Agricultural industries, as well other are experiencing profound changes a result of Industry 4.0. A key enabler technology that is becoming increasingly incorporated into agricultural equipment combination cyber-physical systems, machine learning, the Internet things, robots, artificial intelligence, cloud, and cognitive computing, which all technologies allow sector to achieve this transforma...

Background: This study aimed to explore the barriers and enablers to quitting khat from the perspective ofusers and the barriers and enablers to supporting users to quit from the perspective of healthcareprofessionals (HCPs).Methods: The present qualitative study was conducted using semi-structured interview...

an artificial neural network (ann) approach was used to model the wheat production. from an extensive data collection involving 40 farms in canterbury, new zealand, the average wheat production was estimated at 9.9 t ha-1. the final ann model developed was capable of predicting wheat production under different conditions and farming systems using direct and indirect technical factors. after exa...

The experiences of practitioners at recent International Association for Impact Assessment workshops on environmental impact assessment (EIA) follow-up are summarised to distil the ingredients required for success. These are presented in relation to the contextual factors that influence EIA follow-up practice: regulations and institutional arrangements; approaches to, and techniques for, follow...

Up to the recent past, Textbook Boards were the only institutions in Pakistan that had the mandate to develop textbooks for both government and private schools affiliated with public examination bodies of the country. These boards have been working under their respective provincial governments. This situation developed a culture of using a single-textbook in schools across the country. However,...

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In all relevant patent systems an adversely affected party has the possibility to appeal the patent office’s decision in front of a patent court or Board of Appeal (BoA). Within a European context, the EPO is, in a way, even engaging in de facto competition with national patent offices. As an example, the German Patent and Trademark Office (DPMA) provides quasi identical patent products and off...

1 Wen-Kuei Hsieh, Sze-Hai Instit ute of Technology and Commerce, Department of Banking and Insurance, [email protected] 2 Lin Hsiao, Sze-Hai Institute of Technology and Commerce, Department of Banking and Insurance Abstract -The purposes for founding Junior Colleges of Commerce in Taiwan were to cultivate intermediate business technicians to meet the needs of national economic development and...

A suitable knowledge of the orientation and motion of the Earth in space is a common need in various fields. That knowledge has been ever necessary to carry out astronomical observations, but with the advent of the space age, it became essential for making observations of satellites and predicting and determining their orbits, and for observing the Earth from space as well. Given the relevant r...

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