Accurate metering of agricultural water is becoming increasingly important world wide. Surprisingly, the dynamics of water in small irrigation canals are not well understood and this limits the accuracy of flow measurements in these channels. To help improve the accuracy of flow data, we performed detailed measurements of the velocity distribution for a variety of flow conditions in a several s...

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This paper focuses on the task of tagging text with their parts of speech. The methodology chosen for this task is the Maximum Entropy based Model and although complex will only be explained briefly. More importantly, the focus will center on the differences in performance of the maxent model with varying feature sets compared to the baseline model. One problem highlighted in part-of-speech tag...

In the book “Optimal inventory modeling of systems: multi-echelon techniques” the author Craig Sherbrooke, who has developed several important model in this area, describes a part of the model cosidered in this manuscript as follows (in “aircraft language”): “When a malfunction is diagnosed on an aircraft, the malfuncioning item is removed from the aircraft and brought into base supply. If a sp...

This paper investigates the empirical validity of different classes of ‘development trap’ models of economic growth. Quah (1993) finds that the cross country distribution of per capita income is moving toward a twin peaked distribution. This finding has supported and encouraged a large theoretical literature on development traps that produce twin peaks through physical and human capital accumul...