We present a greedy version of an existing metaheuristic algorithm for a special version of the Cutting Stock Problem (CSP). For this version, it is only possible to have indirect control over the patterns via a vector of continuous values which we refer to as a weights vector. Our algorithm iteratively generates new weights vectors by making local changes over the best weights vector computed ...

At a time when multiculturalism as an approach to managing diversity in society has been declared failed policy many western countries, Australia still seems committed the evidenced public discourse and government declarations. The concept of interculturalism— promoted more appropriate dealing with other parts world such Europe Canada—seemingly no place Australian context. However, changes unde...

Social psychologist Milgram (1963, 1974) and sociologist Elias ([1939] 2000) are undisputed social science heavyweights whose scholarly contributions delve into the shared topic of violence. Despite this similarity, near nothing has been written on any insights one might offer other. With aim bucking trend, exploratory article illustrates how certain connections between both magna operas mutual...

We report an unusual cause of acute total airway obstruction after aspiration of a dislodged tube that was separated from its metallic connector. A 5-year-old boy had an emergence agitation and bucking to the endotracheal tube with a vigorous bite before extubation of the trachea. The whole uncuffed endotracheal tube was aspirated deep into the lower trachea causing laryngotracheal obstruction....

AIM This study quantified the effects of season and photoperiodic treatment on semen and seminal plasma (SP) characteristics in 12 bucks of two Spanish goat breeds (Murciano-Granadina, and Payoya) for the past 1 year. MATERIALS AND METHODS A total of 6 bucks (three of each breed) were exposed to the natural day length and the other six males (three of each breed) were exposed to alternating c...

We explore how to improve machine translation systems by adding more translation data in situations where we already have substantial resources. The main challenge is how to buck the trend of diminishing returns that is commonly encountered. We present an active learning-style data solicitation algorithm to meet this challenge. We test it, gathering annotations via Amazon Mechanical Turk, and f...