This article examines the geographical corridors for the establishment of rice in seventeenth-century Dutch Guiana. One corridor of introduction is associated with the expulsion of Dutch planters from Brazil in 1644, whose slaves reestablished longstanding subsistence preferences with their exodus to the colony. Another corridor links its introduction to the African Gold Coast, where rice devel...

An (N ;n,m, {w1, . . . , wt})-separating hash family is a set H of N functions h : X −→ Y with |X| = n, |Y | = m, t ≥ 2 having the following property. For any pairwise disjoint subsets C1, . . . , Ct ⊆ X with |Ci| = wi, i = 1, . . . , t, there exists at least one function h ∈ H such that h(C1), h(C2), . . . , h(Ct) are pairwise disjoint. Separating hash families generalize many known combinator...

The process quality capability indicators Cp and Cpk are widely used to measure capability. Traditional metric estimation methods require data be explicit normally distributed. Often, the actual obtained from production regarding measurements of features incomplete do not have a normal distribution. This means that use traditional estimating may lead erroneous results. Moreover, in case qualita...

With an increase in the global pollution, there is requirement for an alternative to the fossil fuels. Non-edible vegetable oils are highly promising for producing liquid fuels like diesel. Jatropha is a potential feedstock for biodiesel, currently utilized in India and many parts of the world. The optimization of reaction conditions such as temperature, time, catalyst and molar ratio for biodi...

With an increase in the global pollution, there is requirement for an alternative to the fossil fuels. Non-edible vegetable oils are highly promising for producing liquid fuels like diesel. Jatropha is a potential feedstock for biodiesel, currently utilized in India and many parts of the world. The optimization of reaction conditions such as temperature, time, catalyst and molar ratio for biodi...