It is often argued that learning from best examples in the neighbouring Burkina Faso and elsewhere, Ghana can succeed in revamping the collapsing cotton industry by introducing Bt cotton to farmers. This paper therefore presents a survey findings on farmers’ views and perceptions towards the possible introduction of Bt cotton. A stratified random sampling techniques was applied in selecting 254...

When rules are executed in a parallel production system, the goal of control is to ensure both that a highquality solution is achieved and that processing resources are used e ectively. We argue that the conventional con ict resolution algorithm is not suitable as a control mechanism for parallel rulering systems. The necessity for examining all eligible rules within a system imposes a synchron...

An explicit manipulation of business rules in information systems development (ISD) is an old domain. There were many attempts in the last two decades to define how the rules should be dealt with throughout the ISD activities. Despite many results that have been achieved, several questions regarding business rule manipulation within ISD remain unresolved and present challenges for future resear...

The design of rule bases is plagued by various anomalies due to lack of structured development, and lack of a formal reference for the acquired knowledge. Often, the lack of a clear link connecting the functional requirements, the design, and the implementation levels of a rule-based system makes it difficult to analyze the rule base in terms of how well it represents the acquired knowledge. Th...

Adaptationism has prompted many a debate in philosophy of biology but the focus is usually on empirical and explanatory issues rather than methodological adaptationism (MA). Likewise, the context of evolutionary biology has provided the grounding for most discussions of the heuristic role of adaptationism. This paper extends the debate by drawing on case studies from physiology and systems biol...

Theoretical Issues in Ergonomics Science Publication details, including instructions for authors and subscription information: http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~content=t713697886 Effects of physical workload on cognitive task performance and situation awareness Carlene M. Perry a; Mohamed A. Sheik-Nainar a; Noa Segall a; Ruiqi Ma a; David B. Kaber a aCarlene M.PerryMohamed A.Sheik-NainarN...

This paper explores security issues of storage in the cloud and the methodologies that can be used to improve the security level. This study is concluded with a discussion of current problems and the future direction of cloud computing. Big data analysis can also be classified into memory level analysis, business intelligence (BI) level analysis, and massive level analysis. This research paper ...

---------------------------------------------------------------------ABSTRACT------------------------------------------------------------Cloud Computing is an emerging paradigm in the advanced network arena that facilitates the users to access shared computing resources through internet-on-demand. Cloud Computing has been widely used since it brings tremendous improvements in business. Cloud us...

The traditional view has been that Cognitive Linguistics (CL) is incompatible with formalization. Cognitive linguistics is serious about embodiment and grounding, including imagery and image-schemas, force-dynamics, real-time processing, discourse considerations, mental spaces, context, and so on. It remains true that some properties of embodied language, such as context sensitivity, can not be...

A new high rate binary linear block code construction technique, named as Geometric Construction (GC) codes, was proposed recently [1]. It generates all the even full information rate (optimal) Hamming distance – 4 codes. In this paper, we have enhanced the construction of GC codes with respect to code rate and derived a code family of hamming distance-8 GC codes.