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Medicinal plants are viewed as a possible bridge between sustainable development, affordable health care, and conservation of vital biodiversity. This paper outlines the importance and usage of such plants in national health care and conservation activities in selected countries--China,...

Genetic algorithms have recently gained notoriety as search engines of remarkable power, successfully search-ing, in reasonably short times, spaces completely intractable to most traditio-nal methods. The application of the genetic algorithm to the difficult problem of fuzzy system optimization...