Formal certification and compliance for run-time service environments

With the increased awareness of security and safety of services in on-demand distributed service provisioning (such as the recent adoption of Cloud infrastructures), certification and compliance checking of services is becoming a key element for service engineering. Existing certification techniques tend to support mainly design-time checking of service properties and tend not to support the run-time monitoring and progressive certification in the service execution environment. In this paper we discuss an approach which provides both design-time and runtime behavioural compliance checking for a services architecture, through enabling a progressive event-driven model-checking technique. Providing an integrated approach to certification and compliance is a challenge however using analysis and monitoring techniques we present such an approach for on-going compliance checking

KanSched2 user's manual

Rogers, Danny H. and Mahbub Alam, KanSched2: An ET-Based Irrigation Scheduling Tool, Kansas State University, February 2007

Agroteknologi Konservasi untuk Meningkatkan Kualitas Tanah dan Produktivitas Kentang di Kabupaten Kerinci Provinsi Jambi (Agrotechnology Conservation To Improve Soil Quality and Potatoes Productivity In Kerinci District, Jambi Provinci)

Potato is a prime horticultural commodities for Kerinci District with production centers in the volcanic highlands of Kerinci Mount, Jambi Province. Less of physical and chemical properties of the soil, excessive fertilizers and pesticides chemical were caused potato low productivity anddeclined soil quality. The objectives of this research were to determine the potato agrotechnology that can improve soil quality and potato productivity in the Sub District of Kayu Aro, Kerinci District, Jambi Province. Potato agrotechnology were studied through small of experimental plots in Gunung Labu Village by a randomized block design with 13 treatments (agro-potato : ridges across the slope, a quality seeds, dose of lime, manure and chemical fertilizers according to the recommendations provided). Data collected include before and after of treatment of soil properties and productivity of potato. Results of the research showed that planting potatoes in ridges across the slope with 0.5 tons of Dolomite lime, 10.0 tons of manure, 150.0 kg of Urea, 150.0 kg of ZA, 25.00 kg of SP-36 and 20.00 kg KCl per hectare were sufficient to obtain optimal productivity of potato (39.52-37.0 kg/plot, equivalent 32.93-30.91 t/ha) and improved soil chemical properties of Andisol Gunung Labu Village (especially pH, base saturation and exchangeable bases) in the Western Sub District of Kayu Aro, Kerinci District .Key Words: Soil quality, agrotechnolog

SDI water quality assessment guidelines

Presented at the 15th annual Central Plains irrigation conference and exposition proceedings on February 4-5, 2003 at the City Limits Convention Center in Colby, Kansas.Includes bibliographical references

Proceedings of the 21st annual Central Plains irrigation conference, Colby Kansas, February 24-25, 2009

Presented at the the 21st annual Central Plains irrigation conference on February 24-25, 2009 in Colby, Kansas

Robustness considerations in selecting efficient two-color microarray designs

The main goal of microarray experiments is to select a small subset of genes that are differentially expressed among competing mRNA samples. For a given set of such mRNA samples, it is possible to consider a number of two-color cDNA microarray designs with a fixed number of arrays. Appropriate criteria can be used to select an efficient design from such a set of alternative experimental designs. In practice, however, microarray expression data often contain missing observations and the most efficient design (with complete observations) for a specific setup may not be efficient in the presence of missing observations. In this article, we propose two criteria to address the robustness of microarray designs against missing observations. We demonstrate the simultaneous use of efficiency and robustness criteria to select good microarray designs for both one-factor and multi-factor experiments. Contact: [email protected]

Land application of animal waste on irrigated fields

Presented at the 2007 Central Plains irrigation conference on February 27-28 in Kearney, Nebraska.Animal wastes are routinely applied to cropland to recycle nutrients, build soil quality, and increase crop productivity. This study evaluates established best management practices for land application of animal wastes on irrigated corn. Swine (effluent water from a lagoon) and cattle (solid manure from a beef feedlot) wastes have been applied annually since 1999 at rates to meet estimated corn P or N requirements along with a rate double the N requirement (2xN). Other treatments were N fertilizer (60, 120, and 180 lb N/a) and an untreated control. Corn yields were increased by application of animal wastes and N fertilizer. Over-application of cattle manure has not had a negative effect on corn yield. For swine effluent, over-application has not reduced corn yields except for 2004, when the effluent had much greater salt concentration than in previous years, which caused reduced germination and poor early growth. All animal waste and N fertilizer treatments increased soil solution NO3-N concentration (5-ft depth) compared with the untreated control. Application of animal wastes on a N requirement basis resulted in similar NO3-N concentrations as fertilizer N applied at 180 lb/a (approximate recommended rate). The 2xN application caused NO3- N concentrations to about double for both swine and cattle wastes. Application of swine effluent based on P requirement produced similar NO3-N concentrations as the 2xN rate because of the relatively low P content in the effluent

MF2587

Danny Rogers, et al, Fuel cost - an irrigation fuel cost evaluator, Kansas State University, August 2006