the present study was focused on supply chain analysis of fresh guava in order to evaluate existing marketing supply chains (sc1: producer - consumer, sc2: producer - retailer - consumer, sc3: producer - commission agent - retailer - consumer, sc4: producer - commission agent - wholesaler - retailer - consumer) for two variety (allahabad safeda and apple guava) of guava. the gross marketing pri...

The on-going reduction of the on-chip feature size goes together with an increase of process variability. While the manufacturer is expected to improve the uniformity of its output, and the designers are expected to enhance circuit adaptability and reliability, the design tools are expected to deliver convenient and fast approaches capable of giving accurate characterizations of manufacturing t...

We describe a resource bounding technique called the Flow Balance Constraint (FBC) to tightly bound the amount of available resource for a set of partially ordered events with piecewise constant resource impact. We provide an efficient algorithm for calculating FBC and bound its complexity. We compare this technique with two existing resource bounding techniques, the Balance Constraint (BC) due...

Recently, there has been substantial interest in using rule-based modelling approaches, such as the Kappa modelling language, to attack the combinatorial intractability of many biochemical systems. These approaches have allowed several novel static analyses to be developed, which motivates broadening their expressivity. In this paper, we build upon prior work giving Kappa an SPO-rewriting seman...

the objective of this study was to evaluate the effects of weaning age on dry matter intake (dmi), average daily gain (adg), feed efficiency (fe), feed cost (fc) and benefit index (bi) of holstein calves reared under organic farming system. thirty two holstein calves were divided into two treatments: early weaning (ew) vs. late weaning (lw). calves in the both groups were provided with whole mi...

This paper estimates dynamic efficiency in the Spanish construction industry before and during the current financial crisis over the period 2001-2009. Static efficiency measures are biased in a context of a significant economic crisis with large investments and disinvestments as they do not account for costs in the adjustment of quasi-fixed factors. The results show that overall dynamic cost in...

A Bloom filter is a space efficient structure for storing static sets, where the space efficiency is gained at the expense of a small probability of false-positives. A Bloomier filter generalizes a Bloom filter to compactly store a function with a static support. In this article we give a simple construction of a Bloomier filter. The construction is linear in space and requires constant time to...

An innovative dynamic scheduling scheme is proposed to improve the efficiency of video-on-demand servers. We first introduce a paged segment striping model that makes dynamic scheduling possible. Based on this striping scheme, we propose a dynamic scheduling scheme that adapts to frequently changing workloads. In particular, we can change the round length without any additional disk access so t...