Zinc (Zn) de®ciency is a critical nutritional problem for plants and humans in Turkey. About 14 Mha of cropped land in Turkey are known to be Zn de®cient, particularly cereal growing areas of Anatolia. In 1993, a joint research project was started in Turkey with the ®nancial support of the NATO-Science for Stability Programme to select and characterize cereal genotypes with high yield and/or hi...

Plan library's have proven their added value to the e ciency of planning. In this paper, we present results on the use of a plan library to plan repair. We show that using a relatively simple library, we can already obtain signi cant improvements in e ciency compared to plan repair without a library.

We examine a general equilibrium model with asymetrically informed agents. The presence of asymmetric information generally presents a con°ict between incentive compatibility and Pareto e±ciency. We present a notion of informational size and show that the con°ict between incentive compatibility and e±ciency can be made arbitrarily small if agents are su±ciently small informationally .

The response uniformity of a 90]290 cm2 RPC prototype working in avalanche mode has been tested using cosmic rays. The high statistics needed for the test has also been used for accurate e$ciency studies. The intrinsic detector ine$ciency free, from spacers e!ects has been measured. ( 2000 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.

STRUK, M., SOUKOPOVÁ, J.: Effi ciency of the current municipal waste expenditure – methodology approach and its application. Acta univ. agric. et silvic. Mendel. Brun., 2011, LIX, No. 7, pp. 379–386 The paper introduces methodology designed in order to evaluate and compare effi ciency of chosen municipal waste expenditure via calculating effi ciency ratings. First part of the paper briefl y des...

in some data envelopment analysis (dea) applications, some inputs of dmus have negative values with positive cost. this paper generalizes the global cost malmquist productivity index to compare the productivity of dierent dmus with negative inputs in any two periods of times under variable returns to scale (vrs) technology, and then the generalized index is decomposed to several components. th...

the main objective of this study was to investigate the effi ciency of biological treatmentof azo dye-containing wastewater with a sequencing batch reactor system, followed by ultrafi ltration.the performance of the system was quantifi ed by measuring the chemical oxygen demand and azo dyeconcentration. the biodegradation was carried out under combined alternating anaerobic and aerobiccondition...

Based on concentration probability of estimators about a true parameter, third-order asymptotic e ciency of the rst-order bias-adjusted MLE within the class of rst-order bias-adjusted estimators has been well established in a variety of probability models. In this paper we consider the class of second-order bias-adjusted Fisher consistent estimators of a structural parameter vector on the basis...

| In this paper, we analytically derive an exact expression for the SINR of the two-stage parallel interference cancellation (PIC) multiuser detector in a synchronous , nonorthogonal, binary, CDMA communication system. In order to obtain an intuitive understanding, we consider an approximation to the SINR expression that is well justiied in scenarios where the error probability of the matched l...

Due to their narrow power spectrum between idle and full utilization [2], satisfactory energy e ciency of servers can only be reached in the peak-performance range, whereas energy e ciency obtained for lower activity levels is far from being optimal. Hence, this hardware property obviates a desired energy proportionality or minimal energy use for the entire range of system utilization. To appro...