Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractFactor Affecting Technical Efficiency of Smallholder Rubber Farming in Northeast ThailandS. Poungchompu, S. ChantanopWith the increase of rubber production, Para rubber farmers in Northeastern Thailand have faced the limited physical and socio-economic conditions that have given rise to the improvement of technical efficiency. This study investigated the technical efficiency of Para rubber farmers. A multi-stage random sampling technique was used to collect cross sectional data on 300 farmers. The data was analyzed using … …American Journal of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Vol. 10, Issue 2 · 24 Jun 2015 · 8,655 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractTrace Elements Distribution in the Brain of Stressed RatsZerrouk Kamal, Mohamed Najimi, Mohammed Chigr et al.Because of their ability to modulate the Gamma Aminobutyric Acid (GABA) a receptor complex, the principal aim of the current work is to assess two essential heavy metals: Iron (Fe) and zinc (Zn) by atomic absorption in different brain areas of stressed rats. To do so, we investigated the effect of acute immobilization stress (single 1-hour session) on the distribution … …Neuroscience International, Vol. 3, Issue 2 · 14 Sep 2012 · 7,288 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractA Convergence Theorem for Bivariate Exponential Dispersion ModelsLila Ricci, Gabriela BoggioMultivariate exponential dispersion models (MEDMs) were defined in 2013 by Jørgensen and Martínez. A particular case of MEDM is the bivariate Gamma model; in this article we prove that, under certain conditions, this is a limit distribution for MEDM generated by bivariate regularly varying measures, extending a previous result given by the aforementioned authors for the univariate case. As necessary … …Journal of Mathematics and Statistics, Vol. 15, Issue 1 · 25 Jul 2019 · 6,586 accessesView PDFCite
Review ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractRole of Cytokines and Transcription Factors in Periodontitis: A Review of Cellular and Molecular MechanismsAnne Carolina Eleutério Leite, Valéria Martins de Araújo Carneiro, Júlia Faria Nunes et al.Periodontal Diseases (PD) are characterized by pathological manifestation of host immune response to bacterial infection at the tooth/gingival interface. Evidences points periodontitis as a risk factor for pathological systemic conditions, such as, cardiovascular diseases and diabetes. The identification of host factors that determine their susceptibility to immune subversion can provide useful information in the pathogenesis of periodontitis. Protective acute inflammatory … …American Journal of Immunology, Vol. 11, Issue 4 · 9 Dec 2015 · 7,809 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractDiscrete Wavelet Transform Based Classification of Human Emotions Using Electroencephalogram SignalsMohamed RizonProblem statement: The aim of this study was to report the human emotion assessment using Electroencephalogram (EEG). Approach: An audio-visual induction based protocol was designed for inducing five different emotions (happy, surprise, fear, disgust and neutral) on 20 subjects in the age group of 19~39 years. EEG signals are recorded from 64 channels placed over entire scalp according to International … …American Journal of Applied Sciences, Vol. 7, Issue 7 · 31 Jul 2010 · 7,554 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessAll words, across the recordA GAUSSIAN MIXTURE MODEL FOR CLASSIFYING THE HUMAN AGE USING DWT AND SAMMON MAPJ. Nithyashri, G. KulanthaivelThe appearance of a human face rigorously changes with respect to age that makes Age Classification as a more challenging task. The algorithms such as, K-Nearest Neighbor (K-NN), Support Vector Machine (SVM), Radial Basis Function (RBF), motivated many Face Researchers to focus their attention in classifying the human age into various age groups. The Classification rate produced by these existing … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 10, Issue 11 · 20 Dec 2014 · 7,714 accessesView PDFCite