Fusarium head blight (FHB) is an important disease of wheat and causes significant economic and yield losses. The principal pathogen associated with FHB in Manitoba is Gibberella zeae (Schwein.) Petch (anamorph = Fusarium graminearum Schwabe). Trichoderma harzianum Rifai is a well-known biocontrol agent of many plant pathogens. The extracts from 11 T. harzianum isolates and cellfree filtrates w...

We analyze the schema theorem and the building block hypothesis using a recently derived, exact schemata evolution equation. We derive a new schema theorem based on the concept of effective fitness showing that schemata of higher than average effective fitness receive an exponentially increasing number of trials over time. The building block hypothesis is a natural consequence in that the equat...

Maximum likelihood factor analysis provides an effective method for estimation of factor matrices and a useful test statistic in the likelihood ratio for rejection of overly simple factor models. A reliability coefficient is proposed to indicate quality of representation of interrelations among attributes in a battery by a maximum likelihood factor analysis. Usually, for a large sample of indiv...

This paper addresses the problem of unsupervised decomposition of a multi author text document: identifying the sentences that were written by each author assuming the number of authors is unknown. An approach, BayesAD, is developed for solving this problem: apply a Bayesian segmentation algorithm, followed by a segment clustering algorithm. Results are presented from an empirical comparison be...

The novelty and innovativeness of this paper are the combination of reproducing kernel theory and spline, this leads to a new simple but effective numerical method for solving variable-order anomalous sub-diffusion equation successfully. This combination overcomes the weaknesses of piecewise polynomials that can not be used to solve differential equations directly because of lack of the smoothn...

Computable analysis and effective descriptive set theory are both concerned with complete metric spaces, functions between them and subsets thereof in an effective setting. The precise relationship of the various definitions used in the two disciplines has so far been neglected, a situation this paper is meant to remedy. As the role of the Cauchy completion is relevant for both effective approa...

Aim of the paper is to investigate applications of Laplace Adomian Decomposition Method (LADM) on nonlinear physical problems. Some coupled system of non-linear partial differential equations (NLPDEs) are considered and solved numerically using LADM. The results obtained by LADM are compared with those obtained by standard and modified Adomian Decomposition Methods. The behavior of the numerica...

Multiscale dynamics are frequently present in real-world processes, such as the atmosphere-ocean and climate science. Because of time scale separation between a small set of slowly evolving variables and much larger set of rapidly changing variables, direct numerical simulations of such systems are difficult to carry out due to many dynamical variables and the need for an extremely small time d...

A simple and effective method based on Haar wavelets is proposed for the solution of Pocklington's integral equation. The properties of Haar wavelets are first given. These wavelets are utilized to reduce the solution of Pocklington's integral equation to the solution of algebraic equations. In order to save memory and computation time, we apply a threshold procedure to obtain sparse algebraic ...

In this paper we consider two closely related problems : estimation of eigenvalues and eigenfunctions of the covariance kernel of functional data based on (possibly) irregular measurements, and the problem of estimating the eigenvalues and eigenvectors of the covariance matrix for high-dimensional Gaussian vectors. In Peng and Paul (2007), a restricted maximum likelihood (REML) approach has bee...