VIRGINIA AGRICULTURE: LOOKING BACKWARD AND FORWARD. Sandra J. Adams, Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services. Agriculture, the number one private industry in Virginia, contributes $52 billion annually to Virginia’s economy and supports 415,000 jobs. Though Native Americans grew crops and instructed the Jamestown settlers in New World agricultural practices, farming in Virginia ...

In this paper, a customer incentive scheme is proposed for retailers to build an effective demand response program over the peak demand period to minimize the financial risk. Firstly, an objective function is formulated based on the market operation and an optimal incentive price is derived from this objective function. Secondly, the incentive price is employed as a part of an incentive scheme ...

Things that connect to other devices & systems via Internet or communication networks are called IoT. It can also be said as a network of wireless sensors connected cloud and controlled by embedded devices. Considering the large framework IoT, it becomes little difficult maintain security at each sensor node especially with limited information regarding hardware deployment capabilities. The...

in this paper, a new numerical method for solving time-fractional diffusion equations is introduced. for this purpose, finite difference scheme for discretization in time and chebyshev collocation method is applied. also, to simplify application of the method, the matrix form of the suggested method is obtained. illustrative examples show that the proposed method is very efficient and accurate.

In this paper we propose and studied a new composite iterative scheme with certain control con-ditions for viscosity approximation for a zero of accretive operator and xed points problems in areflexive Banach space with weakly continuous duality mapping. Strong convergence of the sequencefxng dened by the new introduced iterative sequence is proved. The main results improve andcomplement the co...

The present study introduces a new technique of homotopy perturbation method for the solution of systems of fractional partial differential equations. The proposed scheme is based on Laplace transform and new homotopy perturbation methods. The fractional derivatives are considered in Caputo sense. To illustrate the ability and reliability of the method some examples are provided. The results ob...

Every day in the United States, over halfa million social workers provide services to people with health, mental health, and substance abuse problems in a fragmented system that emphasizes disease treatment over prevention. Powerful issues--including health inequities, population aging, globalization, natural disaster, war, and economic downturn--make the need for preventive approaches more cri...

Recently, Reich and Zaslavski have studied a new inexact iterative scheme for fixed points of contractive and nonexpansive multifunctions. In 2011, Aleomraninejad, et. al. generalized some of their results to Suzuki-type multifunctions.  The study of iterative schemes for various classes of contractive and nonexpansive mappings is a central topic in fixed point theory. The importance of Banach ...