Advancements in chemical, medical, cosmetic, and plastic producing industries have improved agricultural yields, health and human life in general.As a negative consequence, a plethora of chemicals are intentionally and unintentionally released to terrestrial and aquatic environments with sometimes devastating effects for entire ecosystems.One mitig
Metaheuristic-driven enhancement of categorical boosting algorithm for flood-prone areas mapping
Managing and controlling costly natural hazards such as floods has been a fundamental and essential issue for decision-makers and planners from the past to the present.Artificial intelligence (AI) has recently proven promising to improve disaster management.There is growing interest in using AI to predict and identify flood-prone areas.However, cre
Freedom of Expression in Malaysia: Compatibility with the International Human Rights Standard
Malaysia is likely to Birthstone Gift Box introduce new laws on freedom of information.However, the important questions are whether the said laws are effective and will have enough bite with the public looking forward to opening government policy.Freedom of information has developed under international human rights law as the right to freedom of ex
ClusterMap Building and Relocalization in Urban Environments for Unmanned Vehicles
Map building and map-based relocalization techniques are important for unmanned vehicles operating in urban environments.The existing approaches require expensive high-density laser range finders and suffer from relocalization problems in long-term applications.This study proposes a novel map format called the ClusterMap, on the basis of which an a