Setting up effective conservation strategies requires the precise determination of the targeted species' distribution area and, if possible, its local abundance. However, detection issues make these objectives complex for most vertebrates. The detection probability is usually <1 and is highly dependent on species phenology and other environmental variables. The aim of this study was to define a...

A checkpoint algorithm for mobile computing systems needs to handle many new issues like: mobility, low bandwidth of wireless channels, lack of stable storage on mobile nodes, disconnections, limited battery power and high failure rate of mobile nodes. These issues make traditional checkpointing techniques unsuitable for such environments. Minimum-process coordinated checkpointing is an attract...

Over the last few decades, progress in fields such as the physical limits of computing and quantum computing has increasingly taught us that it can be helpful to think about physics itself in computational terms. For example, recent work has shown that the energy of a quantum system limits the rate at which it can perform significant computational operations, and suggests that we might validly ...

Various methods are presented to control the attitude of satellite due to lack of information of yaw axis attitude so far.&#10In this paper, a new method is used which is more general and is applicable to all types of satellites, with at least one controller. &#10This method is not limited to YAW axis and can control the two other axes as well. One feature of this approach is the ability to be ...

This study develops a fuzzy sliding mode controller (FSMC) based on a variable boundary layer. A fuzzy inference mechanism is used to on-line tune the thickness of the boundary layers of the controller. Minimum rule base has been used for the fuzzy inference system which results in low calculation effort. The aim of this paper is to design a controller which will eliminate the chattering of FSM...

An effort carried out to find out the smaller size of cuttings for propagation ofMorus alba in Experimental area, Department of Forestry, Range Management and Wildlife, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, 2005. Different size of cuttings i.e.5 cm, 10 cm, 15 cm and 20 cm were planted in polythene tubes of 9 cm x 18 cm. The attempt was also made to compare the performance of cuttings outdoor a...