Ship hull form module is the main module in ship design. The problem of creating fair ship hull surface is of major importance in Computer Aided Ship Design environment. The fitness of these surfaces is generally considered a subjective notion depending on the judgment of the designers (eg. visually pleasing, devoid of unnecessary bumps or wiggles, satisfying certain continuity requirements). O...

There are different methods to reduce drag in high speed hulls. One of these methods is a change in the shape of the body by adding longitudinal side tunnels. In this paper it has been attempted to determine the influence of the tunnel height on hydrodynamic characteristics of the hull to achieving an optimum shape for the tunnel. To achieve this purpose, numerical simulation of the problem has...

Introduced in [1] by Jason Cantarella, Greg Kuperberg, Robert B. Kusner, and John M. Sullivan, the hull number is a complexity measure for links similar to the bridge number. By definition, it is the maximum integer n such that for any realization of the link there is a point c ∈ R such that any plane through c intersects the curves representing the link at least 2n times. Clearly, the hull num...

A coarse outer hull of a mesh is a good tool used in computer graphics to reduce algorithm complexity, especially, in applications such as collision detection or ray-tracing. It is often required that the hull has some very specific parameters concerning its shape and quality since these influence general flexibility and numerical stability of the algorithms. This paper overviews existing probl...

The range of an AUV is dictated by its finite energy source and minimising the energy consumption is required to maximise its endurance. One option to extend the endurance is by obtaining the optimum hydrodynamic hull shape with balancing the trade-off between computational cost and fluid dynamic fidelity. An AUV hull form has been optimised to obtain low resistance hull. Hydrodynamic optimisat...

this experiment was conducted in safi abad agricultural research center of dezful in order to study the effect of seed deterioration and plant density on germination, seedling establishment, yield and yield components of hull-less barley with in 2011- 2012. treatments included three levels of seed deterioration: (control, 72 and 96 hours) and five plant densities (100, 150, 200, 250 and 300 pla...

The convex hull describes the extent or shape of a set of data and is used ubiquitously in computational geometry. Common algorithms to construct the convex hull on a finite set of n points (x,y) range from O(nlogn) time to O(n) time. However, it is often the case that a heuristic procedure is applied to reduce the original set of n points to a set of s < n points which contains the hull and so...

The two independent domestication events in the genus Oryza that led to African and Asian rice offer an extremely useful system for studying the genetic basis of parallel evolution. This system is also characterized by parallel de-domestication events, with two genetically distinct weedy rice biotypes in the US derived from the Asian domesticate. One important trait that has been altered by ric...

Michele E.R. Pierotti, Mairi E. Knight, Simone Immler, Nicola J. Barson, George F. Turner, and Ole Seehausen MolecularEcologyandEvolutionGroup,DepartmentofBiological Sciences,University ofHull, Cottingham Road, Hull HU6 7RX, UK, Aquatic Ecology and Macroevolution, Institute of Zoology, University of Bern, Baltzerstrasse 6, CH-3012 Bern, Switzerland, EAWAG Center for Ecology, Evolution and Bioge...