in order to identifying factors affecting milled rice breakage losses in guilan province, a research was conducted based on the descriptive survey with association of 75 rice mill owner in guilan province. factors affecting milled rice breakage losses were recognized with the delphi technique. in this regard, a descriptive questionnaire with an open-ended question was distributed among 5 rice m...

Standards for data exchange are critical to the development of any field. They enable researchers and practitioners to transport information reliably, to apply a variety of tools to their problems, and to reproduce scientific results. Over the past two decades, a range of standards have been developed to facilitate the exchange and reuse of information in the domain of representation and modeli...

The share of common data, and the requirement to find faster and reliable ways for data flow within industrial environments and manufacturer-customer relationships has during the last decade raised a set of proposals seeking methodologies and architectures towards a potential solution. Most of them were developed within the R&D community with the support of industrial companies, as it is the ca...

When the objective is to forecast a variable of interest but with many explanatory variables available, one could possibly improve the forecast by carefully integrating them. There are generally two directions one could proceed: combination of forecasts (CF) or combination of information (CI). CF combines forecasts generated from simple models each incorporating a part of the whole information ...

Antipsychotic monotherapy is strongly recommended in the treatment of schizophrenia. However, antipsychotic polypharmacy (APP) is common in clinical practice, and appears to be related to illness severity and duration, treatment-refractoriness, hospitalization status, duration of hospitalization, geographic region and age. Given the high number of different antipsychotic combinations reported i...

Ensuring reproducibility of simulation studies in computational biology poses a challenge to data management solutions. One specific problem is the organisation and linking of all files related to a simulation study at the storage level. Such a study comprises of a number of files, and additional links to third party resources. MaSyMoS is a graph-based approach to representing the links between...

To govern the commons, states often focus on structures or instruments, such as delegated co-management or tradable quotas. This research argues that this emphasis often presents a trade-off with making investments into socially just action arenas. I revisit the case of the Port Lameron groundfish and lobster fishery in Southwest Nova Scotia, Canada, originally explored by Elinor Ostrom in Gove...

Understanding the factors that underlie the production of non-timber forest products (NTFPs), as well as regularly monitoring production levels, are key to allow sustainability assessments of NTFP extractive economies. Brazil nut (Bertholletia excelsa, Lecythidaceae) seed harvesting from natural forests is one of the cornerstone NTFP economies in Amazonia. In the Peruvian Amazon it is organized...