Yield monitoring is one of the most important operations for efficient management of agricultural fields. One of the common methods used to monitor hay yield variability is to monitor the hay mass flow rate inside the baler chamber during hay baling process.Therefore, this study on a 10 ha field was conducted to investigate the performance of a hay mass flow monitoring system mounted on a large...

Quantifying the exploitable gap between average farmer yields and yield potential (YP) is essential to prioritize research and formulate policies for food security at national and international levels. While irrigated maize accounts for 58% of total annual maize production in the Western U.S. Corn Belt, current yield gap in these systems has not been quantified. Our objectives were to quantify ...

A total of 6604 test-day records belonging to 1651 lactations of 784 Egyptian Zaraibi goats were used to generate and evaluate several simplified milk yield recording plans based on the yield of a single monthly milking, adjusted or unadjusted for interval between milkings and for production level. Loss of precision associated with simplified designs was evaluated by comparing estimated lactati...

Until recently, VLSI designers rarely considered yield issues when selecting a floorplan for a newly designed chip. This paper demonstrates that for large area VLSI chips, especially those that incorporate some fault tolerance, changes in the floorplan can affect the projected yield. We study several general floorplan structures, make some specific recommendations, and apply them to actual VLSI...

This paper describes a new manufacturing yield model for submicron VLSI circuits. This model attempts to handle process induced differences between IC layout and actual IC topography. The presented model focuses on the random nature of over and under etching phenomenon. The relevance of the new yield model in submicron domain is analyzed. Examples of yield calculations using the proposed model ...

This paper presents the importance of understanding defect propagation/growth and its impact on in-line yield prediction. In order to improve the prediction accuracy, impact of defect propagation and growth phenomena needs to be modeled and incorporated into yield prediction system. We developed a new yield prediction model by taking into account defect carryover. The empirical results of inter...

Treasury bonds provide money-like services, while other bonds do not. These money-like services, which include safety and liquidity, are valued more during financial crises, reducing the substitutability of actual Treasuries and synthetic Treasuries—other types of bonds that yield the same cash flows. Large equilibrium yield spreads between actual and synthetic Treasuries result. During the rec...