The wild blueberry industry is currently facing increased harvesting losses due to changes in crop conditions caused by improved management practices. The objectives of this study were to sense the variations in fruit ...

Software-Defined Networking (SDN) enables network reconfiguration in response to dynamic application requirements. Recently researchers have tried extending SDN in the Internet of Things (IoT) networks, which required ...

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The research presented in this thesis concentrates on robust project scheduling for resource and time-constrained naval maintenance projects. In the naval maintenance environment, and many other real world cases, project ...

The Government of Nova Scotia invests in the province’s professional theatre sector through the provision of public support. The administrative processes which implement this public support organise how theatre professionals ...

The random Fibonacci sequence is defined by t_1 = t_2 = 1 and t_n = ± t_{n–1} + t_{n–2} , for n ? 3, where each ± sign is chosen at random with P(+) = P(–) = 1/2. We can think of all possible such sequences as forming ...

There has been experimental evidence pointing to at least two pitch mechanisms, the first involving low-order harmonics that are resolved along the basilar membrane, and the second a periodicity mechanism that depends only ...

Background: Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma is a deadly disease with variable treatment practices and quality of care between healthcare systems. Processes of care may be used to describe the quality of care provided ...