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‘Tenderstem’ Broccoli for Export Markets: an Analysis Study on the AgroFood Company
Decision case, horticulture, agriculture economics, broccoli production, protected vegetable production, Agricultural Finance, Crop Production/Industries, Production Economics,
Allometric growth in the Diademodontinae (Reptilia; Therapsida); a preliminary report
Main articleThe hypothesis that many, if not all, of the South African and Zambian specimens, which have
been regarded as different diademodontine genera and species, actually consitute a taxonomically
homogeneous, ontogenetic growth series is tested. The principles of allometric growth were
applied to this sample of fossils, which varied considerably in size and shape. The approach
which was followed was exclusively morphometric. The results indicate that these specimens do
represent various ontogenetic stages of a growth series of only a single species of Diademodon
Seeley.Non
Opportunities for Producing Table Grapes in Egypt for the Export Market: A Decision Case Study
The Barakat Fruit Farm desires to increase their share of the exportable grape market in Egypt. Unfortunately, the grape cultivars currently cultivated by the farm bear fruit after the early market window to the European Union when prices are high. An analysis of the company, competition, consumer, market channel, and conditions, provides insight into possible solutions to the challenges faced by the farm management. Designed for undergraduate classroom use, this case encourages students to think outside of traditional production techniques to arrive at solutions that are viable from both crop culture and financial standpoints.Decision case, horticulture, agriculture economics, grape production, Production Economics, Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession, Q10, Q11,
Processed Chili Peppers for Export Markets: A Capital Budgeting Study on the AgroFood Company
The AgroFood Company, which currently exports fresh chili peppers to European clients, desires to expand the product mix offered. The company, as it expands its production of fresh peppers for export, has an increasing supply of grade 2 peppers that are unmarketable in Egypt. However, an attractive market for processed frozen chili peppers exists in Europe. To expand their client base, capitalize on a value added product, and minimize product waste, the AgroFood Company desires to develop processing practices for chili peppers produced in Egypt. The AgroFood Company would like to identify its options in the processed pepper market. An analysis of the company, competition, consumer, market channel, and conditions, provides insight into possible solutions to the challenges faced by the farm management. Designed for undergraduate classroom use, this case will provide students with an opportunity to evaluate the merits of business expansion into a high capacity, automated mechanical processing facility for grade 2 vegetables.Decision case, horticulture, agriculture economics, chili pepper production, protected vegetable production, Crop Production/Industries, Food Security and Poverty, Production Economics,
A complete one-loop calculation of electroweak supersymmetric effects in -channel single top production at LHC
We have computed the complete one-loop electroweak effects in the MSSM for
single top (and single antitop) production in the -channel at hadron
colliders, generalizing a previous analysis performed for the dominant
final state and fully including QED effects. The results are quite similar for
all processes. The overall Standard Model one-loop effect is small, of the few
percent size. This is due to a compensation of weak and QED contributions that
are of opposite sign. The genuine SUSY contribution is generally quite modest
in the mSUGRA scenario. The experimental observables would therefore only
practically depend, in this framework, on the CKM coupling.Comment: 25 pages, several eps figures. Update corresponding to published
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Simian immunodeficiency virus infection in wild-caught chimpanzees from Cameroon
Simian immunodeficiency viruses (SIVcpz) infecting chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) in west central Africa are the closest relatives to all major variants of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 ([HIV-1]; groups M, N and O), and have thus been implicated as the source of the human infections; however, information concerning the prevalence, geographic distribution, and subspecies association of SIVcpz still remains limited. In this study, we tested 71 wild-caught chimpanzees from Cameroon for evidence of SIVcpz infection. Thirty-nine of these were of the central subspecies (Pan troglodytes troglodytes), and 32 were of the Nigerian subspecies (Pan troglodytes vellerosus), as determined by mitochondrial DNA analysis. Serological analysis determined that one P. t. troglodytes ape (CAM13) harbored serum antibodies that cross-reacted strongly with HIV-1 antigens; all other apes were seronegative. To characterize the newly identified virus, 14 partially overlapping viral fragments were amplified from fecal virion RNA and concatenated to yield a complete SIVcpz genome (9,284 bp). Phylogenetic analyses revealed that SIVcpzCAM13 fell well within the radiation of the SIVcpzPtt group of viruses, as part of a clade including all other SIVcpzPtt strains as well as HIV-1 groups M and N. However, SIVcpzCAM13 clustered most closely with SIVcpzGAB1 from Gabon rather than with SIVcpzCAM3 and SIVcpzCAM5 from Cameroon, indicating the existence of divergent SIVcpzPtt lineages within the same geographic region. These data, together with evidence of recombination among ancestral SIVcpzPtt lineages, indicate long-standing endemic infection of central chimpanzees and reaffirm a west central African origin of HIV-1. Whether P. t. vellerosus apes are naturally infected with SIVcpz requires further study
Bounded Model Checking for Probabilistic Programs
In this paper we investigate the applicability of standard model checking
approaches to verifying properties in probabilistic programming. As the
operational model for a standard probabilistic program is a potentially
infinite parametric Markov decision process, no direct adaption of existing
techniques is possible. Therefore, we propose an on-the-fly approach where the
operational model is successively created and verified via a step-wise
execution of the program. This approach enables to take key features of many
probabilistic programs into account: nondeterminism and conditioning. We
discuss the restrictions and demonstrate the scalability on several benchmarks
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