World’s natural resource will be pressured by population increment that is to achieve high food production through intensive farming. Bulb crops are among largely produced which characterized a shallow root system and underground vertical shoots. They also cool season crops, their growth influenced water, nutrients, radiation carbon-dioxide. Factors determine water use efficiency tillage, stage...

S.K. Sanyal and A. Robertson-Tait GeothermEx, Inc. Richmond, California M. Kraemer and N. Buening California Energy Commission Sacramento, California This paper presents the initial results of a survey of the occurrence and characteristics of geopressured fluid resources in California using the publicly-available database involving more than 150,000 oil and gas wells drilled in the State. Of th...

The core objective of this study is to understand individuals IS usage by going beyond the traditional subjective self-reported and objective system-log measures to unveil the delicate process through which users interact with IS. In this study, we conducted a laboratory experiment to capture users’ eye movement and, more importantly, applied a novel methodology that uses the Gaussian mixture m...

Although the term precision irrigation is now quite widely used, often to mean drip irrigation, there is no commonly accepted definition or conceptualisation of the term, and no cohesive framework to guide research, development or adoption. This paper is reporting on a review of precision irrigation funded by NPSI. This review is considering the role of current irrigation application technologi...

Speech disturbances in schizophrenia impact on the individual's communicative ability. Although they are considered a core feature of schizophrenia, comparatively little work has been done to examine their impact on the life experiences of patients. This study aimed to examine the relationship between schizophrenia speech disturbances, including those traditionally known as formal thought disor...

Objective: To analyze the predictive factors of abortion among teenagers with gestational history. Methods: Cross-sectional study carried out with 464 teenagers aged between 15 and 19 years, from Teresina, Piauí, who completed a pregnancy in the first quarter of 2006 in six city maternity hospitals. Data were collected from May to December 2008, at the teenagers' home, after their identificat...

Building on an in-depth study of clinical problem solving in crisis situations, we develop a formal mathematical model of diagnostic sensemaking that represents the interactions among acting, interpreting cues, and cultivating new diagnoses. Driven by powerful reinforcing dynamics, the interplay among these processes opens and closes windows of opportunity for adaptive sensemaking. There are cr...