objective(s) while the nucleus accumbens and the striatum have received much attention regarding their roles in stereotyped behaviors, the role of the medial prefrontal cortex (mpfc) has not been investigated to the same degree. few studies have reported the role of the mpfc in dopaminergic induction of locomotor hyperactivity. the mpfc is a heterogeneous area (the anterior cingulated, prelimbi...

This work adds to the previous literature on networked business incubators (NBIs) by exploring the complex network of relationships originated from a NBI. In particular, social ties (cooperative relations between individuals) and business ties (formal linkages between organizations) are investigated. The analytical framework developed here is empirically illustrated through a case study researc...

Recent advancements in photovoltaic (PV) system technologies have decreased their investment cost and enabled the construction of large PV farms for bulk power generations. The output power of PV farms is aaected by both failure of composed components and solar radiation variability. These two factors cause the output power of PV farms be random and diierent from that of conventional units. The...

Smallholder agriculture remains the heart of Ghana’s food crop production and crucial to meet zero-hunger target. Unfortunately, rural households continue see no significant improvement in their livelihoods, as poverty insecurity remain high these areas. This has raised concerns about economic viability smallholder Ghana. We estimated propensity score matching on a sample 581 farmers determine ...

Abstract Diversification is a common livelihood strategy for rural households in developing countries, with diversification being either choice or necessity depending on individual household contexts. Using two waves of data (from 2009 and 2011) 1773 from eight countries sub‐Saharan Africa, we examined its drivers. We by considering involvement three activities: crop, livestock, non‐farm. Resul...

Contractual agreements between smallholder farmers and agribusiness companies have gained in importance many developing countries. While productivity income effects of contracting the small farm sector were analyzed previous studies, labor market employment are not yet well understood. This is an important research gap, especially against background continued population growth structural transf...

Abstract: Seed treatment is important for protecting seed and seedling from pests and/or pathogens. can be performed generally in two ways: industrial (IST), by companies, or on-farm (OFT). These technologies will affect the final quality of process. Therefore, objective this study was to characterize profile ISTs OFTs Brazilian agribusiness terms functional dose application effectiveness (DAE)...

We explore the role of farm animals in providing care to different types of participants at care farms (e.g., youngsters with behavioural problems, people with severe mental problems and people with dementia). Care farms provide alternative and promising settings where people can interact with animals compared to a therapeutic healthcare setting. We performed a literature review, conducted focu...

Online detectors form an important part of achieving coordination and synchronization in large-scale distributed applications running in peer to peer systems, the Grid, PlanetLab, and large-scale Enterprise like server farms. Detectors can be used to monitor the up/down status of hosts, the malicious behavior among processes, the availability behavior among hosts, and to estimate the number of ...

We address the challenge of link estimation and routing over highly dynamic links, thats is, bursty links that rapidly shift between reliable and unreliable periods of transmissions. Based on significant empirical evidence of over 100,000 transmissions over each link in 802.15.4 and 802.11 testbeds, we propose two metrics, expected future transmissions (EFT) and MAC3, for runtime estimation of ...