Value-added (VA) technologies can help farmers in the specialty crops industry generate new products, increase off-season income sources, expand market access, and improve overall profitability. The United States Department of Agriculture defines VA agricultural products as those that have been changed physically or produced a manner enhances their value. Drawing from this definition, we invest...

We propose and evaluate an admission control paradigm for RTDBS, in which a transaction is submitted to the system as a pair of processes: a primary task, and a recovery block. The execution requirements of the primary task are not known a priori, whereas those of the recovery block are known a priori. Upon the submission of a transaction, an Admission Control Mechanism is employed to decide wh...

In power systems, energy storage effectively improves the reliability of the system and smooths out the fluctuations of intermittent energy. However, the installed capacity value of energy storage cannot effectively measure the contribution of energy storage to the generator adequacy of power systems. To achieve a variety of purposes, several control strategies may be utilized in energy storage...

Given the growing need for managing financial risk, risk prediction plays an increasing role in banking and finance. In this study, we compare the out-of-sample performance of existing methods and some new models for predicting Value-at-Risk. Using more than 30 years of the daily return data on the NASDAQ Composite Index, we find that most approaches perform inadequately, although several model...

• We identified teaching strategies to promote value-loaded critical thinking in classroom discussions. Three categories of were found: for addressing, applying and arguing about moral values. Teachers also employed transfer-oriented strategies, but no metacognitive reflection. An important aim education is that students learn think critically In this exploratory multiple case study, we analyze...