demographic parameters of the pink stem borer, sesamia creticalederer (lepidoptera: noctuidae) were estimatedon its two main host plants, maize and sugarcane. the present studywas conducted under laboratory conditions at 27±1˚c, 50±10% relative humidity (rh %), and a photoperiod of 0:24 (l:d) hour for the larval stage and 16:8 (l:d) hour for the other life stages. the raw data were analyzed bas...

Customer Journey Maps (CJMs) summarize the behavior of customers by displaying the most common sequences of steps they take when engaging with a company or product. In many practical applications, the challenge lies in automatically discovering these prototypical sequences from raw event logs for thousands of customers. We propose a novel, probabilistic approach based on a mixture of Markov mod...

Building on a previous important work of Cachin, Crépeau, and Marcil [15], we present a provably secure and more efficient protocol for ( 2 1 ) -Oblivious Transfer with a storage-bounded receiver. A public random string of n bits long is employed, and the protocol is secure against any receiver who can store γn bits, γ < 1. Our work improves the work of CCM [15] in two ways. First, the CCM prot...

Primljeno (Received): 2011-10-10 Prihvaćeno (Accepted): 2012-03-04 Original scientific paper At the Kielce University of Technology a novel method for in situ cylindricity measurement has been developed. It has been called a Vblock method and its fundamental is using a set of two connected Vblocks. Along the element connecting V-blocks the measuring sensor moves. The method is characterized by ...

A parallel algorithm for detecting dominant points on a digital closed curve is presented. The procedure requires no input parameter and remains reliable even when features of multiple sizes are present on the digital curve. The procedure first determines the region of support for each point based on its local properties, then computes measures of relative significance (e.g., curvature) of each...

This paper characterizes the attractor structure of synchronous and asynchronous Boolean networks induced by bithreshold functions. Bi-threshold functions are generalizations of standard threshold functions and have separate threshold values for the transitions 0 → 1 (up-threshold) and 1 → 0 (down-threshold). We show that synchronous bi-threshold systems may, just like standard threshold system...

The decision making problems in an imprecise environment has found paramount importance in recent years. Here we consider an object recognition problem in an imprecise environment. The recognition strategy is based on multiobserver input parameter data set. 2010 AMS Classification: 06D72

Since the introduction of pairings over (hyper)elliptic curves in constructive cryptographic applications, an ever increasing number of protocols based on pairings have appeared in the literature. Software implementations being rather slow, the study of hardware architectures became an active research area. Beuchat et al. proposed for instance a coprocessor which computes the characteristic thr...

Software Testing refers to the set of activities carried out on the software with the intent of finding errors. It is one to ascertain that the software meets all its specifications. For any software a very large number of scenarios and input value combinations exist and testing the software for each of these combinations is not possible. And, also the time and resources for testing are limited...

The health impacts caused by chemical fertilizer utilization have challenged long-term sustainable development in many countries, particularly developing countries. Based on the emergy analysis method, we estimated the temporal and spatial variations of the health costs, through atmospheric, water, and soil pathways, of chemical fertilizer utilization in China during the period from 1990 to 201...