Abstract Information does not flow freely through social networks. We use an experiment to study knowledge diffusion about innovation (integrated pest management, IPM) in farmer groups Ethiopia. Group leaders are incentivized share with members the conditional provision of material or prestige rewards. combine incentives loss‐framed messaging leverage loss aversion. Incentives increase effort, ...

in this paper, to simulate mechanical stress on the cutter bar of the harvesting combine during cutting of wheat stems, first, shearing strength of the stems was measured for various moisture content levels and cutting heights. after that the cutter bar of combine was simulated by abaqus with the specified conditions. the results of the simulation showed that with increase in moisture content o...

In this work, we conduct a comparative study among the combine Laplace transform and modied Adomian decomposition method (LMADM) and two traditional methods for an analytic and approximate treatment of special type of nonlinear Volterra integro-differential equations of the second kind. The nonlinear part of integro-differential is approximated by Adomian polynomials, and the equation is reduce...

Single features such as line orientation and length are known to guide visual search, but relatively little is known about how multiple features combine in search. To address this question, we investigated how search for targets differing in multiple features (intensity, length, orientation) from the distracters is related to searches for targets differing in each of the individual features. We...

Coordination languages simplify design and development of concurrent systems. Particularly, exogenous coordination languages, like BIP and Reo, enable system designers to express the interactions among components in a system explicitly. A formal relation between exogenous coordination languages comprises the basis for a solid comparison and consolidation of their fundamental concepts. In this p...

The performance of a CMAC neural network depends on the training algorithms and the selection of input points. Papers have been published that explain CMAC algorithms but little work has been done to improve existing algorithms. In this paper, the existing algorithms are first explained and then compared using computational results and the algorithm properties. Improvements are made to the reco...

www.thelancet.com Published online May 15, 2013 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(13)60984-8 1 Some therapies licensed to treat osteoporosis work by inhibiting bone turnover (anticatabolic agents) and some by stimulating bone formation (anabolic agents). In The Lancet, Joy Tsai and colleagues report an exciting new approach in which an anticatabolic drug, denosumab, is combined with an anabo...

carcass yield is important economical parameters for producers and contributors of meat science. in the present study, carcass yield and also the weight losses resulted post mortem until consumption were investigated. the mean values of cold carcass and hot carcass weight were 15.63 and 15.33, the mean value of cooling loss was 1.87% and average value of hot and cold efficiency were 41.44% and ...

We consider image transformation problems, where an input image is transformed into an output image. Recent methods for such problems typically train feed-forward convolutional neural networks using a per-pixel loss between the output and ground-truth images. Parallel work has shown that high-quality images can be generated by defining and optimizing perceptual loss functions based on high-leve...