The creation of scientific weather forecasts is troubled by many technological challenges (Stern & Easterling, 1999) while their utilization is generally dismal. Consequently, the majority of small-scale farmers in Africa ...

Abstract: Phishing is performed by trying to trick the victim into accessing any computing information that looks original and then instructing them to send important data to unrestricted/unwanted private resources. For ...

Nowadays, it has been noted that using the application of data mining techniques for predicting the outbreak of the disease has been permitted in the health institutions which have relative opportunities for conducting ...

In the last decade, large database of images have grown rapidly. This trend is expected to continue in to the future. Retrieval and querying of these image in efficient way is a challenge in order to access the visual content ...

Although the LSB algorithm for information hiding exploits the weakness of the human vision sensitivity (HVS) to hide secret data in a cover medium, it is relatively vulnerable to statistical steganalysis thus increasing ...

Rapid and uncontrolled urbanization is a major issue in both developing and developed countries. Uncontrolled urbanization has resulted to unplanned expansion of residential and commercial areas, informal ...

Tropical montane forests are known to support many endemic species with restricted geographic ranges. Many of these species are however, faced with numerous threats, most notably from habitat loss and degradation, invasive ...

Joint models for longitudinal and time to event data are frequently used in many observational studies such as clinical trials with the aim of investigating how biomarkers which are recorded repeatedly in time are associated ...

Monitoring and estimating solid mine waste produced during mining operations at a spatial–temporal scale plays a fundamental role in waste management and mitigation of environmental impacts. Iron ore mining and processing ...

People and wildlife have co-occurred, sharing resources for thousands of years, however, over the last four decades records of humanewildlife conflict have increasingly emerged. Humaneelephant conflict is a form of such ...