Income from o®-farm sources is especially important for land-poor households. However, the pattern of participation in o®-farm activities is heterogeneous across space. We explore the determinants of participation in o®-farm employment using data from rural Mexico. In particular, we try to undertand how the neighborhood and the neighbors a®ect the individual decision to participate in o®-farm l...

This work adds to the previous literature on networked business incubators (NBIs) by exploring the complex network of relationships originated from a NBI. In particular, social ties (cooperative relations between individuals) and business ties (formal linkages between organizations) are investigated. The analytical framework developed here is empirically illustrated through a case study researc...

Render farm is widely used in movie industry to solve the long rendering time problem. By parallel computing rendering jobs, render farm can speedup the rendering process in a scalable way. In this paper, we present an efficient design of render farm system name DRFarm in distributed environment. The most important feature of the system is the capacity aware task scheduling strategy. We first i...

The rain-fed mechanized agricultural sub-sector of the Sudan has high potential of building a national food stock and foreign exchange earnings, which could contribute substantially to agricultural development and hence the development of the whole economy as well. However, the agricultural production in this sub-sector is generally characterized by a high degree of instability, which arises fr...

The technique of the processor farm has become very widely used for paral lelising applications often being mentioned without reference to any source The goal of this work has been to put together a complete and rigorous un derstanding of what the technique can be used for and what is needed in order to arrive at an e ciently farmed application This paper consists of these two parts We have sho...