Information and Communication technologies (ICT) have been used to deliver knowledge to support agriculture and rural livelihood (ARL) for over ten years now. Yet, in India today, use of ICT to support ARL remains at an early stage. Our survey in North Indian states shows that less than 10% of the Krishi Vigyan Kendras (Agricultural Science Centers) and other extension initiatives actively “use...

BACKGROUND Comparative study between the level of discomfort and the acoustic reflex in workers. AIM To observe the hearing behavior, through the assessment of the contraction activity of the stapedius muscle and the level of discomfort, of individuals who are and are not exposed to occupational noise, with the aim of identifying the influence of noise in the behavior of the contraction of th...

The ADP-ribosylation factor (ARF) family is one of four subfamilies of the RAS superfamily of low molecular weight GTP-binding proteins (G proteins). Highly degenerate oligonucleotides encoding two conserved regions were used in a PCR reaction to amplify cDNAs encoding each of the known ARF proteins and eight additional cDNA fragments encoding previously unreported human members of the ARF fami...

Acoustic Reflex Latency (ARL) is the time interval between onset of an intense auditory stimulus and onset of middle-ear muscle contraction. Unlike pure tone audiogram, the usual procedure to detect middle ear disorders and conductive hearing loss, ARL can differentiate between cochlear and retrocochlear pathologies, yields information about the nature of the conductive disorder, can detect mil...

Among the many statistical process control charts, modified exponentially weighted moving average (EWMA) chart has been designed to swiftly detect a small shift in parameter. Herein, we propose two explicit formulas for run length (ARL) integrated (IMA) and fractional (FIMA) models combined with EWMA time series prediction. The application of suggested procedures depends on residuals IMA FIMA m...

While providing the resources and tools that make advanced research possible is a primary mission of academic libraries at large research universities, many other elements also contribute to the success of the research enterprise, such as institutional funding, staffing, labs, and equipment. This study focuses on U.S. members of the Association for Research Libraries (ARL). Research success is ...

Primary T-cell non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL) occurring in the context of acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) is uncommon. Here, we report and discuss such a case presenting in the rectum, and review relevant literature. Although typical in some respects, the case is, in other ways, somewhat unusual for an AIDS-related NHL (ARL); ARL tends to be B cell and advanced stage and our case was T...

Introduction This paper looks at the possible evolutionary paths that the current printed scholarly monograph may take, paying particular attention to the ways in which technical, economic, and cultural factors may shape this evolution. It does not predict the demise of today's printed scholarly monograph, but suggests that it will coexist with a series of successors that will offer new points ...

Light shelves provide a function to control direct sunlight and introduce daylight into indoor spaces. Also, chilled water flowing in the light shelf can mitigate local cooling demands perimeter zones. Therefore, this study, thermally activated (TALS) system was proposed, TALS’s radiative capacity evaluated. To do this, mock-up chamber developed using prototypes of TALS systems based on panel c...

Procedural representations of control policies have two advantages when facing the scale-up problem in learning tasks. First they are implicit, with potential for inductive generalization over a very large set of situations. Second they facilitate modularization. In this paper we compare several randomized algorithms for learning modular procedural representations. The main algorithm, called Ad...