1Principal Entomologist and Project Leader (retired), Forestry Sciences Laboratory, USDA Forest Service, Moscow, ID; 2Forest Entomologist, USDA Forest Service, Forest Health Protection, Northern Region, Coeur d’Alene, ID. Douglas-fir beetle galleries are distinctive, having eggs laid individually in niches alternating on opposite sides of the gallery. The Douglas-fir beetle (Dendroctonus pseudo...

Quantitative analysis of production through evaluation of inputs consumption quantity is of main principles in agricultural policies, which is followed by increasing in production through optimal use of resources. This study has been conducted to estimate different types of production functions in mechanized farms of broiler chicks located in Gorgan city. Cross-section survey data were gathered...

Feature matching is very important in image stitching. RANSAC algorithm a representative for feature matching. However, still has many shortcomings such as large number of iterations, computational complexity and cannot completely eliminate mismatches. To address above problem, this paper, we propose novel method termed constant elasticity substitution function based (CES-RANSAC) Specifically, ...

There is broad consensus that withholding or withdrawing medical interventions is morally permissible when requested by competent patients or, in the case of patients without decision-making capacity, when the interventions no longer confer a benefit to the patient or when the burdens associated with the interventions outweigh the benefits received. The withdrawal or withholding of measures suc...

We show that L°°/A is not the dual space of any Banach space when A is a Douglas algebra of a certain type. We do this by showing its unit ball has no extreme points. The method used requires that any function in L°° has a nonunique best approximation in A. We therefore also show that the Douglas algebra Hx + Lf, when F is an open subset of the unit circle, permits best approximation. We use a ...