abstract the application of the crop growth models could facilitate irrigation water and fertilizer management due to reduce of field visits and direct measurements. these models are often so complex that it is difficult to understand them and some of those input data are not accessible. in this study, a simple model (vsm) was used to yield prediction of corn under different water and nitrogen ...

The current situation in the market caused by COVID-19 pandemic brings new challenges. Lean management showed its deficiency form of low stock (JIT/JIS) already during tsunami 2011 Japan, when leader LEAN Toyota withdrew from zero order to be able respond agilely serious supply disruptions. unfavourable is a global problem that requirements ensure competitiveness companies. A possible response ...

This paper presents an approach that merges case relations into the well-known Vector Space Model (VSM), leading to a new model named CVSM (Case relation-based VSM). A Chinese case system with 23 case relations is established, and a Chinese Olympic news corpus of 7,662 sentences, denoted COCS, is constructed by manual annotation with these 23 case relations. We use 50 queries on COCS as a test ...

This paper presents a group-theoretical vector space model (VSM) that extends the VSM with a group action on a vector space of the VSM. We use group and its representation theory to represent a dynamic transformation of information objects, in which each information object is represented by a vector in a vector space of the VSM. Several groups and their matrix representations are employed for r...

More than 30% of the US population has high blood pressure (BP), and less than a third of people treated for hypertension have it controlled. In addition, the etiology of most high BP is not known. Having a better understanding of the mechanisms underlying hypertension could potentially increase the effectiveness of treatment. Because G(q) signaling mediates vasoconstriction and vascular functi...

This chapter considers the usefulness of the Viable System Model (VSM) in the study of organizational adaptation. The VSM is a rigorous organizational model that was developed from the study of cybernetics and has been given considerable ttention by management science research. The chapter presents a longitudinal case study that focuses upon a software development team. The VSM was useful in di...

A pseudo-strain energy function (pseudo-SEF) describing the biomechanical properties of large conduit arteries under the influence of vascular smooth muscle (VSM) tone is proposed. In contrast to previous models that include the effects of smooth muscle contraction through generation of an active stress, in this study we consider the vascular muscle as a structural element whose contribution to...

Value Stream Mapping (VSM) is an established technique to model, analyze and optimize material and information flows in a manufacturing company. VSM does supply a graphical notation, however, it does not provide an automatic execution model. As a result, the flows modeled in VSM need to be mapped to executable ITSystems manually. This paper proposes an approach to enable automatic execution of ...

Rapid, reflex-like stepping movements are a prevalent and functional compensatory reaction to destabilization, however, little is known about the underlying control. In this paper, a model is developed to examine how speed and stability demands affect control of foot placement during forward and backward compensatory stepping reactions. The concept of the velocity stability margin (VSM) is intr...

Recent experimental studies have shown significant alterations of the vascular smooth muscle (VSM) tone when an artery is subjected to an elevation in pressure. Therefore, the VSM participates in the adaptation process not only by means of its synthetic activity (fibronectins and collagen) or proliferative activity (hypertrophy and hyperplasia) but also by adjusting its contractile properties a...