COVID-19 conveyed threats to the development of social life and economy. Social distancing has changed way living, with a profound impact on food agriculture. With this concern, study was conducted assess agricultural production distribution in South Asia. Bangladesh, India, Pakistan were selected as countries since larger higher virus invasion numbers posed vulnerability than others. It is nec...

Many countries have adopted policies that support expanded production and use of liquid biofuels for transportation. These policies are intended to enhance domestic energy security, spur economic development and reduce emissions of greenhouse gases (GHG) and other pollutants. Biofuel policies, along with changing energy market fundamentals, have contributed to a significant increase in global b...

Cellulosic bioenergy feedstocks are needed to improve carbon (C) management while provisioning biomass for bioproducts and biofuel. The transition increased cellulosic production can be guided by land plans designed economic, environmental, ecological performance. We constructed a sustainability model compare landscape designs biofuel from corn (Zea mays L.) stover switchgrass (Panicum virgatum...

Co-Operative Air Traffic Management (COATM) is a concept under exploration at NASA Ames Research Center for transformation of aircraft and air traffic management operations towards the Next Generation Air Transportation System (NGATS). A goal of the CO-ATM concept is to provide a scalable framework to significantly increase NAS capacity and efficiency while maintaining safety. A second goal of ...

We study the following problem: party A’s secret input is a, party B ’s secret input is b, and party C ’s input is empty; they want to know if a = b with restriction that A and B should not learn anything more than what is implied by their secret inputs and the comparison result, and C should not learn anything about a or b except if a = b. This problem can be seen as a variant of the socialist...

Group-ware is about group-work. It is about developing technologies that support the way people communicate and collaborate to accomplish work goals in the context of personal,managerial and organizational imperatives. In contrast to single user applications which support peoples’ tasks, groupware supports peoples’ work. Tasks are often explicit, observable and concrete. Work is often tacit...

This paper discusses a methodology to manage wireless sensor networks (WSN) with self-organising feature maps, using co-operative Extended Kohonen Maps (EKMs). EKMs have been successfully demonstrated in other machine-learning contexts such as learning sensori-motor control and feedback tasks. Through a quantitative analysis of the algorithmic process, an indirect-mapping EKM can self-organise ...

Simple systems are considered in which the binding of a ligand at a single site exhibits a doubly sigmoid curve when saturation is plotted against the logarithm of ligand concentration, i.e. where a fraction of the site exhibits one dissociation constant and the rest exhibits another. The condition for this to occur is that the ligand should also combine at another site on the binding molecule ...

Autonomous planning agents that share a common goal should be able to propose, justify and share information about plans. To reach an agreement on the best plan, strategies for persuasion and negotiation can be used by agents in order to share their beliefs about the world and resolve conflicts between the agents. We present an argumentation scheme and associated critical questions to create an...