Using the Reverse Transcription-Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) technique, the gonadotropin releasing-hormone (GnRH) mRNA and GnRH receptor (GnRH-R) mRNA were analyzed in the preoptic area (POA), anterior (AH) and ventromedial (VM) hypothalamus, stalk/median eminence (SME) and anterior pituitary gland (AP) of anestrous ewes subjected to short or prolonged footshock stimulation. No GnRH gene ...

The focus of this study was to investigate the relationship between: (1) information communication technology (ICT) operational risk management (ORM) and (2) performance of small to medium enterprise (SME). To achieve the focus, the research investigated five specific research objectives that included the principal causes of ICT ORM failure in SME: change management requirements; characteristic...

Indonesia has a lot of SMEs as well as significant employment. However, it is estimated SMEs only producing less than 40 percent of the GDP of Indonesia. This is because SMEs mainly in the fields of agriculture and handicraft industry has a low productivity of the total 53 million SMEs that exist, one of the only place due to lack of mastery of information technology and entrepreneurial skills....

The research into SME’s is often presented as quite distinct from strategy or general management research. This paper examines the literature on Strategic Decision Making (SDM) process, drawing in some findings from the SME sector which show some key similarities. The paper makes proposals for research into SDM processes in SME’s, which would clarify both the general management theory and theor...

Smart Environments (SmE) are a growing combination of various computing frameworks (ubiquitous, pervasive etc), devices, control algorithms and a complex web of interactions. It is at the core of user facilitation in a number of industrial, domestic and public areas. Based on their application areas, SmE may be critical in terms of correctness, reliability, safety, security etc. To achieve erro...

The properties of light have proved to be a valuable testing ground for special relativity for more than a century. Contemporary experiments are motivated in part by a possible breakdown of special relativity with origins in Planck-scale physics [1, 2, 3]. These experiments include modern versions of the classic Michelson-Morley and Kennedy-Thorndike experiments that use highly stable resonant ...

This work first investigates two existing check node unit (CNU) architectures for LDPC decoding: self-message-excluded CNU (SME-CNU) and two-minimum CNU (TM-CNU) architectures, and analyzes their area and timing complexities based on various realization approaches. Compared to TM-CNU architecture, SME-CNU architecture is faster in speed but with much higher complexity for comparison operations....

Which is the best, impartially most plausible consensus view to serve as the basis of democratic group decision when voters disagree? Assuming that the judgment aggregation problem can be framed as a matter of judging a set of binary propositions (“issues”), we develop a multi-issue majoritarian approach based on the criterion of supermajority efficiency (SME). SME reflects the idea that smalle...

We propose a new integrated ensemble machine learning (ML) method, i.e., RS-RAB (Random Subspace-Real AdaBoost), for predicting the credit risk of China’s small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) in supply chain finance (SCF). The sample of empirical analysis is comprised of two data sets on a quarterly basis during the period of 2012–2013: one includes 48 listed SMEs obtained from the SME Board...

We propose a new discriminative learning framework, called soft margin estimation (SME), for estimating parameters of continuous density hidden Markov models. The proposed method makes direct usage of the successful ideas of soft margin in support vector machines to improve generalization capability, and of decision feedback learning in minimum classification error training to enhance model sep...