We study the problem of building effective heuristics for achieving conjunctive goals from heuristics for individual goals. We consider a straightforward method for building conjunctive heuristics that smoothly trades off between previous common methods. In addition to first explicitly formulating the problem of designing conjunctive heuristics, our major contribution is the discovery that this...

This study allowed the establishment of reference values of some biochemical parameters in 77 male racehorses (41 local breed horses and 36 Spanish barbs). The values obtained from these sport horses, bred in the environmental and feeding conditions in Senegal, were within the range of the values of biochemical parameters reported in various previous research works. However, the values of AST a...

The vibration serviceability of flooring structures has been of concern for decades. To date, design criteria classifying the dynamic behaviour of different types of timber flooring structures to an acceptable degree have not been well established. Parameters commonly used to investigate and assess vibrational performances of timber floors include natural frequencies, damping ratios, dynamic di...

In this paper, we focus on extending the expressive power of constraint-based temporal reasoning formalisms. We begin with the well-known Simple Temporal Problem with Uncertainty, and incorporate three extensions: prior observability, in which the values of uncontrollable events become known prior to their actual occurrence; partial shrinkage, in which an observation event triggers the reductio...

The HI content of Hickson Compact Groups in the southern hemisphere is measured using data from the HI Parkes All-Sky Survey (HIPASS), and dedicated observations using the narrow band filter on the Multibeam instrument on the Parkes telescope. The expected HI mass of these groups was estimated using the luminosity, diameter and morphological types of the member galaxies, calibrated from publish...

A comprehensive assessment of central auditory processing disorders includes parent questionnaires. The Scale of Audi tory Behaviors (SAB) was developed to evaluate the limitations and difficulties perceived by guardians of children in everyday activities.The aim of the study was to provide normative data for the SAB for Argentinian healthy children. The parents and guardians of eighty-four chi...

We study properties of the zero and near-zero eigenmodes of the overlap Dirac operator in compact U (1) gauge theory. In the confinement phase the exact zero-modes are localized as found by studying the values of the inverse participation ratio and other features. Non-zero-eigenmodes are less localized in the confinement phase. In the Coulomb phase no zero-modes are observed and the eigenmodes ...

The aim of bioequivalence studies is the evaluation of bioequivalence of pharmaceutical products. The products are usually two and basic pharmacokinetic parameters such as AUC, C max and t max are used. These studies aim at investigating the “closeness” of the distributions of the pharmacokinetic parameters (responses) for the two products, which is made mainly by comparing the average values o...

We study properties of the zero and near-zero eigenmodes of the overlap Dirac operator in compact U (1) gauge theory. In the confinement phase the exact zero-modes are localized as found by studying the values of the inverse participation ratio and other features. Non-zero-eigenmodes are less localized in the confinement phase. In the Coulomb phase no zero-modes are observed and the eigenmodes ...

We model the impact of atmospheric turbulence-induced phase and amplitude fluctuations on free-space optical links using synchronous detection. We derive exact expressions for the probability density function of the signal-to-noise ratio in the presence of turbulence. We consider the effects of log-normal amplitude fluctuations and Gaussian phase fluctuations, in addition to local oscillator sh...