in order to comparison and determination of the best drought tolerance indices in sweet corn hybrids, an experiment was conducted using a randomized complete block design in split plot lay out with three replications at seed and plant improvement institute in karaj in 2006. three irrigation levels (irrigation after 75 as control, 100 and 125 millimeters cumulative evaporation from class a evapo...

at this study, after designing and manufacturing a rotary tool, its machining parameters and their effects on surface roughness of aluminum alloy of al99 which  is one of the most consumable alloys in aerospace industry, is  studied and optimized. first, the rotary tool is designed and manufactred. then according to taguchi method, the experiments have been designed to record surface roughness,...

in this study, the preparation of transparent glass-ceramics with lithium-mica nanocrystals by melting-quenching method was investigated. the effect of heat treatment time and temperature on the crystalline phases, microstructure and transparency of the samples were studied. in order to obtain a fine microstructure, an optimum condition for heat treatment has been found to be very important in ...

The finite element approximation of optimal control problems for semilinear elliptic partial differential equation is considered, where the control belongs to a finite-dimensional set and state constraints are given in finitely many points of the domain. Under the standard linear independency condition on the active gradients and a strong second-order sufficient optimality condition, optimal er...

Economists traditionally tackle normative problems by computing optimal policy, i.e., the one that maximizes a social welfare function. In practice, however, a succession of marginal changes to a limited number of policy instruments are implemented, until no further improvement is feasible. I call such an outcome a “restricted local optimum”. I consider the outcome of such a tatonment process f...

Fuzzy C-means (FCM) is a popular algorithm using the partitioning approach to solve problems in data clustering. A drawback to FCM, however, is that it requires the number of clusters and the clustering partition matrix to be set a priori. Typically, the former is set by the user and the latter is initialized randomly. This approach may cause the algorithm get stuck in a local optimum because F...

Evolution sculpts both the body plans and nervous systems of agents together over time. In contrast, in AI and robotics, a robot’s body plan is usually designed by hand, and control policies are then optimized for that fixed design. The task of simultaneously co-optimizing the morphology and controller of an embodied robot has remained a challenge. In psychology, the theory of embodied cognitio...