We have developed two types of soil moisture monitoring system and performed long-term test employment of these systems in the coffee plantation in Hawaii. One is a lower cost and smaller size near-infrared moisture sensor developed by the SANYO Electric (Co., Ltd.), the other is a modified system for monitoring soil information, called SIMS(Soil Information Monitoring System). We settled them ...

1 Mapi Values, Boston, MA, USA 2 Center for Health Economics and Science Policy, United BioSource Corporation, Bethesda, MD, USA 3 Pharmaceutical Outcomes Research & Policy Program, School of Pharmacy, School of Medicine, University of Washington, USA 4 Merck Research Laboratories, North Wales, PA, USA 5 Eli Lilly and Company Ltd, Windlesham, Surrey, UK 6 Oxford Outcomes Ltd, Oxford, UK 7 Canad...

In this paper, we present a mobility management scheme for real-timemultimedia sessions over heterogeneous wireless networks. Most approaches in the current literature use Mobile IP (MIP) or Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) to maintain real-time sessions during mobility. In this paper, we analyze MIP and SIP in terms of the mobility rate, packet loss and packet overheads in the user plane and ...

Long-term potentiation (LTP) is a synaptic enhancement that follows brief, high-frequency electrical stimulation in the hippocampus and neocortex. Recent evidence suggests that induction of LTP may require, in addition to postsynaptic Ca2+ entry, activation of metabotropic glutamate receptors and the generation of diffusible intercellular messengers. A new form of synaptic plasticity, homosynap...

The employee stock ownership plan is a mechanism in which employees within company share of the and participate distribution profits by holding company's or options. Taking three-phase plans Meinian Health (Meinian Onehealth Healthcare Holdings Co., Ltd.) as an example, this paper analyzes implementation motives Health's plan, compares market reaction before after corporate governance capabilit...

The implementation of enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems has been known to be much more difficult than the development of a computer application supporting a single business function. In this article, the researcher presents a case study of an ERP system implementation by a medium company in Ethiopia. Mesfine Industrial Engineering (MIE) Pvt. Ltd. is a vast unrivalled metal construction...

ITC was established on August 24, 1910, as the Imperial Tobacco Company of India Ltd. in Kolkata, and its name changed to I.T.C. 1974. Finally, it 2001. has a diversified presence tobacco, foods confectionery, apparel, packaging, hotel business. They entered food business 2001 launched Kol brand under Ready Eat segment. expanded with launches confectionary, staples, snack segments. The study co...