Adoption of decision support services (DSS) based on crop growth models has been poor and yet the concept of transferring an increasing body of scientific knowledge via DSSs remains attractive. This study explores the use of the Internet and participatory action research (PAR) to develop an irrigation management service called WaterSense for sugarcane irrigators in Australia. WaterSense combine...

This paper considers distributed storage systems (DSSs) from a graph theoretic perspective. A DSS is constructed by means of the path decomposition of a 3regular graph into P4 paths. The paths represent the disks of the DSS and the edges of the graph act as the blocks of storage. We deduce the properties of the DSS from a related graph and show their optimality.

BACKGROUND As in any measurement process, a certain amount of error may be expected in routine population surveillance operations such as those in demographic surveillance sites (DSSs). Vital events are likely to be missed and errors made no matter what method of data capture is used or what quality control procedures are in place. The extent to which random errors in large, longitudinal datase...

BACKGROUND Prolonged static sitting in a wheelchair is associated with an increased risk of lower back pain. The wheelchair seating system is a key factor of this risk because it affects spinal loading in the sitting position. In this study, 7 dynamic sitting strategies (DSSs) are examined: lumbar prominent dynamic sitting (LPDS), back reclined dynamic sitting (BRDS), femur upward dynamic sitti...

The design of new sequence for high Processing Gain (PG) in DSSS systems with band limited noise channel and no aliasing, is shown. The PN-EB sequences present the same number of " zeroes " and " ones " , and zero mean. The number available is very large. All perform very good secondary peak level of autocorrelation.

Direct sequence spread spectrum (DSSS) techniques for low probability of intercept (LPI) and multi-user communications applications for underwater acoustic communications are investigated. Two promising receivers, a RAKE based receiver and a hypothesis-feedback equalization based architecture are considered. The performance of the proposed receiver structures are compared based on simulations a...

There is an increasing presence of wireless LAN devices in the ISM band. Co-located operation of these devices causes mutual interference and performance degradation. This paper presents experimental results of interference measurements between sample Bluetooth and IEEE 802.11b DSSS devices.

The paper presents the results of implementation in the Matlab environment for watermarking embedder and extractor based on the Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum (DSSS). A block diagram of watermarking system, an analysis of watermarked signal reproduced as well as watermarking system robustness to degrading factors: lossy compression, signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) as well as a change in sampling f...