Oroo’, a very peculiar jungle sign language of the semi-nomadic Penan in Malaysia, Borneo Island, is at the virtue of extinction with recent changes in lifestyle. The youth inhabiting the rainforest are more drawn to technology than traditional forest activities needing cognizance of Oroo’. In partnership with community members of Long Lamai, as part of a long term collaboration, we launched in...

pL’s science and Technology (s&T) Vision calls on the Laboratory to be “an excellent practitioner” in modeling and simulation (m&s), while looking to others to lead in this area. in fact, ApL has made significant m&s contributions to sponsor programs throughout its existence. because of the rapid advances in computing and networking technologies over the past two decades, being an excellent pra...

Fear is a well-characterized biological response to threatening or stressful situations in humans and other social animals. Importantly, fearful stimuli in the natural environment are likely to be encountered concurrently by a group of animals. The modulation of fear acquisition and fear memory by a group as opposed to an individual experience, however, remains largely unknown. Here, we demonst...

Data fusion in today’s context has a huge impact in terms of the cognizance and decision paradigms. The data fusion paradigms are either model based or architecture based. The popular data fusion architectures are Thomopoulos Architecture, Distributed Blackboard Data Fusion Architecture, System-based Data Fusion Architecture, Hierarchical Data Fusion Architecture, Distributed Data Fusion Archit...

Evolving threat situations in a post 9/11 world demand faster and more reliable decisions to thwart the adversary. One critical path to enhanced threat cognizance is through online knowledge discovery based on dynamic, heterogeneous data available from strategically placed wide-area sensor networks. The knowledge discovery process needs to coordinate adaptive predictive analysis with real-time ...

Mosquito-borne infections and viral outbreaks have bewildered physicians and population at large from time to time, there seems to be a constant cat and mouse race between the medical fraternity and these mosquito menaces. Zika virus and its vector Aedes aegyti are currently bothering the world population, this infection has affected pregnant women causing microcephaly in their new-borns and al...

The job scheduling technology is an effective way to achieve resource sharing and to improve computational efficiency. Scheduling problem has been proved to be NP-complete problems, Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) algorithm has demonstrated outstanding performance in solving such issues. In cognizance of the characteristics of cluster scheduling problem, a schedule strategy based on PSO was d...

Purpose Ayurveda advocates a holistic, individualized approach for disease diagnostics/treatment. Taking cognizance of physiological variabilities, Ayurveda devised a subjective method of pulse examination for health index assessment. As per Ayurveda, biological humors ‘TriDosha’ are fundamental psychosomatic principles responsible for health/ diseases (Vata: Body Movements; Pitta: Heat, Metabo...

Whilst existing civil society studies generally fail to systematically examine the way that contextual factors shape women’s representation in the civil sphere, political science has predominantly focused on legislative settings. This article responds to the resultant knowledge-gap by examining the hitherto underexplored role of civil society as a political space integral to the substantive rep...

Abstract There is a long history of philosophers granting privileged epistemic status to cognition directly present objects. In this paper, I examine three important historic accounts which provide different models cognitive state and its connection with objects: that the Stoics, who are corporealists think ordinary perception may have an epistemically status, but seem struggle accommodate non-...