Implementing the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP) as the centerpiece of a poverty-reduction strategy implies that agriculture and its individual subsectors must play a primary role as leading sources of pro-poor growth at national level. Uganda and other African countries pursuing the CAADP agenda are not just seeking to accelerate growth but also to maximize and b...

This paper presents a performance analysis of the recently proposed σ-self-adaptive weighted recombination evolution strategy (ES) with scaled weights. The steady state behavior of this ES is investigated for the non-noisy and noisy case, and formulas for the optimal choice of the learning parameter are derived allowing the strategy to reach maximal performance. A comparison between weighted mu...

Batie et al. [Chemistry and Biochemistiv, of "avoenzymes, 3, 543-556 (1991)] proposed a classification system for ring-hydroxylating oxygenases in which the oxygenases are grouped into three c)asses in terms of the number of constituent components and the nature of the redex centers. But in recent years, many ringhydroxylating oxygenases haye been newly identified and characterized, and found d...

BACKGROUND Community members, Aboriginal organizations, public servants and academics have long been describing a desperate situation of food insecurity in the Eastern Canadian Arctic. OBJECTIVE The Nunavut Food Security Coalition, a partnership of Inuit Organizations and the Government of Nunavut, is collaborating to develop a territorial food security strategy to address pervasive food inse...

The Duality of IT There’s a duality to IT that creates dilemmas for business leaders. This duality, manifest in the following five forms, gives IT the power to reshape the strategic agenda of organizations. First, IT enables both sustaining and disruptive innovation. Thus, a key strategic issue for digital business strategists involves discerning whether an IT innovation is sustaining, disrupti...

Recent reports of training-induced gains on fluid intelligence tests have fueled an explosion of interest in cognitive training-now a billion-dollar industry. The interpretation of these results is questionable because score gains can be dominated by factors that play marginal roles in the scores themselves, and because intelligence gain is not the only possible explanation for the observed con...

Investigators often have multiple suspects to interview in order to determine whether they are guilty or innocent of a crime. Nevertheless, co-offending has been significantly neglected within the deception detection literature. The current review is the first of its kind to discuss co-offending and the importance of examining the detection of deception within groups. Groups of suspects can be ...

The endemic malarias threaten the several billion people residing where transmission occurs. Chemotherapeutic strategy pitted against these threats hinges upon species- and stage-specific treatments guided by diagnosis and screening against sometime dangerous contraindications. This approach suits malaria as it occurs among travelers in the developed, non-endemic world. However, limiting treatm...

Most of the works on learning from networked data assume that the network is static. In this paper we consider a different scenario, where the network is dynamic, i.e. nodes/relationships can be added or removed and relationships can change in their type over time. We assume that the “core” of the network is more stable than the “marginal” part of the network, nevertheless it can change with ti...

A new adaptation scheme for adapting arbitrary normal mutation distributions in evolution strategies is introduced. It can adapt correct scaling and correlations between object parameters. Furthermore, it is independent of any rotation of the objective function and reliably adapts mutation distributions corresponding to hyperellipsoids with high axis ratio. In simulations, the generating set ad...