3rd Africa Rice Congress presentation
Theme 1: climate resilient rice
Mini symposium: making greater use of Africa' indigenous genetic diversity
Author: F. Sabot
GASTOS DE PERSONAL: PROHIBICIÓN DE INCREMENTOS REMUNERATIVOS. El Ministerio de Economía y Finanzas comunica situaciones de gasto de personal y la prohibición de incrementos remunerativos (COMPILADOR JOSÉ MARÍA PACORI CARI)
Presented at the High-Level Ministerial (HLM) Conference on Rice Development in Sub-Saharan Africa 25 September 2018
Dakar, Senegal
Abebe Haile-Gabriel
FAO Regional Programme Leader for Africa, RAF
Presented at the High-Level Ministerial (HLM) Conference on Rice Development in Sub-Saharan Africa 25 September 2018
Dakar, Senegal
Presented by Dr Harold Roy-Macauley
Director General, Africa Rice Center (AfricaRice)
Presented at the High-Level Ministerial (HLM) Conference on Rice Development in Sub-Saharan Africa 25 September 2018
Dakar, Senegal
Presented by Dr Amadou Beye, Seed Specialist,
Africa Rice Center (AfricaRice)
Recensement électronique et géo-référence des acteurs de la chaine de valeur riz: cas des pays TAAT
Aminou A. et Aboudou Rachidi
TAAT Rice Compact Launch and Knowledge Sharing Workshop
6 - 7 September 2018
M’be, Bouake
Cote d’Ivoire
Partnerships for efficient quality seed production and variety dissemination
Saidu Bah
Seed & Seed Systems Expert
The Africa Rice Center
TAAT Rice Compact Launch and Knowledge Sharing Workshop
6 - 7 September 2018
M’be, Bouake
Cote d’Ivoire
AfricaRice Director General Dr Harold Roy-Macauley made a presentation on “Achieving rice self-sufficiency in Africa,” which served as a basis for an in-depth discussion by a panel of speakers consisting of Mr Ade Adefeko, Vice President and Head of Corporate and Government Relations at Olam-Nigeria; Mr Pieter Grobler, Head of Land Development at Dangote Rice Limited; and Mr Busuyi Okeowo, Deputy Team Leader at Growth & Employment in States (GEMS 4), Nigeria.
The panel discussion was organized as part of the Third Edition of the Agra Innovate West Africa Conference, on 23 November 2016 in Lagos, Nigeria, with support from the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (FMARD) and the Nigeria Agribusiness Group (NABG).
L’autosuffisance de l’Afrique en riz : opportunités et défis à l’échelledu continent africain by Dr Harold Roy-Macauley, Directeur général, AfricaRice. -- Table ronde, Montpellier, France, 28 septembre 2016 Organisée en marge de la 14ème symposium international sur la génomique fonctionnelle du riz
GASTOS DE PERSONAL: PROHIBICIÓN DE INCREMENTOS REMUNERATIVOS. El Ministerio de Economía y Finanzas comunica situaciones de gasto de personal y la prohibición de incrementos remunerativos (COMPILADOR JOSÉ MARÍA PACORI CARI)
Presented at the High-Level Ministerial (HLM) Conference on Rice Development in Sub-Saharan Africa 25 September 2018
Dakar, Senegal
Abebe Haile-Gabriel
FAO Regional Programme Leader for Africa, RAF
Presented at the High-Level Ministerial (HLM) Conference on Rice Development in Sub-Saharan Africa 25 September 2018
Dakar, Senegal
Presented by Dr Harold Roy-Macauley
Director General, Africa Rice Center (AfricaRice)
Presented at the High-Level Ministerial (HLM) Conference on Rice Development in Sub-Saharan Africa 25 September 2018
Dakar, Senegal
Presented by Dr Amadou Beye, Seed Specialist,
Africa Rice Center (AfricaRice)
Recensement électronique et géo-référence des acteurs de la chaine de valeur riz: cas des pays TAAT
Aminou A. et Aboudou Rachidi
TAAT Rice Compact Launch and Knowledge Sharing Workshop
6 - 7 September 2018
M’be, Bouake
Cote d’Ivoire
Partnerships for efficient quality seed production and variety dissemination
Saidu Bah
Seed & Seed Systems Expert
The Africa Rice Center
TAAT Rice Compact Launch and Knowledge Sharing Workshop
6 - 7 September 2018
M’be, Bouake
Cote d’Ivoire
AfricaRice Director General Dr Harold Roy-Macauley made a presentation on “Achieving rice self-sufficiency in Africa,” which served as a basis for an in-depth discussion by a panel of speakers consisting of Mr Ade Adefeko, Vice President and Head of Corporate and Government Relations at Olam-Nigeria; Mr Pieter Grobler, Head of Land Development at Dangote Rice Limited; and Mr Busuyi Okeowo, Deputy Team Leader at Growth & Employment in States (GEMS 4), Nigeria.
The panel discussion was organized as part of the Third Edition of the Agra Innovate West Africa Conference, on 23 November 2016 in Lagos, Nigeria, with support from the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (FMARD) and the Nigeria Agribusiness Group (NABG).
L’autosuffisance de l’Afrique en riz : opportunités et défis à l’échelledu continent africain by Dr Harold Roy-Macauley, Directeur général, AfricaRice. -- Table ronde, Montpellier, France, 28 septembre 2016 Organisée en marge de la 14ème symposium international sur la génomique fonctionnelle du riz
"Autosuffisance du riz en Côte d‘Ivoire Contribution d’AfricaRice" -- Harold Roy-Macauley's presentation the Ivorian dignitaries who met with the members of the AfricaRice Board of Trustees on 8 Sep 2016 during the 40th Board meeting at AfricaRice headquarters in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire.
Harold Roy-Macauley's presentation on "Global research partnership efforts: tackling food and environmental challenges in sub-Saharan Africa" at the Sixth Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD VI) Side Event organized by the World Bank on the “Future of Food in sub-Saharan Africa: Reviewing progress, charting next steps” held in Nairobi, Kenya, 26 August 2016.
Harold Roy-Macauley's presentation on "Africa Rice Center (AfricaRice): A CGIAR research center and pan-African association of member countries" to the World Bank delegation from Côte d'Ivoire led by Mr Pierre Laporte, World Bank Country Director for Côte d'Ivoire, Benin, Burkina Faso, Guinea, and Togo based in Abidjan, visited AfricaRice headquarters on 15 July 2016. The other members of the delegation were Mr Abdoulaye Touré, Lead Agricultural Economist and Task Team Leader of WAAPP-World Bank (Africa Bureau); and Mr Taleb Ould Sid Ahmed, Senior Communications Officer. Mr Hiroshi Hiraoka, Senior Agriculture Economist, AFTA2, World Bank and member of the Coalition for African Rice Development (CARD) Steering Committee also accompanied the delegation.
AfricaRice Director General Dr Harold Roy-Macauley leading the panel discussion on "Africa Riceing : Mobilizing and applying science and complementary resources to achieve self–sufficiency in rice in Africa." at the 7th Africa Agriculture Science Week and FARA General Assembly, Kigali, Rwanda, on 14 June 2016
Welcome to the first live UiPath Community Day Dubai! Join us for this unique occasion to meet our local and global UiPath Community and leaders. You will get a full view of the MEA region's automation landscape and the AI Powered automation technology capabilities of UiPath. Also, hosted by our local partners Marc Ellis, you will enjoy a half-day packed with industry insights and automation peers networking.
📕 Curious on our agenda? Wait no more!
10:00 Welcome note - UiPath Community in Dubai
Lovely Sinha, UiPath Community Chapter Leader, UiPath MVPx3, Hyper-automation Consultant, First Abu Dhabi Bank
10:20 A UiPath cross-region MEA overview
Ashraf El Zarka, VP and Managing Director MEA, UiPath
10:35: Customer Success Journey
Deepthi Deepak, Head of Intelligent Automation CoE, First Abu Dhabi Bank
11:15 The UiPath approach to GenAI with our three principles: improve accuracy, supercharge productivity, and automate more
Boris Krumrey, Global VP, Automation Innovation, UiPath
12:15 To discover how Marc Ellis leverages tech-driven solutions in recruitment and managed services.
Brendan Lingam, Director of Sales and Business Development, Marc Ellis
Enhancing Performance with Globus and the Science DMZGlobus
ESnet has led the way in helping national facilities—and many other institutions in the research community—configure Science DMZs and troubleshoot network issues to maximize data transfer performance. In this talk we will present a summary of approaches and tips for getting the most out of your network infrastructure using Globus Connect Server.
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
Pushing the limits of ePRTC: 100ns holdover for 100 daysAdtran
At WSTS 2024, Alon Stern explored the topic of parametric holdover and explained how recent research findings can be implemented in real-world PNT networks to achieve 100 nanoseconds of accuracy for up to 100 days.
SAP Sapphire 2024 - ASUG301 building better apps with SAP Fiori.pdfPeter Spielvogel
Building better applications for business users with SAP Fiori.
• What is SAP Fiori and why it matters to you
• How a better user experience drives measurable business benefits
• How to get started with SAP Fiori today
• How SAP Fiori elements accelerates application development
• How SAP Build Code includes SAP Fiori tools and other generative artificial intelligence capabilities
• How SAP Fiori paves the way for using AI in SAP apps
A tale of scale & speed: How the US Navy is enabling software delivery from l...sonjaschweigert1
Rapid and secure feature delivery is a goal across every application team and every branch of the DoD. The Navy’s DevSecOps platform, Party Barge, has achieved:
- Reduction in onboarding time from 5 weeks to 1 day
- Improved developer experience and productivity through actionable findings and reduction of false positives
- Maintenance of superior security standards and inherent policy enforcement with Authorization to Operate (ATO)
Development teams can ship efficiently and ensure applications are cyber ready for Navy Authorizing Officials (AOs). In this webinar, Sigma Defense and Anchore will give attendees a look behind the scenes and demo secure pipeline automation and security artifacts that speed up application ATO and time to production.
We will cover:
- How to remove silos in DevSecOps
- How to build efficient development pipeline roles and component templates
- How to deliver security artifacts that matter for ATO’s (SBOMs, vulnerability reports, and policy evidence)
- How to streamline operations with automated policy checks on container images
Removing Uninteresting Bytes in Software FuzzingAftab Hussain
Imagine a world where software fuzzing, the process of mutating bytes in test seeds to uncover hidden and erroneous program behaviors, becomes faster and more effective. A lot depends on the initial seeds, which can significantly dictate the trajectory of a fuzzing campaign, particularly in terms of how long it takes to uncover interesting behaviour in your code. We introduce DIAR, a technique designed to speedup fuzzing campaigns by pinpointing and eliminating those uninteresting bytes in the seeds. Picture this: instead of wasting valuable resources on meaningless mutations in large, bloated seeds, DIAR removes the unnecessary bytes, streamlining the entire process.
In this work, we equipped AFL, a popular fuzzer, with DIAR and examined two critical Linux libraries -- Libxml's xmllint, a tool for parsing xml documents, and Binutil's readelf, an essential debugging and security analysis command-line tool used to display detailed information about ELF (Executable and Linkable Format). Our preliminary results show that AFL+DIAR does not only discover new paths more quickly but also achieves higher coverage overall. This work thus showcases how starting with lean and optimized seeds can lead to faster, more comprehensive fuzzing campaigns -- and DIAR helps you find such seeds.
- These are slides of the talk given at IEEE International Conference on Software Testing Verification and Validation Workshop, ICSTW 2022.
PHP Frameworks: I want to break free (IPC Berlin 2024)Ralf Eggert
In this presentation, we examine the challenges and limitations of relying too heavily on PHP frameworks in web development. We discuss the history of PHP and its frameworks to understand how this dependence has evolved. The focus will be on providing concrete tips and strategies to reduce reliance on these frameworks, based on real-world examples and practical considerations. The goal is to equip developers with the skills and knowledge to create more flexible and future-proof web applications. We'll explore the importance of maintaining autonomy in a rapidly changing tech landscape and how to make informed decisions in PHP development.
This talk is aimed at encouraging a more independent approach to using PHP frameworks, moving towards a more flexible and future-proof approach to PHP development.
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey 2024 by 91mobiles.pdf91mobiles
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1. GLASS & IRIGIN projects:
Toward African Rices Variability
C. Monat, Ch. Tranchant, A. Ghesquière, F. Sabot
Institut de Recherche pour le Développement - francois.sabot@ird.fr
October 21, 2013
C. Monat, Ch. Tranchant, A. Ghesquière, F. Sabot
GLASS & IRIGIN
2. Oryza glaberrima: no currently available reference for
whole genome analysis
C. Monat, Ch. Tranchant, A. Ghesquière, F. Sabot
GLASS & IRIGIN
3. Oryza glaberrima: no currently available reference for whole
genome analysis
CG14 sequenced but not complete, limited access and
based on Oryza sativa
C. Monat, Ch. Tranchant, A. Ghesquière, F. Sabot
GLASS & IRIGIN
4. Oryza glaberrima: no currently available reference for whole
genome analysis
CG14 sequenced but not complete, limited access and based
on Oryza sativa
AfricaRice - IRD joint effort
C. Monat, Ch. Tranchant, A. Ghesquière, F. Sabot
GLASS & IRIGIN
5. Oryza glaberrima: no currently available reference for whole
genome analysis
CG14 sequenced but not complete, limited access and based
on Oryza sativa
AfricaRice - IRD joint effort
→
Sequencing CG14 and TOG5681
C. Monat, Ch. Tranchant, A. Ghesquière, F. Sabot
GLASS & IRIGIN
6. Illumina Sequencing 55-60x each
PacBioSequencing 12x each
C. Monat, Ch. Tranchant, A. Ghesquière, F. Sabot
GLASS & IRIGIN
7. Illumina Sequencing 55-60x each
PacBioSequencing 12x each
Different Assemblies
Still working on
C. Monat, Ch. Tranchant, A. Ghesquière, F. Sabot
GLASS & IRIGIN
8. C. Monat, Ch. Tranchant, A. Ghesquière, F. Sabot
GLASS & IRIGIN
9. More differences (sequences and collinearity)
than expected with O. sativa
C. Monat, Ch. Tranchant, A. Ghesquière, F. Sabot
GLASS & IRIGIN
17. IRIGIN Project
Illumina Depth sequencing 25x
SNP and Structural variants scored
C. Monat, Ch. Tranchant, A. Ghesquière, F. Sabot
GLASS & IRIGIN
18. IRIGIN Project
Illumina Depth sequencing 25x
SNP and Structural variants scored
100 Oryza barthii
C. Monat, Ch. Tranchant, A. Ghesquière, F. Sabot
GLASS & IRIGIN
19. IRIGIN Project
Illumina Depth sequencing 25x
SNP and Structural variants scored
100 Oryza barthii
150 O. glaberrima
C. Monat, Ch. Tranchant, A. Ghesquière, F. Sabot
GLASS & IRIGIN
20. IRIGIN Project
Illumina Depth sequencing 25x
SNP and Structural variants scored
100 Oryza barthii
150 O. glaberrima
All NERICA families and parents
C. Monat, Ch. Tranchant, A. Ghesquière, F. Sabot
GLASS & IRIGIN
21. IRIGIN Project
Illumina Depth sequencing 25x
SNP and Structural variants scored
100 Oryza barthii
150 O. glaberrima
All NERICA families and parents
O. sativa of interest for partners
C. Monat, Ch. Tranchant, A. Ghesquière, F. Sabot
GLASS & IRIGIN
23. Future prospects
Improving assemblies CG14/Tog5681 using PacBio reads
Adding New Annotation layers (genes, CDS, Expression
level, transposable elements,...)
C. Monat, Ch. Tranchant, A. Ghesquière, F. Sabot
GLASS & IRIGIN
24. Future prospects
Improving assemblies CG14/Tog5681 using PacBio reads
Adding New Annotation layers (genes, CDS, Expression level,
transposable elements,...)
Adding Variant Information from IRIGIN, SNP/InDel, SV
C. Monat, Ch. Tranchant, A. Ghesquière, F. Sabot
GLASS & IRIGIN
25. Future prospects
Improving assemblies CG14/Tog5681 using PacBio reads
Adding New Annotation layers (genes, CDS, Expression level,
transposable elements,...)
Adding Variant Information from IRIGIN, SNP/InDel, SV
Forming AfricaRice and NARs Partners to bioinformatics
using these data
C. Monat, Ch. Tranchant, A. Ghesquière, F. Sabot
GLASS & IRIGIN
26. Genome & Development of Rices Team, IRD
Alain Ghesquière, Director
François Sabot
Pierre Larmande
Christine Tranchant
Cécile Monat, PhD student
C. Monat, Ch. Tranchant, A. Ghesquière, F. Sabot
GLASS & IRIGIN
27. Thanks you for your attention
C. Monat, Ch. Tranchant, A. Ghesquière, F. Sabot
GLASS & IRIGIN