Rice is a staple food in almost all parts of the world, especially Africa and Asia, as rich source carbohydrate. However, rice cultivation contributes greatly to climate change through emission greenhouse gases involved soil plant management, fertiliser application well water management practices.
 
 While environmental benefits environmentally smart farming practices Nigeria have bee...

BACKGROUND The present study aimed to define the optimal number of atlases for automatic multi-atlas-based brachial plexus (BP) segmentation and to compare Simultaneous Truth and Performance Level Estimation (STAPLE) label fusion with Patch label fusion using the ADMIRE® software. The accuracy of the autosegmentations was measured by comparing all of the generated autosegmentations with the ana...

Agriculture is an important engine of growth and poverty reduction in much of Africa, Nigeria inclusive. But the sector is underperforming in part because women, who are often crucial resource in agriculture and rural economy, face constraints that reduce their productivity. An understanding of these constraints is a prerequisite to devising policies to improve agricultural production and produ...

In the past, only about 10% of the World population used root crops as the major staple, [1] but presently the diet of most Ghanaians is based on roots and tubers, and on processed cereal grains. The common roots and tubers utilized in Ghana are mostly cassava, yam and cocoyam. Cereals such as rice, maize and sorghum are also greatly patronized. However, there are other important roots and tube...

In this paper we develop a framework for the ownership structures of electronic markets and contrast different alternatives by using a case study in the automotive industry. Focus is General Motors’ decision to join the industry electronic market place Covisint and Volkswagen’s decision to build an individual solution. Building on multiple theories from inter-organizational relationship formati...

The Broadband Services Expert Group in Australia, In its recent final report Networking Australia's Future, recommended support for trials of narrowband and broadband innovations. This paper briefly outlines the planning under way for major trials of lnternet and broadband In Canberra. The Canberra Telecornmunlty Project, cosrdlnated by the University of Canberra, is an attempt to monitor and t...

This paper identifies factors that are driving success in the business-to-consumer area of e-commerce in the US and analyses their applicability to the German market. Some of the success factors refer to critical mass phenomena and are likely to be effective in Germany once a certain threshold has been overcome. For others, specific functional solutions have been developed historically in Germa...

Introduction STAPLE is an expectation-maximization algorithm for Simultaneous Truth And Performance Level Estimation. The algorithm considers a collection of segmentations and computes a probabilistic estimate of the hidden, implicit, true segmentation and a measure of the performance level achieved by each segmentation. The source of each segmentation in the collection may be an appropriately ...

BACKGROUND This study was performed to evaluate the association between food intake frequencies and long-term blood glucose control using glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c) in Korean diabetes. METHODS This study used data collected from the 4th Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. Patients with diabetes were defined as people who responded "yes" to the question "Are you currently ...