Market Development Strategies for Fresh Sweet Corn: Findings from 2001 Retailer Surveys by Kimberly Morgan, Robert Degner

“… In order to better utilize limited marketing dollars, the Fresh Supersweet Corn Council contracted with the Florida Agricultural Market Research Center (FAMRC) in 2001 to conduct surveys of produce retailers and fresh sweet corn consumers. …”
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Market Development Strategies for Florida Fresh Sweet Corn: Findings from a Consumer Survey, 2001 by Tom Stevens, Robert Degner, Kimberly Morgan, Chris deBodisco, Lisa House

“…In 2001, the Council contracted with the Florida Agricultural Market Research Center at the Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences to conduct a consumer survey to evaluate existing and potential impediments to future market growth for both wholesale and retail stages and to make recommendations for specific marketing strategies that could increase Council members' profitability. …”
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A Fast Region-Based Segmentation Model with Gaussian Kernel of Fractional Order by Bo Chen, Qing-Hua Zou, Wen-Sheng Chen, Yan Li

“…In this proposed model, the energy function with value of [−1, 1] is built, the local mean and global mean of the inside and outside of the evolution curve are employed, and the segmentation results are obtained by controlling the expansion and contraction of the evolution curve. The model is simple and easy to implement; it can also protect weak edges because of considering more statistical information. …”
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Market Development Strategies for Florida Fresh Sweet Corn: Findings from a Consumer Survey, 2001 by Tom Stevens, Robert Degner, Kimberly Morgan, Chris deBodisco, Lisa House

“…In 2001, the Council contracted with the Florida Agricultural Market Research Center at the Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences to conduct a consumer survey to evaluate existing and potential impediments to future market growth for both wholesale and retail stages and to make recommendations for specific marketing strategies that could increase Council members' profitability. …”
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Investigating smart water distribution via sensor networks: a brief examination by Dmitriy Vladislav

“…An attempt is made in this place studies illustrations to justify water encumber customers; facts losses, able to be contracted helping cure selections and moreover to build a clean, reliable and unfamiliar water transfer finish. …”
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Geology of the eastern tip of the El Tordell Fault, Southern Pyrenees by Eloi Carola, Josep Anton Muñoz

“…Along strike variations of frontal structures at fold and thrust belts allow us deciphering the evolution of contractional structures at early stages of deformation but also, how processes such as salt mobilisation, thrust emplacement, and folding develop. …”
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In vivo Evaluation of Patellar Tendon Stiffness in Individuals with Patellofemoral Pain Syndrome by Hsin-Yi Liu, Michelle Boling, Darin Padua, R. Alexander Creighton, Paul Weinhold

“…Subjects were asked to perform isometric maximal voluntary contractions of the knee extensors while their knee extension torque was monitored and the displacement of the patellar tendon was recorded with an ultrasonic system. …”
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Multiple Osteomas in Middle Ear by Yongxin Li, Qiuhuan Li, Shusheng Gong, Honggang Liu, Zilong Yu, Luo Zhang

“…Here we describe a patient with multiple middle ear osteomas arising from the promontory, incus, Eustachian tube, and bony semicanal of tensor tympani muscle. This patient also contracted the chronic otitis media in the ipsilateral ear. …”
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Analytical solutions for Maxwell-scalar system on radially symmetric spacetimes by I. Andrade, D. Bazeia, M. A. Marques, R. Menezes, G. J. Olmo

“…The stability of the solutions against contractions and dilations, following Derrick’s argument, and around small fluctuations in the fields is also investigated. …”
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Design and Driving Characteristics of Rehabilitation Robot Flexible Joints Based on Polyvinylidene Fluoride by Xie Guanghui, Sun Hong, Sun Fanwei, Wang Guangjian

“…The preparation and the electric deformation mechanism of PVDF gel are introduced, the monomer-muscle with the function of contraction and extension is designed based on electric deformation mechanism, and then multiple monomer-muscles are combined up and down in series to form a hierarchical artificial muscle. …”
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Projets et conception de l’entrée monumentale de la cathédrale Sainte-Marie d’Auch : les apports du De re aedificatoria d’Alberti by Sophie Fradier

“…The construction of the monumental entrance to the Saint Mary of Auch Cathedral spans just over a century from 1560 to 1680. A number of labour contracts exist illustrating the completion of the work (17th Century) but few documents describe the initial construction phase (16th Century). …”
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Pricing American Options Using a Nonparametric Entropy Approach by Xisheng Yu, Li Yang

“…Finally, we conduct the comparative analysis based on simulations and IBM option contracts. The results demonstrate that this nonparametric entropy approach yields reasonably accurate prices for American options and produces smaller pricing errors compared to other competing methods.…”
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Periodic Solutions for Nonlinear Integro-Differential Systems with Piecewise Constant Argument by Kuo-Shou Chiu

“…Then we construct appropriate mappings and employ Krasnoselskii’s fixed point theorem to show the existence of a periodic solution of this type of nonlinear differential equations. We also use the contraction mapping principle to show the existence of a unique periodic solution. …”
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Renewable energy in chemical industrial buildings for cost performance by Bernadette Detty Kussumardianadewi, Albert Eddy Husin, Lastarida Sinaga

“…This framework is specifically designed for smart contracts and digital transactions in the chemical industry's retrofitting of green buildings. …”
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Decoding the future: a bibliometric exploration of blockchain in logistics by Mª Del Valle Fernández Moreno, Juan Miguel Alcántara-Pilar, Marta Tolentino

“…Visual representations of the results are provided through longitudinal maps and strategic diagrams, illustrating pivotal themes across the three study periods: blockchain and sustainability. Smart contracts emerge as a focal topic in the final period under consideration.…”
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A Novel Cuckoo Search Optimized Deep Auto-Encoder Network-Based Fault Diagnosis Method for Rolling Bearing by Jinyu Tong, Jin Luo, Haiyang Pan, Jinde Zheng, Qing Zhang

“…Second, the sparse penalty term and contractive penalty term are used simultaneously to regularize the loss function of auto-encoder to enhance the feature learning ability of networks. …”
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A Criticism of the Kyoto Protocol with an Objective Approach by Z. Fuat Toprak, Sertaç Atabey

“…In this study: 1) what obligations the articles of the Kyoto Protocol impose on the countries that are party to the protocol, 2) whether the articles of the protocol are impartial, equal, and fair in their obligations to the contracting countries and their binding, 3) how the economic support of developed countries to reduce emissions to developing countries can be evaluated in the context of the principle of equality/justice, 4) it has been discussed whether the non-bindingness of the countries those are not party to the protocol. …”
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Rationale for Antioxidant Supplementation in Sarcopenia by Francesco Cerullo, Giovanni Gambassi, Matteo Cesari

“…In fact, skeletal muscle is a highly oxygenated tissue and the generation of reactive oxygen species is particularly enhanced in both contracting and at rest conditions. It has been suggested that oral antioxidant supplementation may contribute at reducing indices of oxidative stress both in animal and human models by reinforcing the natural endogenous defenses. …”
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Post-cholecystectomy functional disorders of the sphincter of Oddi after by Yu. M. Pantsyrev, S. G. Shapoval’yants, S. A. Chernyakevich, A. G. Pankov, I. V. Babkova, S. Yu. Orlov, N. V. Zubova

“…Functional SO disorders (spasm of papilla of Vater, hyper- and hypokinetic dyskinesia, increased frequency of contractions, local stenosis of papilla of Vater in combination to sphincter dysfunction) were diagnosed in all patients, who underwent endoscopic SO manometry. …”
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Design and Construction of a Hydraulic Lift. by Ndahura, Dickens

“…This project is mainly focused on the force acting on the hydraulic lift when it is extended and contracted. Generally, a hydraulic lift is used for lifting and holding heavy-weight components. …”
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