Consultants, farm advisors, resource conservationists, and other land managers may benefit from decision tools that help identify the most sustainable management practices. Indices of soil quality (SQIs) can provide this service. Various methods were tested for choosing a minimum data set (MDS), transforming the indicators, and calculating indices using data from alternative vegetable productio...

A respiratory and cardiac self-gated free-breathing three-dimensional cine steady-state free precession imaging method using multiecho hybrid radial sampling is presented. Cartesian mapping of the k-space center along the slice encoding direction provides intensity-weighted position information, from which both respiratory and cardiac motions are derived. With in plan radial sampling acquired a...

Continuous time-series of CO2, water, and energy fluxes are useful for evaluating the impacts climate-change management on ecosystems. The eddy covariance (EC) technique can provide continuous, direct measurements ecosystem fluxes, but to achieve this gaps in data must be filled. Research-standard methods gap-filling have tended focus CO2 temperate forests relatively short less than two weeks. ...

Myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) are clonal stem cell disorders that primarily affect older persons and are associated with peripheral blood cytopenias, increased risk of conversion to acute myeloid leukemia and shortened survival. Treatment strategies in MDS are guided by patient risk categories, with higher-risk patients receiving more aggressive interventions. Patients with lower-risk MDS rec...

Therapy-related myelodysplasia or acute myeloid leukemia (t-MDS/AML) is a major cause of non-relapse mortality in patients treated for Hodgkin lymphoma (HL) or non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL). t-MDS/AML is associated with exposure to alkylating agents and topoisomerase II inhibitors. The DNA-damaging events caused by these agents initiate apoptosis required for antineoplastic activity; occasionally,...

Skip-lot sampling plans have been widely used in industries to reduce the inspection efforts when products have good quality records. These schemes are known as economically advantageous and useful to minimize the cost of the inspection of the final lots. A new system of skip-lot sampling plan called SkSP-R is proposed in this paper. The performance measures for the proposed SkSP-R plan are der...

This paper presents the procedure for the construction and selection of mixed sampling plan (MSP) using Intervened Random effect Poisson Distribution (IRPD) as a baseline distribution. The plans are constructed through limiting quality level (LQL) and maximum allowable percent defective (MAPD) having the single sampling plan as attribute plan,. Tables are constructed for easy selection of the p...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the peripheral factors on reducing the consequences of the targeted subsidies from the view point of greenhouse owners of Semnan Province, Iran. The population of the study comprised greenhouse owners of Semnan Province. The sample size was calculated using Cochran formula and encompassed a number of 287 greenhouse owners. The main research tool used...