a study was carried out to evaluate the secondary sexual characteristics of four strains of cocks, comprising of two (2) exotics; bovan nera black (bnb) and isa brown (isb), one (1) improved local strain, shika brown (sb) and one (1) unimproved local strain, normal feathered cock (nfc). a total of 64 birds (16 for each strain) at 36, 38, 40 and 42 weeks were used for the study. the result indic...

Identity Based Encryption (IBE) systems are often constructed using pairings or lattices. Three exceptions are due to Cocks in 2001, Boneh, Gentry and Hamburg in 2007, and Paterson and Srinivasan in 2009. The main goal of this paper to propose new IBE schemes, which may give a way to find IBEs without pairing or lattice. Essentially, the security of our IBE schemes is rooted in the intractabili...

This paper presents a comparison between a number of different failure prediction methods for superplastic forming processes. Attention is limited here to superplastic forming of Ti-6Al-4V at 927C. The failure prediction methods considered include the flow localisation factor approach, forming limit curves based on void growth models, such as the Rice and Tracey model and the Cocks and Ashby mo...

An eighteen-week feeding trial was conducted to investigate the effect of feeding graded levels of Wild Sunflower Forage Meal (WSFM) in isoproteinous diets on the growth and reproductive characteristics of Anak 2000 broiler cocks at puberty. Two hundred and forty day-old broiler cock chicks were randomly allocated to six dietary treatment groups of five replicates each, to make forty chicks per...

Effectiveness of current passive zoonotic disease surveillance systems is limited by the under-reporting of disease outbreaks in the domestic animal population. Evaluating the acceptability of passive surveillance and its economic, social and cultural determinants appears a critical step for improving it. A participatory rural appraisal was implemented in a rural subdistrict of Thailand. Focus ...

The use of elliptic and hyperelliptic curves in cryptography relies on the ability to compute the Jacobian order of a given curve. Recently, Satoh proposed a probabilistic polynomial time algorithm to test whether the Jacobian – over a finite field Fq – of a hyperelliptic curve of the form Y 2 = X + aX + bX (with a, b ∈ Fq) has a large prime factor. His approach is to obtain candidates for the ...

A study was carried out to evaluate the secondary sexual characteristics of four strains of cocks, comprising of two (2) exotics; Bovan Nera Black (BNB) and Isa Brown (ISB), one (1) improved local strain, Shika Brown (SB) and one (1) unimproved local strain, normal feathered cock (NFC). A total of 64 birds (16 for each strain) at 36, 38, 40 and 42 weeks were used for the study. The result indic...