Increased agricultural productivity is a key driver of wider agriculture-led economic growth and resilience in many regions heavily burdened by food insecurity, malnutrition, and poverty, and it’s essential to achieving Feed the Future’s objectives, which are guided by the U.S. Government’s Global Food Security Strategy (GFSS). Greater agricultural productivity can increase food availability an...

water resources are of vital human resources and of the three main elements of ecosystem. almost half of the agricultural products of the world are being produced in irrigation schemes. in today's world, the population is considerably increasing and consequently severe shortage of food threatens about two-third of the world's population. moreover, water resources are facing more serious crisis ...

Conclusion: It is possible to produce a very simple dual feed horn by cutting off a part of one side of a corrugated horn and fitting two of them together. A common ridge between both horns and, at least, one complete slot in each horn part is necessary to decouple them suficiently. The horn can be used for orthogonal polarisations with good cross-polar performance over a frequency band of abou...

We describe an experimentation environment that enables large-scale numerical simulations of neural microphysiology to be fed back onto living neurons in-vitro via dynamic wholecell patch clamping – in effect making living neurons and simulated neurons part of the same neural circuit. Owing to high computational demands, the experimental testbed will be dispersed over a local area network compr...

A 60-70% increase in consumption of animal products is expected by 2050. This increase in the consumption will demand enormous resources, the feed being the most challenging because of the limited availability of natural resources, ongoing climatic changes and food-feed-fuel competition. The costs of conventional feed resources such as soymeal and fishmeal are very high and moreover their avail...

High concentrations of pathogens and indicator organisms found in urban receiving waters are a common cause of concern. Though some question the actual public health risk associated with exposure to these organisms, large amounts of resources are spent attempting to identify and correct their source. This paper contains a summary of recent work describing the potential human health effects asso...

Water resources managers can benefit from accurate prediction of the availability of groundwater. In this project I present two models to predict groundwater levels in an unconfined shallow aquifer in the Searsville basin, part of the Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve. The input data (ie, features) for the models includes local weather, lake stage, and stream flow data, and moving averages of th...