agricultural production is influenced by different political, economic and environmental factors. various factors influence production, affecting the income of farmers and even in some cases increasing their vulnerability. continuation and expansion of economic activity in this sector requires appropriate risk management policies to be promptly and appropriately applied. one of the oldest strat...

Brand extension typically has two strategies: brand name extension (BN) and brand logo extension (BL). The current study explored which strategy (BN or BL) better enhanced the success of dissimilar brand extension and product promotion in enterprises. Event-related potentials (ERPs) were used to investigate electrophysiological processes when subjects evaluated their acceptance of the brand ext...

Component-based software architectures are increasingly being adopted as solutions for various software engineering problems. We describe a component-based software architecture and its supporting CASE tool we have been developing. Our tool supports both static and dynamic visualisation of component-based systems, together with end-user configuration of such systems by user extension of these v...

An extension of the traditional color-based visual tracker, i.e., the continuously adaptive mean shift tracker, is given for improving the convenience and generality of the color-based tracker. This is achieved by introducing a probability density function for pixels based on the hue histogram of object. As its merits, the direction and size of the tracked object are easily derived by the princ...

Superpositions are useful relationships between programs or components in component based approaches to software development. We study the application of invasive superposition morphisms between components in the architecture design language CommUnity. This kind of morphism allows us to characterise component extension relationships, and in particular, serves an important purpose for enhancing ...

A timed extension to DILL (DIgital Logic in LOTOS) is discussed. The extension is based on ETLOTOS (Enhanced Timed LOTOS) and is used to specify timed digital logic. The approach places timing properties in two categories: timing constraints and delays. A parallel-serial model is used to form a timed specification by composing the functionality of a digital component with timing constraints and...

We propose a novel model selection method for a nonparametric extension of the Cox proportional hazard model, in the framework of smoothing splines ANOVA models. The method automates the model building and model selection process simultaneously by imposing a penalty on the norms instead of squared norms. It is a natural extension of the LASSO to the situation where component selection is of int...

this research was based on primary data collected through well designed and pre-tested questionnaire, to determine awareness of farmers on extension methods used by adp in kano state of nigeria. multistage sampling technique was used, in which three local governments were randomly selected. secondly, three wards one each from the selected local governments (danbatta, gaya and madobi) were rando...