EditorialOpen accessIn the abstractAn Opportunity for the Agricultural Sector: The Renewable Energy SourcesRiccardo Testa, Salvatore TudiscaToday, among the most important issue for energy decisions by policymakers, there are security challenges and environmental impacts on climate change and economic aspects. Since the seventies, in fact, global warming and environmental issues have had an increasing importance in international debate, attracting the attention of several scientific studies (Landi and Benelli, 2016). Many of these studies denoted that over … …American Journal of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Vol. 11, Issue 3 · 6 Sep 2016 · 8,092 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractThe Influence of Local Wisdom on the Actualisation of Educative, Scientific and Religious Behaviour on anAcademic Environment in a UniversityEdi Suryadi, KusnendiThis paper examines the influence of local wisdom on academic environment in an Institution of higher education. The Sundanese values have been used as a case in point to examine how culture, scientific and religious values can influence educationwithin an academic society. In Sundanese culture, we find patterned intellectual and moral creativity which contains a system ofmoral values and norms … …American Journal of Applied Sciences, Vol. 13, Issue 4 · 2 May 2016 · 7,508 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractOrganizational Well-Being in a Public Research Agency: The Point of View of Administrative Staff and ResearchersElisa Colì, Antonella RissottoThe aim of this paper is to investigate organizational well-being in a Public Research Agency, exploring the point of view of two different categories of workers, administrative staff and researchers, employed in the same organization. We hypothesized that, in a complex organization, the kind of work performed, along with other factors, could influence the representation of organizational well-being. The study … …Journal of Social Sciences, Vol. 11, Issue 4 · 22 Oct 2015 · 7,174 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractCarving Secret Messages out of Public InformationNaya Nagy, Marius Nagy, Selim G. AklThis study shows that secret information can be shared or passed from a sender to a receiver even if not encoded in a secret message. In the protocol designed in this study, no parts of the original secret information ever travel via communication channels between the source and the destination, no encoding/decoding key is ever used. The two communicating partners, … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 11, Issue 1 · 25 Feb 2015 · 8,037 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractWORKSHOP ON THE SOURCES, QUANTIFICATION AND HEALTH IMPLICATIONS OF BIOAEROSOLS WORKSHOP REPORTKaren Exley, Sarah Robertson, Francis D. Pope et al.Scientists, health care professionals and the general public have all raised concerns about the potential health impact natural and manmade sources bioaerosols. In response in september 2012 the Natural Environmental Research Council and public health England jointly funded a workshop to review the 'sources, quantification and health implications of bioaerosols'. The organising committee for the workshop identified five priority areas-(1) … …American Journal of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Vol. 9, Issue 3 · 28 Oct 2014 · 6,639 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractH-RABIN CRYPTOSYSTEMHayder Raheem HashimCryptography is the science of using mathematics that's used to hide information or data that is being sent between participants in a way that prevents other people from reading it. The need of exchanging messages secretly promoted the creation of cryptosystems to enable receivers to interpret the exchanged information. In this study, a particular public key cryptosystem called Rabin Cryptosystem … …Journal of Mathematics and Statistics, Vol. 10, Issue 3 · 10 May 2014 · 7,640 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractENVIRONMENTAL CRITIQUE ON WATER SECTORAL ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT OF BANGLADESHShahriar RahmanThe water resources sector of Bangladesh relies on the Environmental Impact Assessments (EIAs) to assess the possible positive and negative impacts on the environmental and social components of the project affected areas. The motivation of this research was to identify the key environmental components, gaps and lapses of current EIA practices in water resources sector of Bangladesh. Under the motivation, … …American Journal of Environmental Sciences, Vol. 10, Issue 3 · 19 Apr 2014 · 7,467 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractA VARIANT OF POLLARD'S RHO ATTACK ON ELLIPTIC CURVE CRYPTOSYSTEMSSiham Ezzouak, Mohammed Elamrani, Abdelmalek AziziElliptic Curve cryptosystems appear to be more secure and efficient when requiring small key size to implement than other public key cryptosystems. Its security is based upon the difficulty of solving Elliptic Curve Discrete Logarithm Problem (ECDLP). This study proposes a variant of generic algorithm Pollard's Rho for finding ECDLP using cycle detection with stack and a mixture of cycle … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 10, Issue 8 · 9 Apr 2014 · 7,269 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractPREDICTION OF FIGHT OR FLIGHT RESPONSE USING ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKSAbhijit Suresh, Sai Swarna Latha, Pooja Nair, N. RadhikaThe modern society has posed several threats to the public. Public security is declining with increasing anti-social behaviour. Cases of rape and terrorist attacks have become increasingly common and there is a strong demand for a security system to control such modalities. Anti-social behaviour is a key issue of public concern. Public perceptions, however, have been improving recently. The vital … …American Journal of Applied Sciences, Vol. 11, Issue 6 · 3 Apr 2014 · 8,041 accessesView PDFCite