Classical clustering problems search for a partition of objects into a fixed number of clusters. In many scenarios however the number of clusters is not known or necessarily fixed. Further, clusters are sometimes only ...

One of the most intriguing questions in both stylistic and rhetorical analyses relates to determining textual effect on readers, aesthetic or otherwise. Whether the power of the text is directly associated with the role ...

The Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problem (CVRP) is a combinatorial optimization problem where a eet of delivery vehicles must service known customer demands from a common depot at a minimum transit cost without exceeding ...

Assessing software quality is fundamental in the software developing field. Most software quality characteristics cannot be measured before a certain period of use of the software product. However, they can be predicted ...

Nasturtium officinalis is a widely used edible plant in the Mediterranean region and well known for its medicinal value in folk medicine. The present study explores the effects of the water extract of N. officinalis upon ...

Phytotherapy has been widely used throughout the years for the treatment of a variety of diseases such as colon and colorectal cancers. Recent studies in our laboratories have shown that Daucus carota (Linnaeus) ssp. carota ...

The liver plays a major role in detoxifying and clearing xenobiotics that may lead to liver damage and hepatic dysfunction. The present study was carried out to evaluate the hepatoprotective activities of the chloroform-based ...

Daucus carota L. ssp. carota (wild carrot) was recently shown to exhibit in vitro and in vivo anticancer activities [1, 2]. DCOE was chromatographed to yield F1 (pentane; 100%), F2 (pentane-diethyl ether; 50:50), F3 (diethyl ...