This study examined the current state of abandonment and conversion of shrimp ponds in several areas of Thailand and identified patterns in conversion activities. A semi-structured questionnaire was used to gather data from farmers, head villagers, and stakeholders in villages throughout Chanthaburi, Chachoengsao, and Samut Sakhon provinces. These areas were selected because they had experience...

Recent technological advances are putting increased pressure on CPU scheduling. On one hand, processors have more cores. On the other hand, I/O systems have become more complex. Intensive research has been conducted on multi/many-core scheduling; however, most of the studies follow the conventional approach and focus on the utilization and load balance of the cores. In this study, we focus on i...

Available literature suggests a need for both initial cardiopulmonary resuscitation training and refresher courses. The establishment of a pediatric chain of survival for victims of cardiopulmonary arrest is the focus of this technical report and is advocated in the accompanying policy statement. Immediate bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation for victims of cardiac arrest improves survival f...

Cloud enabled systems have become a crucial component to efficiently process and analyze massive amounts of data. One of the key data processing and analysis operations is the Similarity Join, which retrieves all data pairs whose distances are smaller than a predefined threshold ε. Even though multiple algorithms and implementation techniques have been proposed for Similarity Joins, very little...

An experiment was conducted over a period of 150 days at Can Tho, Vietnam to adapt integrated cage-cum-pond systems to local conditions in Vietnam, to determine appropriate stocking density of selected fish species in cages, to assess growth and production of fishes in both cages and open ponds, and to assess the economic and environmental benefits of this integrated system. Nile tilapia (Oreoc...

A feeding trial was conducted towards optimization of feeding regimes for semi-intensive culture of Mozambique tilapia in earthen ponds in order to improve pond and effluent water quality, and reduce feeding cost. Fifty Mozambique tilapia fingerlings with an average weight of 17.8 ± 1.6 g were stocked in each of the 40 hapas. The experimental layout consisted of five feeding treatments of 20, 4...

Tilapia was introduced to Bangladesh in 1954. Culture of this species is still in its infancy compared to neighboring countries, including Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam. Despite many positive culture attributes of tilapia, culture in Bangladesh may be constrained by different technical, socio-economic, and institutional factors. Some attempts have been made by the Department...

Recently, with the rapid development of mobile devices and the crowdsourcing platforms, the spatial crowdsourcing has attracted much attention from the database community. Specifically, spatial crowdsourcing refers to sending a location-based request to workers according to their positions, and workers need to physically move to specified locations to conduct tasks. Many works have studied task...

In this technical report we present a database schema used to store Wikipedia so it can be easily used in query-intensive applications. In addition to storing the information in a way that makes it highly accessible, our schema enables users to easily formulate complex queries using information such as the anchor-text of links and their location in the page, the titles and number of redirect pa...

Video streaming over the Internet has gained popularity during the recent years which is mainly the result of the introduction of videoconferencing and videotelephony. These in turn have made it possible to bring to life many applications such as transmitting video over the Internet and over telephone lines, surveillance and monitoring, telemedicine (medical consultation and diagnosis at a dist...