Abstract The growth of small-scale Peruvian farmers is highly dependent on cocoa factor productivity. Agricultural extension programs can help to improve farm productivity using available resources. Thus, the objective this study estimate farming and identify if frequent technical assistance impacts farmers’ efficiency. data came from a survey 379 in Tocache, San Martin (177 producers who sell ...

This paper presents a German corpus for Named Entity Linking (NEL) and Knowledge Base Population (KBP) tasks. We describe the annotation guideline, the annotation process, NIL clustering techniques and conversion to popular NEL formats such as NIF and TAC that have been used to construct this corpus based on news transcripts from the German regional broadcaster RBB (Rundfunk Berlin Brandenburg)...

This paper lays the foundations for the development of a Tangible User Interface Management System (TUIMS). It presents a paradigm for representing TUIs, the TAC paradigm, which identifies the core components of TUIs. Building upon the TAC paradigm, it introduces TUIML, a high-level description language for TUIs. The concept of TUIMS is proposed and a built proof of concept prototype is discussed.

Provision of technical assistance is a common form of support to health sectors emerging from prolonged conflicts. But what actions signal that the Ministry of Health (MoH) is, or is not, actively analysing and digesting the output of this assistance? Where are the boundaries between doing with and doing for? This article presents a qualitative description of an early post-conflict policy proce...

Supply chains are a central element of today’s global economy. Existing management practices consist primarily of static interactions between established partners. Global competition, shorter product life cycles and the emergence of Internet-mediated business solutions create an incentive for exploring more dynamic supply chain practices. The Supply Chain Trading Agent Competition (TAC SCM) was...

The requirements of modern advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) imply not only technical challenges but also create the need of a human centered development approach, which is necessary to create a unique and useful assistance. A human centered approach itself has high requirements for the technical systems in use, flexible functional development is necessary, features and concepts change ...

The SAMHSA-HRSA Center for Integrated Health Solutions (CIHS) promotes the development of integrated primary and behavioral health services to better address the needs of individuals with mental health and substance use conditions, whether seen in specialty behavioral health or primary care provider settings. CIHS is the first " national home " for information, experts, and other resources dedi...