background: although extensive development of technology provides welfare and accessibility for families but it may be one of the threatening factors for them. the unique characteristics of internet such as availability and facility are useful, but over using for its exciting content cause to internet addiction between family members. the aim of this study was to explain the experiences of the ...

Although an increasing amount of research is being done on the dynamical processes on interdependent spatial networks, knowledge of how interdependent spatial networks influence the dynamics of social contagion in them is sparse. Here we present a novel non-Markovian social contagion model on interdependent spatial networks composed of two identical two-dimensional lattices. We compare the dyna...

Single sensor with Bayer pattern color filters are used to reduce size and cost of consumer digital cameras. These cameras use various demosaicing algorithms to construct the entire image with true colors from the acquired insufficient RGB (Red,Green and Blue) mosaics. In order to estimate original true colors, iterative demosaicing algorithms are being employed. These algorithms incur high cos...

We derive quantitative results regarding sets of n-bit strings that have different dependency or independency properties. Let C(x) be the Kolmogorov complexity of the string x. A string y has α dependency with a string x if C(y) − C(y | x) ≥ α. A set of strings {x1, . . . , xt} is pairwise α-independent if for all i 6= j, C(xi) − C(xi | xj) ≤ α. A tuple of strings (x1, . . . , xt) is mutually α...

Estimating the strength of dependency between two variables is fundamental for exploratory analysis and many other applications in data mining. For example: non-linear dependencies between two continuous variables can be explored with the Maximal Information Coefficient (MIC); and categorical variables that are dependent to the target class are selected using Gini gain in random forests. Noneth...

Most of the population of Nigeria is rural and agriculture is the mainstay of the impoverished people’s livelihood. This paper estimated the determinants of rural poverty in Nigeria using the Tobit regression model. Through the multistage sampling technique, primary data were obtained from 150 rural farming households using a questionnaire. The Result of Tobit regression analysis shows that inc...

Soil loss erosion is one of the most serious environmental problems (widespread globally), which is a menace to sustainable ecosystems and agriculture. As the previous studies show, the world’s highest soil loss rates due to erosion are in three continents, i.e. Asia, Africa, and South America. A new method was proposed to statistically evaluate the most appropriate cell size for LS factor inpu...