A neuroblastic-like cell line (NUB-20) was derived from a case of histopathologically diagnosed metastatic neuroblastoma. The metastatic tumor and nude mouse heterotransplant resembled neuroblastoma by histological criteria, in contrast to the primary tumor, which was differentially classified as Ewing's sarcoma. However, the cell line demonstrated a unique phenotype in culture with respect to ...

Much has been written on the determinants of input and technology adoption in agriculture, with issues such as input availability, knowledge and education, risk preferences, profitability, and credit constraints receiving much attention. This paper focuses on a factor that has been less well documented: the differential ability of households to take on risky production technologies for fear of ...

The author introduces the main content of the research on the GIS-based regional agricultural analysis system of competitive industries, including the significance, the main contents and the implementation methods of the research, focusing on the classification of agricultural economic indicators for regional competitive industries, on the realization of regional choice based on GIS, and on the...

Purpose This paper aims to identify and analyze the agtech classification categorization systems in Brazilian context. Design/methodology/approach The systematic literature review (SLR) was carried out according protocol of Kitchenham Charters (2007). found were evaluated using thinking aloud protocol, as proposed by Ericsson Simon (1993). responses obtained through lexicographic analysis, desc...

This research investigates the various RADARSAT-2 polarimetric SAR features for urban land cover classification using object-based method combining with support vector machine (SVM) and ruled-based approach. Six-dates of RADARSAT-2 fine-beam polarimetric SAR data were acquired in the rural-urban fringe of Greater Toronto Area during June to September, 2008. The major landuse/land-cover classes ...

This paper uses a unique data-set collected in a consistent way over a number of different auctions to investigate how empirical regularities in sequential auctions depend on the number of lots sold in those auctions. It is shown that prices tend to decline faster in auctions in which a small number of lots were sold. Starting prices tend to be higher in auctions with fewer lots, while average ...

Analyzing Cost Efficient Production Behavior Under Economies of Scope: A Nonparametric Methodology In designing a production model for firms that generate multiple outputs, we take as a starting point that such multi-output production refers to economies of scope, which in turn originate from joint input use and input externalities. We provide a nonparametric characterization of cost efficient ...