We study the power of a tournament organizer in manipulating the outcome of a balanced single-elimination tournament by fixing the initial seeding. This problem is known as agenda control for balanced voting trees. It is not known whether there is a polynomial time algorithm that computes a seeding for which a given player can win the tournament, even if the match outcomes for all pairwise play...

Software module clustering is the process of partitioning the structure of the software system using low-level dependencies in the source code in order to understand and improve the system’s structure. A software clustering tool, Munch, was used to modularise sequential source code software check-ins to assess the degree of major changes. It uses a searchbased software engineering technique. Th...

In the 1990s numerous winter orographic cloud seeding experiments were conducted over Utah’s Wasatch Plateau. Several previously published case studies successfully documented the physical response in clouds and precipitation to ground-based seeding with silver iodide and liquid propane. A previously unpublished case study that shows additional evidence of positive seeding effects is presented ...

in order to study the effect of sowing methods and seeding rates on fodder yield and some agronomic characters of nikshahri alfalfa ecotype, an experiment was conducted in a split plot arrangement in randomized complete block design with four replications in the field of agricultural and natural resources center of baluchistan in iranshahr region. in this study, sowing methods: hand spread, 12 ...

introduction: meningioma is a benign and slowly-growing tumor that is responsible for 20% of brain neoplasms. it can be accompanied by some genetic disorders such as neurofibromatosis type 2 and is more common among women. as a space occupying lesion, it produces a wide range of signs and symptoms by compressing the adjacent and underlying tissues in the brain. trauma and viruses are possible e...

In order to further improve the seeding performance of maize seed-metering device, a pressure-holding precision device for was designed. The is made up several seed rowing modules, which effectively solves problems inconvenient disassembly and complex maintenance current device. working principle introduced, mechanical kinematic analysis seeds during operation carried out. orthogonal test out w...

In Genetic Algorithm (GA), the fitness or quality of individual solutions in the initial population plays a significant part in determining the final optimal solution. The traditional GA with random population seeding technique is simple and proficient however the generated population may contain poor fitness individuals, which take long time to converge to the optimal solution. On the other ha...