Intensive tillage-based production systems coupled with inefficient fertilizer management practices have led to increased costs, sub-optimal productivity, and significant environmental externalities. Conservation agriculture (CA) is being increasingly advocated as a strategy overcome these issues but precision nutrient under the CA-based maize-wheat system rarely studied. Two year’s (2014–2015 ...

BACKGROUND Trauma is the leading cause of loss of life expectancy worldwide. In the most seriously injured patients, coagulopathy is often present on admission. Therefore, transfusion strategies to increase the ratio of plasma (FFP) and platelets (PLT) to red blood cells (RBC), simulating whole blood, have been introduced. Several studies report that higher ratios improve survival in massively ...

An integral temperature sensor based on Brillouin laser ring that is feed by a Fourier Domain mode-locking (FDML) laser is here proposed. The source FDML laser ring emits at 1532 nm within a range of 5 nm. The working wavelength is given by tuning the offset voltage applied to a Fabry-Perot tunable filter (FFP-TF). In the present work, the FDML laser linewidth is set at 0.136 nm. This linewidth...

To establish the estimation models, the linear regression technique is used to analyze the historical data. This technique is also applied in combination with logarithm transformation of the collected data. Our results show that the correlation coefficients (or R) between size (FFP) and real effort and size (FFP) and cost are 89% and 88% respectively. With logarithm transformation, the correlat...

BACKGROUND Fluid overload, including transfusion-associated circulatory overload (TACO), is a serious complication of fresh frozen plasma (FFP) transfusion. The incidence of fluid overload is underreported and its economic impact is unknown. An evaluation of fluid overload cases in US hospitals was performed to assess the impact of fluid overload on length and cost of hospital stay. STUDY DES...

OBJECTIVES To estimate the appropriateness of transfusions of platelets, fresh frozen plasma (FFP) and cryoprecipitate using National Health and Medical Research Council and Australasian Society for Blood Transfusion guidelines (NHMRC/ASBT 2002). DESIGN AND SETTING Three separate retrospective surveys of medical records from 1 January to 31 August 2000 (1147 transfused patients) from 14 hospi...

For comparison of whole-genome (genic + nongenic) sequences, multiple sequence alignment of a few selected genes is not appropriate. One approach is to use an alignment-free method in which feature (or l-mer) frequency profiles (FFP) of whole genomes are used for comparison-a variation of a text or book comparison method, using word frequency profiles. In this approach it is critical to identif...

Does it really require those umpteen yardsticks to assess the software size before one can plan for the software build? The obvious answer to the question fortifies the argument whilst the assessment process complexity presents colossal challenges to estimation process; it is the identification of the “right yardstick” which merits much of the required deliberation. Today, IT industry has certa...