The purpose of this study was to evaluate the profitability of hatchery litter recycling into poultry feedstuff supplement. The data were collected in 2011 in 4 provinces, by direct interviewing of all hatcheries which used the hatchery litter drying machine. Net Present Value (NPV), Benefit-Cost Ratio (BCR), and Internal Rate of Return (IRR) methods were applied for this analysis. In the studi...

BACKGROUND This systematic review summarized recent evidence pertaining to the clinical effectiveness of 64-slice or higher computed tomography angiography (CTA) in patients with suspected coronary artery disease (CAD). If CTA proves to be a successful diagnostic performance measure, it could prevent the use of invasive diagnostic procedures in some patients. This would provide multiple health ...

In the paper a model of non-financial investment profitability calculation is presented. It based on concept quantile risk measures and real option valuation. Application Monte Carlo simulation allows to receive probability distribution Net Present Value (NPV) implement like Cash Flow at Risk (CFaR), (NPVaR) or Expected Shortfall (ES) in relation NPV (ES (NPV)). The main contribution article im...

BACKGROUND Magnetic resonance index of activity (MaRIA) and Clermont score are currently the two main MRI indices that have been validated compared to endoscopy in Crohn's disease (CD). AIMS To compare the accuracy of MaRIA and Clermont score in assessing CD mucosal healing. METHODS Fourty-four CD patients underwent prospectively and consecutively MRI and colonoscopy. RESULTS Considering ...

The gypsy moth, Lymantria dispar (L.) (Lepidoptera: Lymantriidae) nucleopolyhedrovirus LdMNPV was tested as a synergist for nucleopolyhedroviruses against Helicoverpa zea (Boddie), Spodoptera exigua (Hübner), and Spodoptera frugiperda (J.E. Smith) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) larvae. The addition of the gypsy moth NPV significantly decreased the LC50s of AcMNPV, AfMNPV, GmMNPV, HaMNPV, HzSNPV, PxMN...

This paper provides an overview of information processing accounts of pictures of objects and of non-picture visuals (NPVs) such as graphs and diagrams, including theories of graph comprehension. Compared to the study of objects, there appear to be rather few information processing studies of NPVs. An NPV corpus was developed and items were used as visual stimuli in four cognitive tasks. The ta...

This study concerns the scope to improve water flooding in heterogeneous reservoirs. We used an existing, in-house developed, optimization program consisting of a reservoir simulator in combination with an adjoint-based optimal control algorithm. In particular we aimed to examine the scope for optimization in a two-dimensional horizontal reservoir containing a single high permeable streak, ...