Florida's Citrus Canker Eradication Program (CCEP): Benefit-Cost Analysis by Marisa L. Zansler, Thomas H. Spreen, Ronald P. Muraro

“…The actual expenditures of implementation to-date are weighed against the estimated loss of revenue and the cost savings associated with an industry with pervasive citrus canker in an attempt to assess the net benefits of the policy. …”
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Fréchet Random Noise for k-Regime-Switching Mixture Autoregressive Model by Rasaki, Olawale Olanrewaju, Anthony, Gichuhi Waititu, Nafiu, Lukman Abiodun

“…Fréchet Mixture Autoregressive (FMAR) model of k-regime-switching, denoted by FMAR(k; p1, p2 ,, pk ) was developed and Expectation-Maximization (EM) algorithm was used as a method of parameter estimation for the embedded coefficients of AR of k-mixing weights and lag pk. …”
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Numbers for Successful Poultry Production by Gary D. Butcher, Amir H. Nilipour

“…Man has taken full control of incubating fertile eggs by artificial means to supply the increasing world demand for poultry meat. It is estimated that worldwide more than 30 billion broiler fertile eggs are incubated annually. …”
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Energy Consumption Predication in China Based on the Modified Fractional Grey Prediction Model by Jiefang Liu, Pumei Gao

“…In this paper, the parameter estimation method and the specific process of model establishment are presented. …”
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DIVERSE ASPECTS OF LOCAL FISCAL CAPACITY – CASE STUDY OF POLAND by Elżbieta Malinowska-Misiąg

“…Such a system should take into account both appropriately assigned sources of its own revenues as well as properly estimated expenditure needs, and equalization transfers. …”
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Two Approximation Models of Fuzzy Weight Vector from a Comparison Matrix by Tomoe Entani

“…Its membership function is estimated from more than one interval weight vector. …”
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An Operator-Difference Method for Telegraph Equations Arising in Transmission Lines by Mehmet Emir Koksal

“…This difference scheme is unconditionally absolutely stable. Stability estimates for the solution of the difference scheme are presented. …”
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Géologie, théologie et inquiétudes eschatologiques : William Thomson (Lord Kelvin) et les débats suscités par la thermodynamique à l’époque victorienne by Jean-Michel Yvard

“…He used the laws of thermodynamics to calculate the age of our planet and he concluded that it was probably from 100 to 500 million years old, which was much lower than the estimations currently accepted by geologists, and threatened to put into question the darwinian theory of evolution. …”
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Design of a Novel NNs Learning Tracking Controller for Robotic Manipulator with Joints Flexibility by Pengxiao Jia

“…The control scheme employs neural networks-based observers to estimate both motor velocity and link velocity. By using the virtually applied torque, the link controller is designed based on rigid link dynamics, and the motor controller is designed using the dynamic surface control technique. …”
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Alternative Definitions of Complexity for Practical Applications of Model Selection Criteria by Murari Andrea, Riccardo Rossi, Teddy Craciunescu

“…Three alternative approaches are proposed in this work. The first one estimates the flexibility of the proposed models to quantify their potential to overfit. …”
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ERYTHROCYTE SEDEMENTATION RATE:A USEFUL TOOL IN DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH by Muhammad Usman

“…Although it doesn’t enjoy the status of being called a diagnostic test,even then it is in continuous use as a good indicator in conditions like infections and inflammations; for screening and prognosis of certain diseases and also for monitoring the course of an existing disease.It is a good indicator to estimate the quantitative change in plasma that may occur in a lot of clinical conditions ranging from simple to much serious disorders such as inflammation, infection, pregnancy, obesity and even malignancies. …”
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Evaporation Loss During Sprinkler Irrigation by F. S. Zazueta

“…A nomograph is introduced to estimate evaporation loss, with findings suggesting an average daily loss of 1.5 percent in Gainesville, Florida. …”
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The ICT–Economic Growth Nexus: Revisiting the Impact of the Internet on GDP by Oliwia Sojka, Jacek Pietrucha

“…This paper investigates the connection between Internet usage and economic growth. The estimation is based on a broad group of economies (88 countries) from 2006 to 2020 using data from the International Telecommunication Union database. …”
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Le passage du fordisme au néolibéralisme au Canada by Jean-Guy Loranger, Gérard Boismenu

“…Although the Error Correction Model (cointegration analysis) is rarely used by heterodox economists, that method of estimation is used for a long-run period 1947-1999 and for two sub-periods: 1947-75 and 1976-99. …”
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Problems of modern diagnostics of choledocholithiasis by S. G. Shapoval’yants, T. B. Ardasenov, D. A. Freydovich, A. G. Mylnikov, A. G. Pan’kov, S. A. Budzinsky, A. A. Nikonov

“…So, it is important to define prognostic criteria (clinical, biochemical and ultrasound), determining necessity of additional more invasive and expensive investigation of bile ducts. However estimation of diagnostic criteria suggested by different authors and their threshold values is ambiguous. …”
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Wetted Bulb Dimensions From a Trickle Source by Elsa S. Sepúlveda, Fedro S. Zazueta

“… An estimation of the wetted bulb diameter dimensions is needed to determine the number of emitters per plant when using drip or trickle irrigation systems. …”
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Extension Programs in Northeastern Florida Help Growers Produce Quality Strawberries by Improving Water and Nutrient Management by Robert Hochmuth, David Dinkins, Michael Sweat, Eric Simonne

“…Strawberry acreage in northeastern Florida (Gainesville and north) was estimated at 40 acres in 2003. This document is HS-956, one of a series of Department of Horticultural Sciences, Florida Cooperative Extension Service, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida. …”
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Research on Optimal Control Method of Tennis Racket String Diameter Based on Kalman Filter Algorithm by Xin Chen

“…In addition, this paper improves the real-time performance and calculation accuracy of data transformation through adaptive sampling strategy and adaptive scale factor, improves the stability and estimation accuracy of the system as a whole, and builds an intelligent monitoring system. …”
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Optical vortices in dispersive nonlinear Kerr-type media by Lubomir M. Kovachev

“…Using this approximation, different orders of dispersion of the linear and nonlinear susceptibility can be estimated. Critical values of parameters to observe different linear and nonlinear effects are determined. …”
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Topology of black hole phase transition in JT gravity by Hemant Rathi, Dibakar Roychowdhury

“…We confirm the robustness of our model by estimating perturbative corrections to the bulk free energy at an arbitrary order in the Yang-Mills coupling. …”
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