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ASSESSMENT OF THE CARBON EMITTED FROM THE LAYER AND YOUNG CHICKEN FARMING UNDER THE UNCERTAINTY

Decision making under uncertainty could analyzed environmental problems from the energy using of the tender young chicken and layer farms in egg production. The analysis was based on pay of matrix principle by using all alternatives such as the energy sectors, situations of carbon emission from young chicken farms and layer farms. Then make the decision follow Pay off Matrix, Laplace Rule, Maximax Rules and Minimax Regret Rule on environmental problems. Life cycle inventory is a useful tool for estimating carbon mass of the food support eating. Layers were energy using animals that were raised for their egg, and produced emissions of green house gases such as CO2 and CH4. Therefore it was important to study and understand the relationship between the carbon emissions and carbon mass transfer for egg production. This case study of egg production was done to evaluate carbon emission on layer farms, to investigate the rate of carbon massflow from layer feed to layers and egg in farms and to study the carbon emission in energy patterns from electric energy and petrol used of the tender young chicken and layer farms in egg production. The study showed that total carbon emission per individual per year for production of layers was 0.030 tonC. /ind. /year. According to theories and rules applied in making the decision on environmental problems, they could be concluded that LPG and electricity were the best alternative but transportation energy for layer and egg production caused highest environmental problems among these three alternatives of the energy sectors. The study also showed that in both provinces, Nakhon Nayok and Khon Kaen, immature layers emitted carbon from the use of energy less than mature layers. The carbon emission from the using of transportation energy was quite high in terms of energy using but low in the using of electricity and LPG activities. Therefore, farmers should reduce emissions from energy consumption such as reduce distance for layer feed and layers transportation to farms. The using of fuel for transportation should be reduced because it creates the highest carbon emission.
Estimating local thickness for finite element analysis

Within the development of motor vehicles, crash safety is one of the most important attributes. To comply with the ever increasing requirements of shorter cycle times and costs reduction, car manufacturers keep intensifying the use of virtual development tools, such as, for crash simulations, the explicit finite element method (FEM). The accuracy of the simulation process is highly dependent on the accuracy of the model, including the midplane mesh. One of the roughest approximations typically made is the actual part thickness which, although most frequently modelled as a constant value, can, in reality, vary locally. Availability of per element thickness information, which does not exist explicitly in the FEM model, is one key enabler and can significantly contribute to an improved crash simulation quality, especially regarding fracture prediction. Although not explicitly available, thickness can be inferred from the original CAD geometric model through geometric calculations. This paper proposes and compares two thickness estimation algorithms based on ray tracing and nearest neighbour 3D range searches. A systematic quantitative analysis of the accuracy of both algorithms is presented, as well as a thorough identification of particular geometric arrangements under which their accuracy can be compared. These results enable the identification of each technique's weaknesses and hint towards a new, integrated, approach to the problem that linearly combines the estimates produced by each algorithm.
Leveraging citation networks to generate narrative visualizations of scholars’ careers

We present an approach for generating dynamic narrative visualizations of scholars’ careers. This approach includes an animated node-link diagram which shows the citation network accumulated around the researcher over the course of the career, with nodes and links appearing as the representation of the career progresses. Additional data provide more richness to the narrative, including timelines of key indicators, career milestones, and excerpts from qualitative interviews with the scholars. The intended audiences for this work include the scholars, who can enjoy and gain insight from a new way of looking back on their careers, and funding agencies, who have an interest in finding ways to evaluate the impact that their scholars have had.
Improvement in Efficiency and Operating Range of Centrifugal Blower Stage for Sewage Aeration Blower

We developed a high-efficiency, wide-operating-range centrifugal blower stage to meet the demand for reduced total energy-consumption in sewage treatment plants. We improved the efficiency of the two-dimensional impeller using a shape optimization tool and one-dimensional performance prediction tool. A limit of the throat deceleration ratio was set to maintain the stall-margin of the impeller. The low solidity vaned diffuser and return channel were designed using a sensitivity analysis with orthogonal arrays and three-dimensional steady flow simulations. The low solidity diffuser was designed in order to improve the performance in the low-flow-rate region. The return channel was designed so that the total pressure loss in the return channel was minimized. Model tests of both the conventional and optimized blower stages were carried out, and the efficiency and operating range of both stages were compared. The optimized blower stage improved in stage efficiency by 3% and in operating range by 5% compared with the conventional blower stage.
Adaptability and stability of maize landrace varieties Adaptabilidade e estabilidade de variedades de milho crioulo

Maize landrace varieties are known to be adaptable to different environmental conditions. The objective of this work was to estimate and compare adaptability and stability parameters of 12 maize landrace varieties during two cycles of recurrent selection. The study used grain yield data from eight experiments in the first selection cycle (Group I) and seven experiments in the second cycle (Group II). The experiments were conducted in Paraná and Santa Catarina states. Each experiment evaluated 12 maize landrace varieties and one control variety, BR106. The experiments involved a randomized complete block design in which four methodologies were used to analyze variety stability and adaptability. The majority of the maize landraces assessed were competitive with the control BR 106 in the environments studied. Different adaptability and stability outcomes were verified for both groups. The varieties Macaco, Amarelão and Carioca, from Group I, and Palha Roxa, Amarelão and Astequinha Sabugo Fino, from Group II, showed superior average grain yield, general adaptability and stability.
Economic Growth, Productivity and Convergence of Middle East and North African Countries

The present study tried to understand spatial and temporal variation in economic growth and productivity of the Middle East and North African Region for the period 1971-2014. Further, we also tested the hypothesis of regional convergence in the neo-classical framework. The study is based on the Penn World Table data of a sample of the Middle East and North African countries. Our findings suggest that oil-dependent economies have shown large variations in growth which can be linked with the fluctuations of oil price. Due to rapid population and labour force growth (both nationals and immigrants) in most of the oil-based economies, growth rates of per capita GDP and per worker GDP are quite meagre. Total factor productivity does not play a significant role and growth in the region is due to the capital accumulation. Both beta and sigma measures of convergence suggest that there is convergence in per worker GDP (labour productivity) and per capita GDP.
Extending The Augmented Solow Growth Model To Explain Transitional Economies

The development of countries in economic transition is often misunderstood. These countries are neither underdeveloped nor are they developed, they are somewhere in between. Therefore, macroeconomic models of transitional economies must include aspects of both underdeveloped and developed countries. Two such variables that should be included are institutions and learning-by-doing. Institutions that are established in the society are important because they can either hinder or accelerate economic growth. Just as important for transitional economies is learning-by-doing, as it takes time to learn how a new economic system works. This paper presents a macroeconomic model for transitional economies that extends the Augmented Solow Growth Model to incorporate learning-by-doing and institutions.
A Study of Channel Coding and Decoding for Satellite Signals

Low-density parity check (LDPC) codes which have many encouraging characteristics, such as the lower complexities of the hardware implementation, closing to Shannon limit and no patent barrier, have gradually regained the interests of researchers. We present performance simulations in allusion to QC-LDPC codes. A fast double-recursion pipeline method which can significantly improve the encoding speed and a normalization min-sum algorithm are proposed in this paper. Simulations, hardware implementation and real test showed that QC-LDPC codes which has strong advantages on resource consumption, delay constraint and coding gain, could serves as an appealing alternative to new generation satellite navigation channel encoding and decoding. Keywords-satellite navigation; channel coding; channel decoding;Low-Density Parity-Check code
DETERMINANTS OF MANUFACTURING LOCATION CHOICE DECISIONS AMONG MANUFACTURING MULTINATIONAL CORPORATIONS IN KENYA

Multinational corporations (MNCs) contribute significantly to the global economy and the internationalization and globalization of businesses. The last decade has witnessed increased relocation of manufacturing activities by MNCs from the Kenyan market. A key aspect of the strategic and logistical decision-making for manufacturing firms is the location of production facilities. Although a great deal of research literature is available on the determinants of manufacturing location choice decisions, research on factors influencing relocation of manufacturing activities for MNCs based in Kenya is limited. The purpose of this study is to identify determinants of manufacturing location choice decision for Kenyan-based manufacturing MNCs and provide insight on factors that are contributing to increased relocation of MNCs manufacturing activities out of Kenya. The study adopted a descriptive research design and use of semi-structured questionnaires, secondary data and computer-based data review as data collection methods. 27 firms representing 12.6% of the target population were considered for the study. Data was analyzed through use of descriptive and inferential statistical analysis. Results from the study indicate that production costs and infrastructure factors significantly influenced manufacturing location choice decisions. Keywords: Location determinants, multinational corporations, production costs, infrastructure
New Insights into Marine Migration and Winter Habitat of Gulf Sturgeon

—Migrations and movements of Gulf sturgeon Acipenser oxyrinchus desotoi were determined using satellite pop-up archival transmitting (PAT) tags and acoustic telemetry. Adult Gulf sturgeon from four rivers in northwestern Florida were caught with gill nets and were tagged with PAT and acoustic tags in the fall of 2001 and 2002. PAT tags were programmed to release in early February 2002 and 2003 to provide information about location of late-winter marine habitats. However, only 5 of 25 provided meaningful location information. Three of the PAT-tagged fish were relocated acoustically near the PAT tag pop-up locations, one of which was in Choctawhatchee Bay. Acoustic searches near Gulf of Mexico pop-up locations led to acoustic relocation of one nonreporting PAT-tagged fish and five fish tagged with acoustic transmitters only. Many of these fish were relocated on several dates in late winter, and many (including fish from the Yellow, Choctawhatchee, and Apalachicola rivers) were concentrated in a 25-km stretch of the Florida Panhandle coast, within 2 km from shore, and in depths less than 6 m. A fish that had been tagged with a PAT tag in the Yellow River was acoustically relocated in the concentration area and then in the Choctawhatchee River the following summer. It returned to the concentration area again the next winter and returned to the Choctawhatchee for the second summer. An acoustictagged fish was relocated very near a PAT tag pop-up location about 30 km south of the Suwannee River, within 12 km from shore, and in depths of 3–4 m. Pop-up locations and acoustic relocations showed that the Gulf sturgeon had migrated distances of at least 30– 180 km. These findings indicate a pattern in which Gulf sturgeon migrate considerable distances along the coastline, sometimes to specific areas of concentration, sometimes mixing with other populations, and primarily utilizing shallow (2–6 m), nearshore areas as late-winter habitats. This pattern is similar to that reported by others in this volume for Atlantic sturgeon Acipenser oxyrinchus and for green sturgeon A. medirostris.
Color combination criteria in Le Corbusier's Purist architecture based on Salubra claviers from 1931

This is the accepted version of the following article: Serra, J., Llopis, J., Torres, A. and Gimenez, M. (2015), Color combination criteria in Le Corbusier's Purist architecture based on Salubra claviers from 1931. Color Res. Appl. , which has been published in final form at http://doi.org/10.1002/col.21940
Wealth and Executive Compensation

Using new data on the wealth of Swedish CEOs, I show that higher wealth CEOs receive stronger incentives. Since high wealth (excluding own-firm holdings) implies low absolute risk aversion, this is consistent with a risk aversion explanation. To examine whether wealth is likely to proxy for power, I use lagged wealth (typically measured before the CEO was hired), and the results remain for one of two incentive measures. Also, the wealth-incentive result is not stronger for CEOs likely to face limited owner oversight. Finally, wealth is unrelated to pay levels, and is hence unlikely to proxy for skill. Copyright 2006 by The American Finance Association.
Enhancing the application of experiential marketing in the arts

While experiential marketing has become a cornerstone of recent advances in retailing, branding and events marketing, there is potential for its application in arts marketing to be extended and improved. The two main goals of this paper are to introduce and explain the Pine and Gilmore experiential marketing framework[Pine, II, B. J. and Gilmore, J. H. (1999) ‘The Experience Economy’, Harvard Business School Press, Boston. ] and its relevance to arts marketing; and to discuss the implications of Pine and Gilmore's work for two specific areas of arts marketing: the unique dimensions of the arts experience, and the strategic and tactical steps involved in staging an experience. Copyright © 2004 Henry Stewart Publications
Population Screening for Colorectal Cancer by Colonoscopy

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Sex Age Height Sex Age Height Pregnant

Imagine a website that asks the user to fill in a web form and – based on the input values – derives a relevant figure, for instance an expected salary, a medical diagnosis, or the market value of a house. How to deal with missing input values at run-time? Besides using fixed defaults, a more sophisticated approach is to use predefined dependencies (logical or correlational) between different fields to autofill missing values in an iterative way. Directed loopless graphs (in which cycles are allowed) are the ideal mathematical model to formalize these dependencies. We present two new graph-theoretic approaches to filling missing values at run-time.
Demographics in demand system

Household composition can be expected to affect the allocation of household expenditure among goods, at the very least because of economies of scale as household size increases and because different people have different needs (adults versus children, for example). Specifying demographic effects correctly in demand analysis is important both in order to estimate correct price and expenditure elasticities and for the purpose of making household welfare comparisons. A common way of including demographics is as a function that scales total expenditure, and to make this scaling function independent of the level of total expenditure. A popular method in the parametric estimation of demand systems is to estimate share equations that are quadratic in the logarithm of total expenditure, but there is also a substantial literature on the semi-parametric estimation of Engel curves. We employ some of these semi-parametric techniques to show that, for some goods, further terms are likely to be required in the Engel curve addition to quadratic terms. We use this to identify the parameters of a scaling function that varies with total expenditure.
HERITABILITY PARAMETERS FOR SPIKE TRAITS IN BREAD WHEAT BY SHAHIDA

The research was conducted to determine genetic potential in seven F3 lines which were developed from two important commercial cultivars of Sindh for the assessment of spike traits in spring wheat. The mean squares revealed that all F3 progenies along with their parents were significantly different at P≤ 0.01 for all the trails viz; spike length, number of spikelets per spike. Number of grains per spike indicated great genetic variability among the breeding material which could be utilized for the improvement of characters as well as the grain yield. The biostatistic parameters suggested transgressive segregates to be selected for spike traits of wheat. The traits spike length and spikelets per spike recorded high heritability associated with high genetic advance in most of the lines while number of grains per spike recorded low to moderate heritability in broad sense associated with high genetic advance in most of the lines. The high heritability coupled with high genetic advance values obtained in all lines for spike length and spiklelets per spike and Line-5 for number of grains per spike suggesting prompt selection at this stage for the development of new superior varieties of wheat. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Chapter 13 Analysing Music with Point-Set Compression Algorithms

Several point-set pattern-discovery and compression algorithms designed for analysing music are reviewed and evaluated. Each algorithm takes as input a point-set representation of a score in which each note is represented as a point in pitch-time space. Each algorithm computes the maximal translatable patterns (MTPs) in this input and the translational equivalence classes (TECs) of these MTPs, where each TEC contains all the occurrences of a given MTP. Each TEC is encoded as a 〈pattern,vector set〉 pair, in which the vector set gives all the vectors by which the pattern can be translated in pitch-time space to give other patterns in the input dataset. Encoding TECs in this way leads, in general, to compression, since each occurrence of a pattern within a TEC (apart from one) is encoded by a single vector, that has the same information content as one point. The algorithms reviewed here adopt different strategies aimed at selecting a set of MTP TECs that collectively cover (or almost cover) the input dataset in a way that maximizes compression. The algorithms are evaluated on two musicological tasks: classifying folk song melodies into tune families and discovering repeated themes and sections in pieces of classical music. On the first task, the best-performing algorithms achieved success rates of around 84%. In the second task, the best algorithms achieved mean F1 scores of around 0.49, with scores for individual pieces rising as high as 0.71. 13.1 Music Analysis and Data Compression A musical analysis represents a particular way of understanding certain structural aspects of a musical object, where such an object may be any quantity of music, ranging from a motive, chord or even a single note through to a complete work or even an entire corpus of works (cf. Bent, 1987, p. 1). In the spirit of the theory of David Meredith Department of Architecture, Design and Media Technology, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark e-mail: dave@create.aau. dk
Productivity Change in Taiwan's Farmers' Credit Unions: A Nonparametric Risk-Adjusted Malmquist Approach

This article proposes an extended three-stage DEA methodology similar to Fried et al. (2002) to improve the measurement of productivity growth when the assumption of free disposability of undesirable output does not apply. A directional distance function is used to construct adjusted Malmquist-Luenberger productivity indexes which simultaneously account for the impacts of undesirable outputs, environmental variables, and statistical noise. Panel data for 263 farmers' credit unions (FCUs) in Taiwan covering the 1998-2000 periods are employed to illustrate the advantages of this method. On average, the productivity of Taiwan's FCUs is found to have deteriorated over the 1998-2000 period. Although an improvement in efficiency has been observed, the major reason for the deterioration is found to be due to the regression of technology. Copyright 2007 International Association of Agricultural Economists.
Gender effects on Salix suchowensis Cheng ex Zhu. growth and wood properties as revealed by a full-sib pedigree

Abstract: Among dioecious plant species, it is common for the males to grow faster than the females. In this study, we investigated the effects of gender on the growth and wood properties of Salix suchowensis Cheng ex Zhu. using a full-sib pedigree. We observed that the segregation of sex followed a 1:1 ratio and that gender significantly affected growth traits, including tree height, ground diameter, and biomass production. Additionally, the females generally performed better than the males, which is in contrast to the common scenario for dioecious plant species. There is currently relatively little information regarding gender effects on wood properties. Therefore, we also measured the basic wood density and cellulose, hemicellulose, and lignin contents. We determined that any differences between the male and female trees regarding these wood property traits were insignificant. Recent studies revealed that the sex of willow trees is controlled by a ZW sex determination system in which the female is the heterogenic gender. Because female heterogamety is relatively rare in higher plants, our findings may be relevant for characterizing the gender effects on biological performance in dioecious plants regulated by the ZW sex determination system.