the purpose of this descriptive-correlational study was to analyze farmers' attitude toward new agricultural knowledge in mehreiz and khatam townships. the statistical population for the study consisted of the farmers of mehreiz and khatam township (n=22618). a multistage sample of farmers was selected (n=281). based on the findings, the use of specialized publications and the recommendati...

Multimedia applications are demanding features for many digital systems including portable devices. Multimedia extension can be incorporated into a general-purpose processor's instruction set architecture to speed up the execution of multimedia applications. Two multimedia compression standards namely Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG) and Moving Pictures Experts Group (MPEG) are chosen to...

OBJECTIVE For many applied problems in the context of medically relevant artificial intelligence, the data collected exhibit a hierarchical or clustered structure. Ignoring the interdependence between hierarchical data can result in misleading classification. In this paper, we extend the mechanism for mixture-of-experts (ME) networks for binary classification of hierarchical data. Another exten...

criticism of public extension services has resulted in various countries seeking alternative approaches for provision of these services. in all these approaches, extension personnel are the key factors to the success of the implementation. today, agricultural extension services in turkey bear the responsibility of the ministry of food, agriculture and livestock. a number of non-public extension...

We propose a Spatio-Temporal Extended Event Language (STEEL) for representing and reasoning about events that are described in outbreak reports. This language is an extension of the Event Calculus based on mereotopological relationships and structured conglomeration of events, in which time is replaced with spatiotemporal location. It allows representing and building aggregates of events accord...

To represent knowledge in a context of several experts, it is interesting to model the multiple perspectives that different experts may have on the objects handled in their reasoning. The concept of a particular perspective called viewpoint, is already used in the field of object oriented representation or in the field of databases conception. Taking inspiration of research made in object orien...

Agricultural products have a main role in nonoil exports. Pistachio is one of the country's mostimportant export products. Thus, this study is aimed at evaluating and identifying pistachiomarketing in Rafsanjan which is carried out in 2011. This is applied study and its methodology iscorrelation. The statistical population was 120 agricultural extension experts of Rafsanjantownship were studied...