Experience in Manufacturing Greeseless-Cocks

Seasonal Variations in Seminal Characteristics of Shikabrown Breeder Cocks

The seasonal influence on the seminal characteristics of Shikabrown breeder cocks was evaluated weekly during the three seasons in Northern Guinea Savannah zone of Nigeria. Semen samples were analyzed by gross and routine laboratory methods for volume, motility, concentration, colour, percent dead and percent total abnormality. The highest volume and concentration values of 0.50±0.03ml and 3.60...

Advanced manufacturing technology adoption—the German experience

The decision process that organisations utilise when evaluating technology investment opportunities is a complex and even political process; however, the correct decision can provide the organisation with considerable operational and competitive benefits. The research presented in this paper presents the findings of a postal survey of the benefits provided by technology investments to large Ger...

Simple Homomorphisms of Cocks IBE and Applications

The Cocks Identity Based Encryption (IBE) scheme, proposed in 2001 by Clifford Cocks, has been the standard for Quadratic Residue-based IBE. It had been long believed that this IBE did not have enough structure to have homomorphic properties. In 2013, Clear, Hughes, and Tewari (Africacrypt 2013) created a Cocks scheme derivative where they viewed ciphertexts as polynomials modulo a quadratic. W...

Experience with IMDAS in the Automated Manufacturing Research Facility

The Automated Manufacturing Research Facility (AMRF) is a unique engineering laboratory at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST†) Center for Manufacturing Engineering. The facility provides a basic array of discrete metal parts manufacturing equipment and control systems – a testbed – that researchers from NIST, industrial firms, universities and other government agencies ca...

Anatomical studies of corpus paracloacalis vascularis in cocks.