RETRO repairs a desktop or server after an adversary compromises it, by undoing the adversary’s changes while preserving legitimate user actions, with minimal user involvement. During normal operation, RETRO records an action history graph, which is a detailed dependency graph describing the system’s execution. RETRO uses refinement to describe graph objects and actions at multiple levels of ab...

Correlation coefficient and path analysis studies was conducted with eight parents and their 28 F1 crosses for twelve component characters including seed yield and revealed significant positive association of pods per plant, harvest index and clusters per plant with seed yield in parental generation whereas in F1 generation, significant positive association of clusters per plant, pods per plant...

Rising life expectancy and declining birth rates are ageing the population of most developed countries all over the world. As a result, in a few years there will be a large portion of senior citizens in our society, therefore, it is more important than ever to figure out ways to improve their well-being and quality of life. Unfortunately, older adults require health care services more than othe...

Parametric polymorphism constrains the behavior of pure functional programs in a way that allows the derivation of interesting theorems about them solely from their types, i.e., virtually for free. Unfortunately, standard parametricity results — including so-called free theorems — fail for nonstrict languages supporting a polymorphic strict evaluation primitive such as Haskell’s seq . A folk th...

A quantile summary is a data structure that approximates to ε-relative error the order statistics of a much larger underlying dataset. In this paper we develop a randomized online quantile summary for the cash register data input model and comparison data domain model that uses O( 1 ε log 1 ε ) words of memory. This improves upon the previous best upper bound of O( 1 ε log 1 ε ) by Agarwal et. ...

PDF PS. [2] Device Transparency: a new model for mobile storage. Jacob Strauss, Chris Lesniewski-Laas, Justin Mazzola Paluska, Bryan Ford, Robert Morris, and M. Frans Kaashoek. In Proceedings of the SOSP Workshop on Hot Topics in Storage and File Systems (HotStorage), Big Sky, Montana, October 2009.

Field experiments were conducted during the 2010 and 2011 cropping seasons to investigate the effect of farmyard manure and weeding regimes on the growth and yield of okra. The study was a factorial experiment laid out in split plot design, replicated three times. Farm yard manure was assigned as main plot treatments, while weeding regimes was assigned as sub plot treatments. Parameters measure...

Vegetable soybeans (Glycine max), the same species as fi eld-dried soybeans, have similar production requirements and good market potential for commercial producers in upper midwestern United States. Five vegetable soybean cultivars were tested for yield and quality characteristics and to assess the necessity of fi eld irrigation during 2003 and 2004 in North Dakota. Cultivars of different matu...

The bacterial spot disease of cowpeas was first noted in southern Indiana in 1919, out its bacterial nature was not determined until 1921, when it occurred in an experimental plot of cowpeas at La Fayette, Ind. It is a typical spot disease of the leaves, stems, and pods, distinctly different from the other bacterial diseases of cowpeas reported in the literature. The organism which causes this ...

In this paper we provide theoretical support for the so-called “Sigmoidal Gaussian Cox Process” approach to learning the intensity of an inhomogeneous Poisson process on a ddimensional domain. This method was proposed by Adams, Murray and MacKay (ICML, 2009), who developed a tractable computational approach and showed in simulation and real data experiments that it can work quite satisfactorily...