ter digestibility, apparent digestible energy and apparent metabo-lizable energy are similar to the published values of Adeola and Bajjalieh (1997) and NRC (1998). Total nitrogen intake was similar (P > 0.10) between the corn varieties (Table 3). The amount of nitrogen digested (0.03 and 0.03 lb/d) and retained (0.01 and 0.01 lb/d) were similar (P > 0.10) between the corn rootworm protected and...

Inherent resource limitation nature of wireless sensor networks poses unique security challenges. Cryptography is not enough and efficient to secure wireless sensor networks; it can not prevent malicious nodes and tunneling of messages to wormholes and sinkholes. In this paper we propose a monitoring mechanism to detect malicious nodes; the proposed mechanism is protected with a secure triple k...

Minimum distance controlled tabular adjustment (CTA) is a recent perturbative technique of statistical disclosure control for tabular data. Given a table to be protected, CTA looks for the closest safe table, using some particular distance. We focus on the continuous formulation of CTA, without binary variables, which results in a convex optimization problem for distances L1, L2 and L∞. We also...

A lot of research papers discussed Distributed Hash Table (DHT) based p2p systems to promise that idle resources may be efficiently harvested. However, p2p systems are composed of components with extremely heterogeneous availabilities and they will generate heavy information maintenance traffic to keep the efficiency of DHT based p2p systems under churn. In this paper, we suggest a dynamic node...

Statistical agencies such as the US Census Bureau routinely release aggregate statistics about the general population. These statistics are often reported in the form of contingency tables. A 2-dimensional contingency table is an (m + 1) × (n + 1) matrix over two attributes that are binned into m rows and n columns. For instance, the attributes could be Age binned into buckets of length 10 and ...

nowadays, the machinery dependent life makes the people take refuge in natural recreational places. therefore, evaluating the recreational value of natural promenades has great importance to lead to more protection. in this research, economic valuation of sorkheh hesar national park, and protected area of geno were computed, and socio-economic factors compared in each area. geno protected area ...