Improving use

Improving Nitrogen Use Efficiency for Cereal Production

found, had they considered N derived from the soil (Keeney, 1982; van der Ploeg et al., 1997). Using the Worldwide, nitrogen use efficiency (NUE) for cereal production same references and assumptions in Table 1, cereal (wheat, Triticum aestivum L.; corn, Zea mays L.; rice, Oryza sativa L. and O. glaberrima Steud.; barley, Hordeum vulgare L.; sorghum, NUEs are 42 and 29% in developed and develop...

Improving the use of clinical databases.

This study shows that concerns about compliance with paper diaries are justified. Although patients reported high compliance, actual compliance was low and hoarding was common. The excellent compliance achieved with the electronic diary indicates that low compliance was not due to this particular sample or to an overly burdensome protocol. Overall, these results call into question the validity ...

Improving the TAMI for use with athletes.

Athletes have been shown to have greater movement imagery abilities than non-athletes. However, since these differences were observed using questionnaires where participants subjectively judged the vividness of performing imagined movements, it is possible that responses could be biased by other factors such as social desirability. One possible solution is to use an objective test, such as the ...

Use of TCP Decoupling in Improving TCP

We propose using the TCP decoupling approach to improve a TCP connection's goodput over wireless networks. The performance improvement can be analytically shown to be proportional to p MT U=HP Sz, where MTU is the maximum transmission unit of participating wireless links and HP Sz is the size of a packet containing only a TCP/IP header. For example, on a WaveLAN 33] wireless network, where MTU ...

Improving the use of medical technology.