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ESTIMATING INVESTMENT RIGIDITY WITHIN A THRESHOLD REGRESSION FRAMEWORK: THE CASE OF U.S. HOG PRODUCTION SECTOR [PDF]
As the U.S. hog production sector becomes ever more specialized, the importance of capital inputs has heightened. Given that it is costly to adjust the capital stock and that the associated adjustment cost function may exhibit cost asymmetries between ...
Boetel, Brenda L. +2 more
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Psychology &Marketing, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We examine how the processing of social information for identity‐driven consumption choices is moderated by individual differences in the psychological management of multiple identities. We specifically show that consumers who experience their multiple identities as more incompatible—or low identity integrators—are less likely to conform to ...
Kathrin J. Hanek, Stephen M. Garcia
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A dinâmica locacional da avicultura e suinocultura no Centro-Oeste brasileiro
Economia Aplicada, 2002 With a view to research location dynamics for poultry and hog companies in Brazilian Midwest, an survey was carried out about location decision-making. Among the main results, it's highlighted that only the characteristic businessmen goal has presented ...
Leopoldo Viriato Saboya
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Fermented and Unfermented Cocoa Beans for Quality Identification Using Image Features
JOIV: International Journal on Informatics VisualizationFermented cocoa bean products are one of the high-quality requirements of the cocoa processing industry. On an automated industrial scale, early identification of cocoa bean quality is essential in the processing industry. This study aims to identify the
Basri Basri +3 more
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On the Design and Analysis of Multiple View Descriptors [PDF]
, 2013 We propose an extension of popular descriptors based on gradient orientation histograms (HOG, computed in a single image) to multiple views. It hinges on interpreting HOG as a conditional density in the space of sampled images, where the effects of ...
Balzer, Jonathan +4 more
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Oikos, EarlyView.The ability of plants to attract pollinators is context‐dependent, influenced by floral traits, abundance, and resources from the plant community. Indirect interactions through shared pollinators, from competition to facilitation, may lead to varied reproductive outputs in plants, and the mechanisms behind these interactions remain to be fully ...
Marsal D. De Amorim +6 more
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Modelling the Asymmetric Volatility in Hog Prices in Taiwan: The Impact of Joining the WTO [PDF]
Prices in the hog industry in Taiwan are determined according to an auction system. There are significant differences in hog prices before, during and after joining the World Trade Organization (WTO). The paper models growth rates and volatility in daily
Chang, C-L., Chen, M.-G., Huang, B-W.
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How economic policy uncertainty affect the scale-up of hog breeding in China?
Agricultural Economics (AGRICECON)In recent years, China has promoted large-scale hog farming through various approaches. However, this scale-up process may be affected by economic policy uncertainty.
Chunlei Li +3 more
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Different Approaches for Face Authentication as Part of a Multimodal Biometrics System
Advances in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 2018 This paper describes different approaches for the face authentication from the features and classification abilities point of view. Authors compare two types of features - Histogram of Oriented Gradients (HOG) and Local Binary Patterns (LBP) including ...
Jaromir Tovarek +5 more
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People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract The future of land use in the UK uplands is highly debated, with growing interest in increasing tree cover and other land use changes, alongside a desire to maintain traditional land use patterns and practices. Treescape expansion is likely to result in synergies and trade‐offs between different outcomes, so integrating stakeholder preferences
Melissa Minter +6 more
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