In the basic Sudoku game, players must fill the entries of a n×n matrix, except some given entries, under the conditions that each row, each column, and each m×m sub-matrix contains integers 1 through n exactly once. In ...

Antioxidants play a significant role in neutralizing oxidative stress, which could cause impairments to the spermatozoa. Various studies have pointed to various conclusions about the effect of antioxidants on seminal ...

Hidden hunger is the chronic deficiency of essential vitamins and minerals, collectively known as micronutrients. Globally two billion people are in hidden hunger. The prevalence of hidden hunger is high in developing ...

The primary objective of this study is to develop a method to monitor the changes in forest cover using three different techniques, namely Spatial Data Mining (SDM), supervised and unsupervised classification, and Geographical ...

In this paper, we proposed a biased estimator, a new stochastic restricted two-parameter estimator (NSRTPE), for the multiple linear regression model to tackle the multicollinearity problem when the stochastic restrictions ...

Unemployment is still high in Sri Lanka and is considered a severe challenge. Higher unemployment rates are consistently found regardless of the degree of economic activity, in which improvements in the GDP marginalize ...

Freshwater scarcity is one of the emerging threats to human survival. There is a gap between availability and demand for freshwater due to urbanization, industrialization, overpopulation, contamination of groundwater, and ...