This paper assesses the relationship between length of recall and nonrandom error in agricultural survey data. Using data from LSMS-ISA surveys Malawi Tanzania, we show that key input output variables are systematically related to period, indicating presence measurement error. With longer periods, farmers report higher quantities harvest, labor fertilizer inputs. Farmers list fewer plots as per...

A new frequency-resolved bunch-length measuring system has been developed at the Stanford SUNSHINE facility to characterize subpicosecond electron pulses. Using a far-infrared Michelson interferometer, this method measures the spectrum of coherent transition radiation emitted from electron bunches through optical autocorrelation. The electron bunch length is obtained from the measurement with a...

Experiments were performed which demonstrate some of the length-measuring characteristics of a grid consisting of two sets of parallel lines crossing each other at right angles. If lines of various shapes are repeatedly superimposed at random on such a grid, the mean number of intersections each of these lines makes with the lines of the grid is directly proportional to the length of the line. ...

This paper describes a technique for accurately estimating the area and contour length of a planar non-polygonal region in the scene. The approach taken is to formulate a continuous model of the boundary of the region in the scene and use the image data to estimate the parameters of the model. The required information is then extracted from the model parameters. A high order trigonometric polyn...

In this paper, a review of different techniques used to measure the slip length on superhydrophobic surfaces with large slip length is presented. First, we present the theoretical models used to calculate the effective slip length on superhydrophobic surfaces in different configurations of liquid flow. Then, we present the different techniques used to measure the slip past these superhydrophobi...

OBJECTIVES To determine, in a population of women with preterm labor and intact membranes, whether ultrasound cervical length measurement performed only in patients selected according to the Bishop score predicts imminent preterm delivery better than does systematic cervical length measurement in the entire population. METHODS The Bishop score and sonographic cervical length were recorded pro...