Crop management can be defined as the set of agricultural operations that produce the crop. Soil and water science experts, plant pathologists, entomologists, agricultural scientists, and breeders all contribute to these operations. Soil and water conservation are also important factors in crop management. It is important that reliable methods of crop management be transferred to growers in an ...

In this paper, we present Committee, a new multi-class learning algorithm related to the Winnow family of algorithms. Committee is an algorithm for combining the predictions of a set of sub-experts in the online mistake-bounded model of learning. A sub-expert is a special type of attribute that predicts with a distribution over a finite number of classes. Committee learns a linear function of s...

Browser extensions are remarkably popular, with one in three Firefox users running at least one extension. Although well-intentioned, extension developers are often not security experts and write buggy code that can be exploited by malicious web site operators. In the Firefox extension system, these exploits are dangerous because extensions run with the user’s full privileges and can read and w...

BACKGROUND The conduct of randomized, controlled trials of nonpharmacologic treatments presents specific challenges that are not adequately addressed in trial reports. OBJECTIVE To develop an extension of the CONSORT (Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials) Statement for trials of nonpharmacologic treatments. DESIGN A consensus meeting was organized to develop an extension of the CONSOR...

this study provides a framework and definition to the notion of talent management process and describes how it fits the human resources architecture of agricultural higher education system in iran. this qualitative study was conducted using semi-structured interviews for data collection and systematic grounded theory methods for data analysis. for this study, we selected and interviewed 15 expe...

Health extension programs represent an opportunity for practice-based research networks (PBRNs) and primary care practices to develop collaborations reaching beyond the clinic walls to address the upstream social determinants of health and engage in community-based research. The Health Extension Regional Officers (HEROs) program at the University of New Mexico described in this issue of the JAB...

The purpose of this study was analyzing perception of agricultural college experts and managers of Islamic Azad University Shoushtar Branch regarding development of knowledge management. Agricultural college experts and managers were considered as a statistical population (N=38). This research was conducted in June 2012 to April 2013. All individuals were investigated. After confirm the validit...