the effects of banana continuous cropping on soil quality and chemical properties and crop yield were investigated under continuous cropping for 1, 3, 5, 7, 10, and 15 years in hainan province, china. the results indicated that the contents of total n, total k, available k, nh4-n, exchangeable ca, and available cu tended to increase, while total organic c (toc), available s, and available zn te...

Introduction Pressure ulcers are tissue damages resulting from blood flow restriction, which occurs when the tissue is exposed to high pressure for a long period of time. These painful sores are common in patients and elderly, who spend extended periods of time in bed or wheelchair. In this study, a continuous pressure and temperature monitoring system was developed for pressure ulcer preventio...

The state estimation of a quantized system (Q.S.) is a challenging problem for designing feedback control and model-based fault diagnosis algorithms. The core of a Q.S. is a continuous variable system whose inputs and outputs are represented by their corresponding quantized values. This paper concerns with state estimation of a Q.S. by a qualitative observer. The presented observer in this pape...

The potential impact of wheat flour fortification with iron and folic acid was assessed using data about food purchases from the nationally representative 2000 Guatemalan Living Standards Measurement Survey. Of 7265 households, 35% were indigenous and 57% rural; 11% were extremely poor, 35% were poor, and 54% were nonpoor. The percentage of households that purchased wheat flour, sweet bread, Fr...

The shopping trends emerge into a new era by means of web services. Currently online shopping grabs everyone attention due to its vast technology implementation with easy methodology. On this way web creates wonderful online privileges for the customers. In this process the important factor to be discussed is providing automatic suggestion about the product or services to the customer by the sy...

When friction ridge detail is examined using the ACE-V methodology, examiners’ documentation shall be such that another qualified examiner can determine what was done and interpret the data. Documentation shall be made at or near the time of the examination and may be in the form of annotated images, narratives, worksheets, annotated legible copies, sketches, [etc.]...Although all examinations ...

Signature-based solutions for Intrusion Detection are dominant in practice despite of its incapability to detect zero-day attacks. Moreover, anomaly-based Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS), a promising approach against both known and unknown attacks, are not mature for a broad productive use. Therefore, the further development of anomaly based IDS is an imperative task to strengthen security in...