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Long-term field experiments that test a range of treatments and are intended to assess the sustainability of crop production, and thus food security, must be managed actively to identify any treatment that is failing to maintain or increase yields. Once identified, carefully considered changes can be made to the treatment or management, and if they are successful yields will change. If suitable...

I. Introduction Korean automobile industry achieved dramatic development from the stage of simple assembly of knocked-down parts to the country of 5th production volume in the world during last 30 years. This development might be achived by many factors inside or outside of the country compositely, but it might be impossible without the support of production system by which automobiles were pro...

In this work, we consider the problem of background pixels information recovering which can be used, for example, in applications concerning segmentation and tracking of components in video images. Shortly, to recover the background of image sequences representing outdoor scenes, we consider a non-parametric morphological leveling operation, which takes into account the specific problem of ligh...

SAGE is an adaptive production system model of strategy learning. The system begins a task with weak, overly general operators and uses these to find a solution to some problem by trial and error. The program then attempts to resolve the problem, using its knowledge of the solution path to determine blame when an error occurs. Once the faulty operator has been found, the system employs a proces...

Operational remote sensing systems are currently being used to monitor crop growth and climate to map impacts on crop production. The linking of these data to traditional crop forecasting systems has the capacity to improve both the spatial and temporal resolution of crop forecasts.

Livestock manures are an important resource in sustainable and organic crop production. This publication addresses the problems and challenges of using both raw and composted manures and discusses some of the solutions. It also deals with guano, a similar material. Manures for Organic

Since the introduction of acrylic fibres as a wool-like apparel fibre to the textile market in the early 1950s, their applications have greatly diversified. Substantial modifications of the acrylic fibres are now possible at several points in the manufacturing route. These range from the selection of comonomers through changes in spinning conditions to specific thermal and chemical modification...

Language production is often argued to be adapted to addressees’ needs. As an instance of this, speakers produce fewer speech accompanying hand gestures if the speaker and the addressee cannot see each other. Yet there is also empirical evidence that speakers tend to base their language production on their own perspective, rather than their addressee’s. Therefore, speakers may gesture different...