In this paper, Genetic Algorithm(GA)is applied to Course Scheduling, designed to arrange and optimize the Timetable in Adult Education. Designed an automatic curriculum scheduling system based on this multi-dimension coding scheme. Finally, real course data is used to test this multi-dimension coding scheme and the result is satisfying in the way of the time complexity and curriculum scheduling...

Colloidal particles absorbed at the interface of a liquid droplet arrange into unique packings during slow evaporation [V.N. Manoharan et al., Science 301, 483 (2003)]. We present a numerical and theoretical analysis of the packing selection problem. The selection of a unique packing arises almost entirely from geometrical constraints during the drying.

OBJECTIVE To investigate family physicians' and pediatricians' practice of and perceived barriers to smoking cessation counseling among patients 18 years and younger. DESIGN Cross-sectional mail survey conducted between November 1, 1997, and January 31, 1998. PARTICIPANTS A stratified random sample selected from the 1997 American Medical Association Physician Masterfile of 1000 family physi...

Background: Icosahedral clustering is characteristic of the many common “face-centered-cubic metals” on the nanoscale, either in liquid [1] and/or in solid form. As the surface-to-volume ratio of a growing solid icosahedral-cluster decreases, however, bulk-atoms typically re-arrange themselves into their space-filling fcc form, turning the cluster in to a coordinated-set of paired-crystal icosa...

This paper discusses the symbolic objects forming a graphical interface for a "hybrid" human-computer scheduling system. Visual features of these objects represent the job attributes that a human scheduler may use in deciding how to allocate jobs to machines and to arrange the order of processing.

Users often arrange items on a table-top with total disregard for the natural axis of the table itself. One often finds it more comfortable to tilt personal writing or working space to a comfortable viewing angle. We present examples of rendering issues faced by interfaces which allow rotation, and explore potential flaws in their implementation.

The hardening which accompanies the plastic deformation of metals and all other crystalline materials is proposed to arise because the dislocations arrange themselves into gradually densifying networks, i.e. shorten in length, and therefore resist critical bowing-out, and hence further deformation, with increasing stress. [The SCI indicates that this paper was cited 103 times in the period 1961...

Oregon’s efforts in tobacco cessation have historically focused on the general population and have depended on quit line services as the primary intervention. The Oregon Smoke Free Mothers and Babies Program (SFMB) was developed in 2002 to focus on public health nurses and prenatal care providers who work with high risk pregnant women. It seeks to increase smoking cessation among low income and...

The development of methodological materials for the implementation a combined strategy when identifying critical requirements assembly precision instruments and tools, is viewed. proposed approaches make effective quantization product into structural elements possible, arrange formalizing design dimensional analysis in an automated mode.