The family Anatidae consists of aquatic birds such as ducks, geese and swans of varied sizes that belong to the order Anseriformes (Carboneras, 1992).The Anatidae comprise of approximately 148 species (Johnsgard, 2010).This family is commonly found across the globe except for in Antarctica.Data on ecology and population of these water birds was tak
Abstract Background Gulf War Illness (GWI) remains a serious health consequence for at least 11,000 veterans of the first Gulf War in the early 1990s.Our understanding of the health consequences that resulted remains inadequate, and this is of great concern with another deployment to the same theater of operations occurring now.Chronic immune cell
The phenomenon of Global Software Development (GSD) has attracted the interest of businesses all over the world.It brings together partners from various national and corporate cultures to develop applications with numerous advantages, including access to a vast labor pool, cost savings, and round the clock growth.GSD, on the other hand, is technolo
Effective steel surface defect classification with low computational cost is essential for online quality inspection.The challenge of this task is large intra-class differences and unclear inter-class distances shown in various surface defects.This paper proposes a novel feature extraction method based on Legendre multi-wavelet transform and Auto-E