the purpose of this study is determining the factors affecting timeliness of machine operation at different stages of sugar beet production. farm-level data were collected from a sample of 227 sugar beet farmer located in three major districts of farsprovince ofiran: eghleed, marvdasht and fasa, selected by a random sampling method during 2006. for this purpose, the probit model was used. the r...

Submit Manuscript | http://medcraveonline.com consists of functional, high intensity and constantly varied movements [1]. It is a highly competitive sport, having several formats of competitions: The internal competitions, carried out by the box itself for the enrolled students; National competitions, usually organized by companies that support the sport; regional competitions, known as CrossFi...

Stochastic resonance in a coupled FitzHugh-Nagumo equation with a propagational time delay is investigated. With an appropriate set of parameter values. i.e. the frequency of the periodic input, the propagational time delay, and the coupling strength, a deterministic firing induced by additive noise is observed, and its dependence on the number of neurons is examined. It is also found that a ne...

The enantioselective binding of the (SSS)-Δ isomer of an yttrium(III) tetraazatriphenylene complex to 'drug-site II' of human serum albumin (HSA) was detected by the intensity differences of its STD (1)H NMR spectrum relative to the (RRR)-Λ isomer, by the effect of the competitive binder to that site, N-dansyl sarcosine, upon the STD spectrum of each isomer, in the presence of HSA and by 3D doc...

Introduction In recent years, the heightened intensity of retail competition has drastically changed the way distribution companies operate their distribution systems. These changes include the application of the integrated logistics management concept to the analysis and design of their supply chains and, what is most important, extensive use of information technology to gain a competitive edg...

We study the competitive structure of a market where firms compete to provide various products within a bundle. Firms adopt price functions proportional to their per-unit costs by selecting markups. We consider two measures reflecting, respectively, the intensity of direct competition and the impact of complementarity on each producer’s markup. We characterize the sensitivity of these terms to ...

As basic parameters in speech processing we regard pitch, duration, intensity, voice quality, signal to noise ratio, voice activity detection and strength of Lombard effect. Taking in account also adverse conditions the performance of many published algorithms to extract those parameters from the speech signal automatically is not known. A framework based on competitive evaluation is proposed t...

This paper studies optimal pay-as-you-go social security with positive bequests and endogenous fertility. With an investment externality, a competitive solution without social security suffers from under-investment in capital and over-reproduction of population. We show that social security can improve welfare by reducing fertility and increasing capital intensity. We also illustrate numericall...

To develop a business and plan for the future, there is a need to assess the current situation. One way of doing this is to use Porter's five forces framework. This was the brainchild of Harvard Business School's Michael Porter and developed in 1979. Looking at the competitive intensity of an industry, the model assesses internal and external factors that act together to determine the direction...