BACKGROUND Elicitation, which is a way of inducing plant secondary metabolism, may be an effective method for improving the quality of plant food. The aim of this study was to determine how the application of jasmonic acid (as an abiotic elicitor) and yeast extract (as a biotic elicitor) influences the production of some bioactive compounds in marjoram and the antioxidant activity of this herb....

In this article, we discuss decision making involving multiple objectives (MCDA) and especially the lack of more prescriptively useful elicitation methods for weights within MCDA. We highlight the discrepancy between how elicitation is handled in current decision analysis applications and the abilities of real decision-makers to provide what is required from them. Based on theory and highlighte...

The article presents a data analysis and processing for tuning artificial neural network (ANN) of the anthrop technical system reliability, based on the opinions of experts. In general, the system reliability parameters are functions of operands – physical values – like time to failure, time between failures, duration times of specific reliability or operational states, number of failures in a ...

This study investigates the effect of four types of oral corrective feedback, namely, explicit elicitation, implicit elicitation, explicit recast and implicit recast on the most commonly mispronounced phonological features among Iranian EFL learners through immediate uptake and retention. Five classes were randomly categorized into four experimental groups and one control group, each with 18 in...

Dose–response profiles for both induction and elicitation phases were evaluated with seven chemical allergens using the guinea pig maximization test. Considering the risk assessment of contact sensitization in its practical sense, the profile of elicitation would be more critical than that of induction, and it should be evaluated in a maximally induced human population or experimental animals. ...

Wind energy has experienced accelerated cost reduction over the past five years—far greater than predicted in a 2015 expert elicitation. Here we report results from new survey on wind costs, compare those with previous and discuss accuracy of earlier predictions. We show that experts 2020 expect future onshore offshore costs to decline 37–49% by 2050, resulting 50% lower 2015. This is due reduc...

S. rebaudiana produces steviol glycosides including stevioside and rebaudioside A that are valuable as low calorie sweeteners. The objective of this study was to investigate the effects of salicylic acid elicitation and sampling times on the improvment of stevioside and rebaudioside A production and KA13H, UGT74G1 and UGT76G1 genes expression. The results showed that the addition of different c...

In current practice, business processes modeling is done by trained method experts. Domain experts are interviewed to elicit their process information but not involved in modeling. We created a haptic toolkit for process modeling that can be used in process elicitation sessions with domain experts. We hypothesize that this leads to more effective process elicitation. This paper brakes down ”eff...