In recent time, the prevalence of hunger, malnutrition and food insecurity have increased in most African countries as continent continued to experience rising number people that are undernourished. This paper reveals progress region pursuit SDG 2 target by 2030 considering both global Africa threshold (rating) 2019. The SDG2 achievement is facing serious obstacles such high level poverty, unem...

The study investigated the prevalence and consequences of insecurity on livelihoods rural households in Enugu State, Nigeria. A three-stage random sampling technique was used to select a total 108 respondents from nine communities for study. Data were collected using structured questionnaire. data analyzed with mean percentages. revealed that looting farm produce (54.6%), communal fights (76.9%...

This paper employs advanced time series methods to identify the dynamic properties of three hostage taking series. The immediate and long run multipliers of three covariates—successful past negotiations, violent ends, and deaths—are identified. Each hostage series responds differently to the covariates. Past concessions have the strongest impact on generating future kidnapping events, supportin...

This paper presents design considerations of an Extended Kalman Filter (EKF) based Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) aided indoor localization for unmanned vehicles (UV). In this approach, we integrate Received Signal Strength Indicator (RSSI) measurements into an EKF based localization system. The localization system primarily uses measurements from a Laser Range Finder (LRF) and keeps track of th...

In this paper we present a new probabilistic feature-based approach to multi-hypothesis global localization and pose tracking. Hypotheses are generated using a constraintbased search in the interpretation tree of possible localto-global pairings. This results in a set of robot location hypotheses of unbounded accuracy. For tracking, the same constraint-based technique is used. It performs track...

A new fair electronic cash system is proposed based on group blind signature and secret sharing scheme. Our proposed system is dynamic: we propose a method to delete the dishonest banks that maybe attack the system, which was not mentioned in the previous literatures. Our proposed scheme does not need a trusted third party to trace users: a shop owning suspicious ecoin and the bank having issue...

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Localization of a robot is a central theme of different elaborations. But the determination of an exact position for a vehicle in urban area is more complex and an extensive algorithm challenge. This paper adresses the precise localization of a vehicle by combination of different sensor information using a Kalman and Particle filter. We present a vision based approach, which handles especially ...

Despite stringent and fine tuned laws most jurisdictions are not able to curb organ trafficking. Nor are they able to provide organs to the needy. There are reports of the kidnapping and murder of children and adults to "harvest" their organs. Millions of people are suffering, not because the organs are not available but because "morality" does not allow them to have access to the organs. Argum...