Government agricultural programs have a variety of goals, among them is preserving the family farm (U.S. Department of Agriculture 2003, pp. 18–20). While no single program is dedicated to maintaining a certain type of farm structure, program features are sometimes designed so as not to disadvantage family farms. For example, dollar limits may be placed on payments that a single person can rece...

We developed a single-equation decomposed negative binomial regression model (NBRM) of the U.S. farm sector to simultaneously evaluate structural changes in the U.S. agricultural sector and the strength of several economic forces that influenced the changes in farm structure during the 1960–96 period. We found all these forces reinforced economic incentives to increase the size and decrease the...

The Dixit entry/exit real option model was applied to the entry/exit decisions of New York dairy farmers. For the cost structure of a 500-cow farm the entry milk price is $17.52 per hundredweight (cwt.) and the exit milk price is $10.84. For the 50-cow farm cost structure the entry price is higher at $23.71 per cwt., and the exit price is also higher at $13.48. If infinite numbers of representa...

The need for automatic testing of large-scale web applications suggests the use of model-based testing technology. Among various modeling languages, UML is widely spread and used for its simplicity, understandability and ease of use. But rigorous analysis for UML model is difficult due to its lack of precise semantics. On the other hand, as a formal notation, FSM provides an avenue for automati...

* This work was supported by Chinese National Key Project funds under the grants 96-738-01-01-07. Abstract: In this paper, we defined a new FSM model that based on the synchronous behavior and symbolic representation technique. The algorithm to elaborate the model from the VHDL description of synchronous circuits is presented. By eliminating the unnesessary transition function, our model has mu...

In this paper, we propose two fault models and methods for the derivation of interoperability test suites when the system implementation is given in the form of two deterministic communicating finite state machines. A test suite returned by the first method enables us to determine if the implementation is free of livelocks. If the implementation is free of livelocks, the second method returns a...

The paper deals with designing finite state machines (FSM) by Nano PLA structures. Due to the devicemissing domination in nano-structures, it is desired to minimize both the area and the number of PLA devices required for the FSM implementation. We propose a solution of the minimization problem. Our solution is based on: a) partition of the FSM for two interacting components; b) transformation ...

Clock-gating techniques are very effective in the reduction of the switching activity in sequential logic circuits. In this paper, we describe a clock-gating technique based on finite-state machine (FSM) decomposition. The approach is based on the computation of two sub-FSMs that together have the same functionality as the original FSM. For all the transitions within one sub-FSM, the clock for ...

In this study we evaluated the effects of soy products on ethanol metabolism during periods of acute and chronic consumption in rats. Gastric ethanol content and blood ethanol and acetaldehyde concentrations were investigated after the oral administration of ethanol (34 mmol/kg) plus soy products such as soymilk (SM) or fermented soymilk (FSM). The gastric ethanol concentration of the FSM group...