The mass flow of granular particles in an aerial spreader duct was regarded as a sequence of cluster passage events. At low flow densities, the total mass per time unit could be estimated by measuring the diameter (length) of each individual particle passing a sensor and accumulating the associated masses. At higher flow densities, the lengths of clusters would be measured rather than the lengt...

Variable string length genetic algorithm (GA) is used for developing a novel nonparametric clustering technique when the number of clusters is not fixed a priori. Chromosomes in the same population may now have different lengths since they encode different number of clusters. The crossover operator is redefined to tackle the concept of variable string length. Cluster validity index is used as a...

In 1966 Erdős and Hajnal proved that the chromatic number of graphs whose odd cycles have lengths at most l is at most l + 1. Similarly, in 1992 Gyárfás proved that the chromatic number of graphs which have at most k odd cycle lengths is at most 2k + 2 which was originally conjectured by Bollobás and Erdős. Here we consider the influence of the parities of the cycle lengths modulo some odd prim...

Most existing applications of centroidal Voronoi tessellations (CVTs) lack consideration of the length of the cluster boundaries. In this paper we propose a new model and algorithms to produce segmentations which would minimize the total energy — a sum of the classic CVT energy and the weighted length of cluster boundaries. To distinguish it with the classic CVTs, we call it an Edge-Weighted CV...

salvia is a valuable medicinal and aromatic genus belongs to the lamiaceae family. in this study, morphological traits and essential oil content were used for the estimate of variability and to determine the relationship among different species of salvia including s. syriaca (5 ecotypes), s. virgate (8 ecotypes), s. reuterana (6 ecotypes) and s. multicaulis (6 ecotypes) collected from the south...

background and objectives: evaluation of the grain yield and yield components and also morphological traits can help to identify strategies for selection of resistant cultivars and increased crop yield production under heat stress condition. to this end, in experiment to evaluate of grain yield and yield components on 42 rice lines tolerant to heat stress from international rice research instit...