To overcome the challenging food safety and security problem, in 2003, Thai government initiated ‘Good Agricultural Practices’ (GAP) technology. This paper used a sample of 107 small chili farms from Chiyaphoom province for 2012 crop year, data envelopment analysis (DEA) meta-frontier directional distance function technique to answer two questions: (1) Are GAP-adopting farms, on average, more e...

We initiate a systematic study of sublinear algorithms for approximately testing properties of realvalued data with respect to Lp distances for p ≥ 1. Such algorithms distinguish datasets which either have (or are close to having) a certain property from datasets which are far from having it with respect to Lp distance. For applications involving noisy real-valued data, using Lp distances allow...

This paper investigates a multi-period rectilinear distance 1-center location problem considering a line-shaped barrier, in which the starting point of the barrier follows the uniform distribution function. In addition, the existing points are sensitive to demands and locations. The purpose of the presented model is to minimize the maximum barrier distance from the new facility to the existing ...

aging has negative effects on motor and cognitive functions, so it is essential to identify appropriate strategies to prevent the decrease of motor and cognitive functions. the aim of this research was to investigate the effect of vitamin e supplement on motor activity and spatial learning in aged rats. 36 male albino – wistar aged rats were assigned to three groups of control, vitamin e and sh...

purpose: to measure the upper eyelid crease landmarks in an iranian population sample. methods: we studied 208 iranian subjects aged 30 to 50 years. upper eyelid crease height was measured in lateral, medial and central positions using calipers. levator function (lf) was also evaluated after exclusion of frontalis muscle function. results: mean age was 39.1±5.9 years and female to male ratio wa...