Experiments were conducted at the CSIR-Crops Research Experimental station at Kumasi, Ghana, to determine the effects of seed sorting and planting device on yield of maize in the 2014 major growing season. Two jab planters were used to plant sorted and unsorted seeds. The control treatment was cutlass planting of unsorted seed. One of the jab planters was imported from China; and the other was ...

Sensitive analog systems in mixed-signal VLSI circuits may be vulnerable to digital noise. We demonstrate a possible solution by optically remoting charge packets with a multiplequantum-well self-electrooptic effect device in a novel self-linearized mode. c © 2000 Optical Society of America OCIS codes: (230.4110) Modulators; (200.4650) Optical interconnects In such mixed-signal VLSI electronic ...

This study presents a real-time crash prediction model and uses this model to investigate the effect of the local traffic-responsive ramp metering strategy on freeway safety. Safety benefits of ramp metering are quantified in terms of the reduced crash potential estimated by the real-time crash prediction model. Driver responses to ramp metering and the consequent traffic flow changes were obse...

In order to decide on advertisement fees for web servers, Naor and Pinkas [15] introduced metering schemes secure against coalition of corrupt servers and clients. In their schemes any server is able to construct a proof to be sent to an audit agency if and only if it has been visited by at least a certain number of clients. After that in series of papers Masucci et. al. [1–3, 13, 14] generaliz...

Time-based metering is an efficient air traffic management alternative to the more common practice of distance-based metering (or “miles-in-trail spacing”). Despite having demonstrated significant operational benefit to airspace users and service providers, time-based metering is used in the United States for arrivals to just nine airports and is not used at all for non-arrival traffic flows. T...

As an efficient traffic control strategy to ameliorate freeway traffic congestion, ramp metering has been successfully applied in the US. However, the applicability and effectiveness of a ramp-metering strategy are required to be investigated during the preimplementation phase in order to ensure the success of the implementation. The use of traffic simulation models can provide a quick and cost...

Accurate anomaly detection of gateway electrical energy metering device is important for maintenance and operations in the power systems. Traditionally, was typically performed manually through analysis collected information. However, manual process time-consuming labor-intensive. In this condition, paper proposes a hybrid deep-learning model, which integrates Stacked Autoencoder (SAE) Long Sho...

The Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) brought great computational advancements to transform the computing paradigm into a living ecosystem from edge infrastructures to business value propositions. Such advancements form a collaboration network among various entities, services and things which we call Edge-to-Business (E2B) value chain. However, along with the rise of E2B evolution, there is a need f...

We develop an anticipative model-based predictive traffic control approach for ramp metering in freeway traffic networks. If ramp metering is implemented in a freeway network with alternative routes, traffic can spontaneously re-route due to the response of the drivers to the applied control actions. Although spontaneous re-routing can have a significant influence on the resulting traffic situa...