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in this study, the disadvantages of wood, which is widely employed in producing music instruments, are discussed. for example, high moisture sensitivity, low impact resistance, and time-consuming procedure as well as various properties of different species or in several parts of one specimen which are the main problems of wooden music instruments are extensively discussed in this paper. many ma...

Living Pesticide use is regulated wlthm a complex legal framework that mchrdes the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodentlclde Act; the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic ACC and other environmental laws. The framework includes nsk-benefit rules for some decisions that permit full consideration of comparative performance, cost, and risks of a pest]cide and Its alternatives before decls]ons to...

Many decision making problems involve choosing a preferred option amongst a large number of alternatives, which are structured in terms of a number of variables, with each alternative associating a value with each variable. The set of possible alternatives may be defined implicitly, as the (typically exponentially large) set of solutions of a Constraint Satisfaction Problem; or explicitly as a ...

In this article, we review some of the most provocative experimental results to have emerged from comparative labs in the past few years, starting with research focusing on contingency learning and finishing with experiments exploring nonhuman animals' understanding of causal-logical relations. Although the theoretical explanation for these results is often inchoate, a clear pattern nevertheles...

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