This paper examines the relationship between firms’ wage offers and workers’ supply of effort using a three-period experiment. In equilibrium, firms will offer deferred compensation: first period productivity is positive and wages are zero, while third period productivity is zero and wages are positive. The experiment produces strong evidence that deferred compensation increases worker effort; ...

The object of this study was evaluation of a walking tractor drawn peanut harvester at different conditions of soil moisture content and forward speed and comparing it with manual harvesting. The evaluation factors for peanut harvester were two levels of soil moisture content and three levels of forward speed. The results revealed that the effect of soil moisture content was only significant on...

Ochratoxin A (OTA) is the main mycotoxin occurring in cocoa. A study was conducted in Cameroon to assess how filamentous fungi and toxigenesis were affected by the type of cocoa post-harvest treatment (boxes or heaps). The filamentous fungi isolated were almost identical when fermentation was carried out in boxes or heaps, with the presence of abundant black Aspergillus filamentous fungi: A. ni...

BACKGROUND To ensure an adequate and safe blood supply, it is crucial to select suitable donors according to stringent eligibility criteria. Understanding the reasons for donor deferral can help in planning more efficient recruitment strategies and evaluating donor selection criteria. This study aims to define donor pre-donation deferral rates, causes of deferral, and characteristics of deferre...

Several commercial distributed database systems provide an optional protocol that defers updates of replicas in order to attain higher transaction throughput. Each replicated data item is assigned a primary copy site, and has a set of sites with secondary copies. Typically, in a deferred update protocol, a transaction directly updates only the primary copy of each data item it modiies. After th...

In the recently developed Krylov deferred correction (KDC) methods for ordinary differential equation initial value problems [11], a Picard-type collocation formulation is preconditioned using low-order time integration schemes based on spectral deferred correction (SDC), and the resulting system is solved efficiently using a Newton-Krylov method. Existing analyses show that these KDC methods a...