The aim of this study was to determine the effect a combination NPK fertilizer and liquid organic (POC) pruning its interaction on growth yield melon plants dry land. experiment used two-factor factorial randomized block design, namely: Application + Liquid Organic Fertilizer (b0 = 100% without POC; b1 50% Bio-Extrem b2 Organox POC) ; Pruning (p0 No Pruning, p1 by maintaining 2 main branches). ...

A new class of algorithms based on the triangle inequality has recently been proposed for use in contentbased image retrieval. These algorithms rely on comparing a set of key images to the database images, and storing the computed distances. Query images are later compared to the keys, and the triangle inequality is used to speedily compute lower bounds on the distance from the query to each of...

Pretropisms are candidates for the leading exponents of Puiseux series that represent positive dimensional solution sets of polynomial systems. We propose a new algorithm to both horizontally and vertically prune the tree of edges of a tuple of Newton polytopes. We provide experimental results with our preliminary implementation in Sage that demonstrates that our algorithm compares favorably to...

In saliency based pruning algorithms a pruning decision is made based on an ordering of the parameters. We will in this article focus on the fact that this ordering is invariant under certain transformations, and with that knowledge an equivalence class of algorithms is developed all yielding identical prunings. A sub-class is demonstrated to have a simple but sensible interpretation in terms o...

In this article we review standard null-move pruning and introduce our extended version of it, which we call verified null-move pruning. In verified null-move pruning, whenever the shallow null-move search indicates a fail-high, instead of cutting off the search from the current node, the search is continued with reduced depth. Our experiments with verified null-move pruning show that on averag...

Keywords: Ensemble pruning Backtracking algorithm Ensemble Pruning via BackTracking algorithm (EnPBT) One-Path and Two-Trips searching algorithm (OPTT) Pruning efficiency a b s t r a c t Ensemble pruning is substantial for the successful application of an ensemble system. A novel method for Ensemble Pruning via BackTracking algorithm (EnPBT) was proposed by us in our previous work. Back-trackin...

In a wired network, a packet can be transmitted to a specified destination only, no broadcasting required. But in ad hoc wireless network a packet transmitted by a node can reach all neighbors due to broadcasting. This broadcasting introduces unnecessary retransmissions of same message. Therefore, the total number of transmissions (forward nodes) is generally used as the cost criterion for broa...

In 2006, the 2 Global Trajectory Optimization Competition (GTOC2) posed a “Grand Asteroid Tour” trajectory optimization problem, where participants were required to find the best possible low-thrust trajectory that would rendezvous with one asteroid from each of four defined groups. As a first step, most teams employed some form of design space pruning, in order to reduce the overall number of ...