The individual roles of auxin and ethylene in controlling the growth and development of young seedlings have been well studied. In recent years, these two hormones have been shown to act synergistically to control specific growth and developmental processes, such as root elongation and root hair formation, as well as antagonistically in other processes, such as lateral root formation and hypoco...

The Auckland aggregate market is estimated to be 7.2 million tonnes a year. Sixteen major quarries supply this market. Because of the number of suppliers and the variety of products, planning in this complex environment is difficult. Winstone Aggregates is the largest producer of rock products in Auckland. It owns nine quarries and supplies slightly more then half of the region's aggregate need...

Local polynomial smoothers recently received much attention in the literature, owing to their optimality properties (Fan, 1993). However, Seifert and Gasser (1996a; 1996b) showed that in finite samples these smoothers may suffer problems arising from data sparseness. To overcome this problem they suggest a modification based on ridge regression ideas. In this paper we shall describe another app...

Federated learning (FL) is rapidly gaining popularity and enables multiple data owners (a.k.a. FL participants) to collaboratively train machine models in a privacy-preserving way. A key unaddressed scenario that these participants are competitive market, where market shares represent their competitiveness. Although they interested enhance the performance of respective through FL, leader...