the increasing demand for rice in ghana has been a major concern to the government and other stakeholders. recent concerns by the coalition for african rice development (card) to double rice production within ten years in sub-saharan countries have triggered the to implement strategies to boost rice production in the government. to fulfill this requirement, there is a need to monitor and foreca...

background: determining the temporal variation and forecasting the incidence of smear positive tuberculosis (tb) can play an important role in promoting the tb control program. its results may be used as a decision-supportive tool for planning and allocating resources. the present study forecasts the incidence of smear positive tb in iran. methods: this a longitudinal study using monthly tuberc...

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This paper consists in a preliminary study as part of PIDOP (Processes Influencing Democratic Ownership and Participation), project involving eight European countries (Portugal, Germany, Turkey, Czech Republic, Sweden, Italy, Belgium and United Kingdom). The main goal of the study is to provide an understanding of civic and political participation of young people in Portugal. The concept of “po...

For any non-compact Riemannian manifold M of dimension n ≥ 2 we previously defined a function λM : M×M → R+ = R+∪{+∞] only dependent on the conformal structure of M , and proved that for a class of manifolds containing all the proper subdomains of R, λ 1 n M was a distance on M [F1, F2]. The case of a domain G of R has been the object of several investigations leading to estimations of λG[V1, ....

Two experiments explore the effects of mood on category learning. In the first experiment subjects were put into either a negative or a neutral mood before completing one of two category-learning tasks. Negative mood briefly impaired rulebased category learning but this impairment did not persist throughout the task. Negative mood did not influence nonrule-based learning. In a second study subj...

This paper proposes an auxiliary model based hierarchical least squares algorithm for multivariable Box-Jenkins-like systems using the hierarchical identification principle. To improve the computational efficiency, a multivariable system is decomposed into two subsystems by using the data filtering technique. Furthermore, this paper presents a data filtering based auxiliary model hierarchical l...

While some college lead e rs ’ sa laries a re climbing into the millions of dollars , the total c o m p e n s a t i o n fo r N o t r e D a m e ’s p r e s i d e n t w a s la s t r eg is te red a t ju s t $476,325. W h a t e v e r t h e s u m , in U niversity P re s id en t F a th e r Jo h n J e n k in s ’ c a se , i t ’s his r e l i g i o u s o r d e r — t h e I n d i a n a P r o v in c e of th ...