Physical Sciences and Engineering

Somaliland and Somalia peace-building process has had some divergent experiences, actors and interventions. The reconciliation efforts in the peace-building initiatives in Somaliland, for instance, did not commence at the time Mohamed Siyad Barre’s regime was defeated. It was the agenda of the Somali National Movement (SNM) to reconcile the clans which have been engaged in a long period of fighting since 1988-1990. This is subsequently facilitated the restoration of peace and stability in Somaliland.

Leukoplakia is the most common Potentially malignant disorder of the oral mucosa. Tobacco consumption has been found to be the main causative agent. Due to its high risk for malignant transformation, appropriate diagnosis and proper treatment planning become mandatory. Many other white lesions appearing in the oral mucosa resemble leukoplakia. Diagnosis by exclusion is preferred by the pathologists. As an alternative to routine histopathological investigation, image analysis techniques of extracted features from the lesional micosopic images can be done.

Leukoplakia one of the common pre cancerous lesions possess a high risk of malignant transformation. This can be prevented if it is diagnosed and treated earlier.

The development of efficient simulation models can facilitate the crop planning and the crop predictability analysis. The objective of the study is to propose a simulation model of wheat grain productivity by the nitrogen supply management with variables related to the plant and the meteorological elements, in high succession systems and reduced N-residual release. In the study, two experiments were conducted in 2013, 2014 and 2015, one to quantify the biomass productivity and another one to stablish grain productivity.

This paper presents a view about the HMM-DNN hybrid approach for speech recognition. Speech recognition is becoming an active research area in the field of computer science. Many researchers have developed a good deal of methods and techniques for speech recognition. A new trend is to use hybrid approaches for this particular task. One of this hybrid approaches is to use a combination of HMM-DNN and the result is found to be quiet successful. From study it has been found that the above approach outperforms the other traditional methods like GMM-HMM.

The present paper examines the current status of ayurvedic medical college libraries in Gulbarga division, and also discusses the various aspects of the libraries such as Library staff, Budget allocation, Library collection, ICT facilities, and services in the library, under study are presented.

To fulfill the need of higher bandwidth, increased number of users, increased speed of communication of current users, the WDM and fiber optic concept was developed. WDM stands for wavelength division multiplexing where many input signals are combined together and transfers as a single input. Multiplexing and de-multiplexing concepts are used in WDM. WDM system consist of amplifiers that are used to increase the performance of the optical fiber system. This study give information about the working of Hybrid amplifiers i.e.

This paper shows a mechanism for hydrogen combustion, an important submechanism in hydrocarbon oxidation and biofuels. Once exposed the equations derived from the chemical kinetics and concentration rates of each species involved, the complete mechanism of hydrogen oxidation is displayed. The strategy for obtaining a reduced mechanism with two reactions consists of four steps. This method involves the use of assumptions of steady-state for species and partial equilibrium for reactions.

The goal of this study was to quantify memory utilization under varying work load for plain text file systems to database system with customization of existing deadline I/O scheduler. The investigation identified possibility of performance enhancement by modifying existing deadline I/O scheduler by optimizing rearrangement of blocks numbers from kernel to device drivers where the sequence of block numbers undergoes clustering via k-means clustering and later re-arranged so the disk's head movement is minimized.

The main objective of this paper was to apply the Revised Universal Soil Loss Equation (RUSLE) through Geographical Information System (GIS) in the Cubatão do Norte watershed, in Joinville and Garuva municipalities of Santa Catarina State. The map of annual estimated soil loss by water erosion showed minimum erosion rates of 429.28, average of 854.61 and maximum of 1,579.49 t/ha/year. Soil loss due to water erosion in the Cubatão do Norte watershed can be considered low, since 97.58% of the basin area presented none or slight annual average soil loss, ranging from 0 to 10 t/ha/year.