This write-up presents the design and analysis of several algorithms for determining the maximum sum of certain subsets of one-dimensional arrays. In the first section, we consider the Maximum Subsequence Sum (MSS) problem: given an array A with signed integer elements, find a contiguous subarray with the maximum possible sum. In Section 2, we extend our algorithm to handle the case of cyclic s...

The recent establishment of cloud computing and its increasing importance for consumers have attracted new ways of service creation and provisioning over the internet. Research has dealt with the establishment of new cloud computing markets and new opportunities for collaboration in these emerging markets. We found that the necessary decisions are very much similar to decisions that have to be ...

Expansion of cattail, Typha domingensis , is perhaps the most conspicuous indicator of long-term degradation of the Florida Everglades. The spread of cattail in the Everglades has been tracked at a landscape scale through photointerpretation of aerial and satellite photography (Rutchey and Vilchek 1994, Jensen et al. 1995, Rutchey and Vilchek 1999 and Rutchey et al. 2008) and has provided an im...

The mesospheric and lower thermospheric (MLT) winds (60–100 km) obtained by multiple MF radars, located from the arctic to equator at Tromsø (70 N, 19 E), Saskatoon (52 N, 107 W), London (43 N, 81 W), Hawaii (21 N, 157 W) and Christmas Island (2 N, 157 W), respectively, are used to study the planetary-scale 16-day waves. Based on the simultaneous observations (1993/1994), the variabilities of t...

BACKGROUND There is evidence suggesting that first-born children and adults are anthropometrically different to later-borns. Thus, we aimed to assess whether birth order was associated with changes in growth and metabolism in childhood. METHODS We studied 312 healthy prepubertal children: 157 first-borns and 155 later-borns. Children were aged 3-10 years, born 37-41 weeks gestation, and of bi...

Household Production, Full Consumption and the Costs of Children Recent work criticises both the logic and relevance of the theoretical basis of the approach to estimating the costs of raising children adopted in much of the economics literature. This tends to be restricted purely to models in which the household members consume market goods with given household income. The “costs of children” ...

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BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Few and conflicting data exist on the case fatality rate in stroke patients with basilar artery dolichoectasia. We analyzed basilar artery characteristics (diameter, height of bifurcation, transverse position) and 5-year mortality (all-cause, nonstroke vascular, and stroke) in patients with brain infarction. METHODS The basilar artery diameter was measured with a 16-dio...