In this paper we compare the changes in farm incomes in EU regions and US States between1989 and 2002. The aim of this comparative analysis is highlight the patterns of convergence or divergence and how they differ over time. We use two recent analytical instruments: non-stationary panel analysis and dynamic distribution analysis. Both tools overcome the problems involved in using standard cros...

Instituto de Engenharia Mecânica e Gestão Industrial (INEGI). Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto (FEUP). Departamento de Engenharia Mecânica e Gestão Industrial (DEMEGI). Rua Dr. Roberto Frias, s/n – 4200-465 Porto, Portugal. e-mail: {victor.albuquerque, tavares}@fe.up.pt 2 Centro de Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Engenharia Mecânica (CIDEM). Departamento de Engenharia Mecânica...

El Estado de Guanajuato es el principal productor trigo (Triticum aestivum L.) la región Bajío que segunda zona productora este cereal en México. En ciclo otoño-invierno (OI)1998-99 se sembraron 98 072 ha trigo, con una producción 510 894 t, logr´ó gran medida satisfacer demanda regional. Sin embargo, siembran predominantemente variedades gluten débil y poco fuerte (3900 1999-00), cuya por indu...

We document a parallel non-recursive beam search GPGPU FCA CbO like algorithm written in nVidia CUDA C and test it on software module dependency graphs. Despite removing repeated calculations and optimising data structures and kernels, we do not yet see major speed ups. Instead GeForce 295 GTX and Tesla C2050 report 141 072 concepts (maximal rectangles, clusters) in about one second. Future imp...

072 supplies are not that good. So, a specifically-tailored recommendation for extending the pregnancy for more 2 weeks (i.e. till 36 weeks of pregnancy) was advised. This latter recommendation was principally built on senior staff opinions. The goal of the current article was to retrospectively evaluate the neonatal and maternal outcomes of delivery prior to and beyond 34 weeks of pregnancy in...