Due to constant decrease in farmlands, it is important to identify the best lands for sustainable agriculture (productive and profitable agriculture that protects the environment and that is socially equitable). This requirement has resulted in the development of land suitability maps for agriculture by combining a range of factors. Spatial analysis approaches, based on the concepts of the weig...

Climate change will cause geographic range shifts for pollinators and major crops, with global implications for food security and rural livelihoods. However, little is known about the potential for coupled impacts of climate change on pollinators and crops. Coffee production exemplifies this issue, because large losses in areas suitable for coffee production have been projected due to climate c...

The accurate and timely assessment of pasture quantity quality (i.e., nutritive characteristics) is vital for effective management. Remotely sensed data can be used to predict quality. This study investigated the ability Sentinel-2 multispectral bands, convolved from proximal hyperspectral data, in predicting various parameters. Field (quantitative spectral) were gathered experimental plots rep...

Marine nematodes of the genus Anisakis are common parasites of a wide range of aquatic organisms. Public interest is primarily based on their importance as zoonotic agents of the human Anisakiasis, a severe infection of the gastro-intestinal tract as result of consuming live larvae in insufficiently cooked fish dishes. The diverse nature of external impacts unequally influencing larval and adul...

The suitability of Genetic Algorithms (GAs) to solve a combinatorial problem with only one solution is investigated. The dependence of the performance is studied for GA-hard and GA-soft tness functions, both with a range of diierent parameter values and diierent encodings.

Three classes of parallel algorithms for short{range classical molecular dynamics are presented and contrasted and their suitability for simulation of molecular systems is discussed. Performance of the algorithms on the Intel Paragon and Cray T3D in benchmark simulations of Lennard{Jones systems and of a macromolecular system is also highlighted.

Survey data over the last 100 years indicate that populations of the endemic Hawaiian leafroller moth, Omiodes continuatalis (Wallengren) (Lepidoptera: Crambidae), have declined, and the species is extirpated from large portions of its original range. Declines have been attributed largely to the invasion of non-native parasitoid species into Hawaiian ecosystems. To quantify changes in O. contin...