The Egyptian Government plan to move in 25 years from an inhabited area of 6-25% of the total Nile land area to a larger one to compensate the huge increase of Egyptian populations. The decision was recently made to begin a development project at Toshka, on the western bank of the River Nile, Upper Egypt. Toshka depression is more or less close to Wadi Halfa of Sudan. Therefore, it was necessar...

In this Crystal Ball we describe the negative effects of the scheme of intensive agriculture of the green revolution technology. To recover the contaminated soils derived from intensive farming is necessary introduce new successful technologies to replace the use of chemical fertilizer and toxic pesticides by organic fertilizers and biological control agents. Our principal speculation is that i...

1. GlaxoSmithKline Australia Post Graduate Support Grant 2. NHMRC Announces New Partnership Projects Scheme 3. Grants, Scholarships And Fellowships for Research into Motor Neurone Disease 4. NSW Cancer Research Institute Grants and Fellowships 5. 2008 Australian Development Research Awards/Grants 6. The Australian Academy Of Technological Sciences and Engineering (ATSE) Crawford Fund Agricultur...

Cultured pearls can be produced both with and without a nucleus. Marine pearl oysters that produce Akoya, South Sea and Tahitian cultured pearls typically use nuclei for their pearl products. The nucleus material used for these beaded cultured pearls is traditionally from freshwater Mississippi mussels. In recent years, there have been a number of attempts to use alternative pearl and shell mat...

In this paper, we propose a new framework for joint encryption encoding scheme based on polar codes, namely efficient and secure joint secret key encryption channel coding scheme. The issue of using new coding structure, i.e. polar codes in Rao-Nam (RN) like schemes is addressed. Cryptanalysis methods show that the proposed scheme has an acceptable level of security with a relatively smaller ke...