We provide a multi-factor real option model for a single harvest and then for perpetual forest harvesting, which extends the Faustmann (1849) approach to infinite rotations with multi-factor uncertainty. We examine separately forest growth and timber prices (and eventually credits/penalties for CO2 uptake/release upon harvest), so the forester can focus on critical exogenous and partially endog...

We present a pre/post intervention study, where HARVEST, a general-purpose patient record summarization tool, was introduced to ten data abstraction specialists. The specialists are responsible for reviewing hundreds of patient charts each month and reporting disease-specific quality metrics to a variety of online registries and databases. We qualitatively and quantitatively investigated whethe...

The moisture coutent of cotton at time of l~arvest has a dirwt effect 011 cotton quality. Weather, in particular relative humidity, strongly inHllences variation in cott,on moisture content. This paper sur~lmarizes three years of obsrrvatiorls of n-cather in and around cotton fields at harvest time in the hhsissippi Delta. Detailed studies of t,hc variation of relative humidity, tc~mpcrature, w...

the effect of ca, zn and b foliar application (five g l-1) and their mixed applications as well as two harvest dates (1st and 15st of august) on ppo activity of two commercial asian pears (‘ks’9 and ‘ks’13) fruits at the time of harvest and during storage were investigated. results showed that the ppo activity increased from harvest time to three months after storage and then decreased. during ...

Human harvest of phenotypically desirable animals from wild populations imposes selection that can reduce the frequencies of those desirable phenotypes. Hunting and fishing contrast with agricultural and aquacultural practices in which the most desirable animals are typically bred with the specific goal of increasing the frequency of desirable phenotypes. We consider the potential effects of ha...

BACKGROUND Current recommendations regarding posthumous sperm retrieval (PSR) are based on a small number of cases. Our purpose was to determine the time interval from death to a successful procedure. METHODS Seventeen consecutive PSR procedures in 14 deceased and 3 neurologically brain-dead patients at two male infertility centres [Sheba Medical Center (SMC), Tel-Hashomer, Israel and Univers...