a Centre of Post-Graduation and Research in Management, School of Economic Sciences, Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Antônio Carlos Avenue, 6627, Pampulha, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, 31270‐901, Brazil b Department of Administrative Sciences, School of Economic Sciences, Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Antônio Carlos Avenue, 6627, Pampulha, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, ...

Pumpkins for Halloween usage have become a widely grown crop in Tennessee. This season four fungicide treatments were evaluated for efficacy at The University of Tennessee Plateau Experiment Station at Crossville in 2001. Foliar diseases require a strict spray schedule for effective control. Therefore, a well balanced Integrated Pest Management program for control of mildew and blight diseases ...

Many studies exist about the selection phase of fungicide resistance evolution, where a resistant strain is present in a pathogen population and is differentially selected for by the application of fungicides. The emergence phase of the evolution of fungicide resistance--where the resistant strain is not present in the population and has to arise through mutation and subsequently invade the pop...

Cottonball, caused by the fungus Monilinia oxycocci, is an economically important disease on many cranberry marshes in Wisconsin. Cottonball has also been described in the Pacific Northwest and southeastern Canada, but losses in these areas have generally been minor. For reasons that are not known, cottonball has increased in importance in Wisconsin over the past 30 years. In recent years, abou...

51 A Comparison of Multi-Criteria Decision Making Approaches for Maintenance Strategy Selection (A Case Study); Malek Tajadod, Department of Industrial Engineering, Shahid Bahonar University, Kerman, Iran Mohammadali Abedini, Department of Industrial Engineering, Iran University of Science and Technology (IUST), Tehran, Iran Ali Rategari, School of Innovation, Design and Engineering, Mälardalen...

Analysis of more than 20 projects for clustering small and medium enterprises and supporting organizations in different Latin American countries has uncovered a number of barriers, activities, structures, strategies, policies and procedures that impact competitiveness. These factors mean that there are different appropriate industrial cluster and industrial business models appropriate for the s...

The majority of skill-upgrading in the United States in the 1980s and early 1990s was due to within industry shifts in skill-intensity. Traditional trade theory, represented by the HeckscherOhlin model, predicts that trade affects relative employment primarily by shifting resources across industries. For this reason, many economists have concluded that international trade has played a minor rol...

After explaining the basic operation of a SiC JFET plus silicon MOSFET cascode circuit, the dynamics of cascode switching will be discussed and the use of a QRR tester to evaluate the reverse-recovery characteristics of a cascode circuit will be explained. A comparison of the cascode’s reverse recovery with that of a SiC MOSFET reveals that the JFET cascode actually performs better than the SiC...