180 of this protein. The disease causes premature ...