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Description, Articulation and Limitations in the Social Theory of Insurance
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT There have been surprisingly few sustained efforts to explain or theorise the role insurance plays in society. Even the most theoretically inflected insurance scholarship, emanating from governmentality and Actor Network Theory scholarship, tends to be grounded in empirical cases, set in particular periods and places, and it is often ...
Liz McFall
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The Dynamic Simulation Platform for Chemical Gas Diffusion based on Cloud Computing
Chemical Engineering Transactions, 2017 The toxic chemical gas leakage is a common safety accident in petrochemical enterprises. Once the leakage occurs in the process of storage and transportation, it will cause heavy losses and serious consequences.
Qian Jia
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Ant colony optimization approach for the capacitated vehicle routing problem with simultaneous delivery and pick-up [PDF]
, 2006 We propose an Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) algorithm to the NPhard Vehicle Routing Problem with Simultaneous Delivery and Pick-up (VRPSDP). In VRPSDP, commodities are delivered to customers from a single depot utilizing a fleet of identical vehicles and
Catay, Bulent, Çatay, Bülent
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Insect Science, EarlyView.Strict patterns of co‐divergence have rarely been documented other than among organisms and their symbionts. In this paper, using a molecular approach, we inferr the population‐level phylogenies of a Mediterranean ant species Pheidole pallidula and its nest parasite, the obligate myrmecophilous beetle Paussus favieri. We then investigate the role of co‐
Davide Bergamaschi +2 more
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International Journal of Computational Intelligence SystemsThe Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP) is a classic problem in combinatorial optimization, aiming to find the shortest path that traverses all cities and eventually returns to the starting point.
Yangyang Tian +5 more
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Integrative Zoology, EarlyView.Aphelonyx cerricola and the different stages that make this gall colonizable by ants. ABSTRACT Wasps of the family Cynipidae are known to induce galls of a species‐specific morphology, which during senescence provide a refuge for secondary insect fauna, especially ants.
Daniele Giannetti +5 more
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Parallel ACO with a Ring Neighborhood for Dynamic TSP
, 2012 The current paper introduces a new parallel computing technique based on ant colony optimization for a dynamic routing problem. In the dynamic traveling salesman problem the distances between cities as travel times are no longer fixed.
A.Sameh +9 more
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Integrative Zoology, EarlyView.We performed 16S rDNA sequencing and metabolite profiling for three sympatric lizard species—Teratoscincus roborowskii, Phrynocephalus axillaris, and Eremias roborowskii—and compared their goblet cell and enzyme activities in the digestive tract. Our study suggests that the dietary niche may promote divergence or convergence of microbiota across host ...
Yi Yang, Ziyi Wang, Ruichen Wu
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An Approximate Algorithm Combining P Systems and Ant Colony Optimization for Traveling Salesman Problems [PDF]
, 2010 This paper proposes an approximate optimization algorithm combining P systems with ant colony optimization, called ACOPS, to solve traveling salesman prob- lems, which are well-known and extensively studied NP-complete combinatorial optimization ...
Cheng, Jixiang +2 more
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Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Objectives The Oral Health Impact Profile (OHIP) is the most widely used instrument to measure the subjective impact of oral conditions. This study reports the shortening and psychometric evaluation of an ultra‐short version (OHIP‐7A) from the OHIP‐14 in a large national Australian population.
Brandan Khor +6 more
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