Search Results - Performance Measurement.

Individual and environmental factors influencing adolescents’ dietary behavior in low- and middle-income settings by Verstraeten, Roosmarijn, Leroy, Jef L., Pieniak, Zuzanna, Ochoa-Avilés, Angélica, Holdsworth, Michelle, Verbeke, Wim, Maes, Lea, Kolsteren, Patrick

“…Results: The conceptual model performed well for each component of eating behavior, indicating acceptable goodness-of-fit for both the measurement and structural models. …”
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High temperatures effect on morpho-physiological indicators in common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) plants during the germination and growth in non-optimum season by Socorro Garcia, A., Calderón Pinar, S., Walon Garcia, L., Sánchez Rodriguez, Y., Bergamini, N.

“…The number of germinated plants was measured within the first 11 days after sowing to obtain the survival percentage. …”
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Usefulness of stem dendrometers as continuous indicator of loquat trees water status by Ballester, Carlos, Buesa, Ignacio, Bonet, Luis, Intrigliolo, Diego S.

“…In loquat, however, its use has not been yet assessed. In this experiment performed in a loquat orchard planted with the cv. 'Cardona' during the summer of 2009, the suitability of using stem dendrometers to detect plant water stress was assessed by taking measurements in fully irrigated and trees subjected to a drought cycle of 47 days. …”
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Glukos och leucin som potentiellt hjälpmedel i återuppbyggandet av muskelglykogen efter hårt arbete hos travhästar by Bränngård, Caroline

“…In a crossover design, 11 Standardbred trotters performed a standardized exercise test on two occasions in order to deplete muscle glycogen. …”
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Technical specifications for solid biofuels by Belbo, Helmer

“…Two surveys and six interviews were performed. One survey was addressed to large scale producers, suppliers and consumers of solid biofuels, the other survey was addressed to producers and suppliers of equipment for upgrading and combustion of solid biofuels. …”
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Promoting sustainability through corporate branding : a case study of the Sustainable Brand Index by Broman, Vilhelm

“…The growing interest in corporate sustainability has led to that both the academic field and the business industry have taken initiatives to define, quantify and measure sustainability (Artiach et al., 2010). An increasingly popular method of doing so is by creating sustainability indices, described as systems that measures different organisations’ sustainability performance, ultimately creating sustainability rankings between them (Fowler and Hope, 2007). …”

Evaluation of GRACE derived groundwater storage changes in different agro-ecological zones of the Indus Basin by Akhtar, F., Nawaz, R. A., Hafeez, Mohsin, Awan, Usman Khalid, Borgemeister, C., Tischbein, B.

“…The objective of this study was thus (i) to evaluate GRACE’s performance in two distinctively different agroecological zones of the IB, and (ii) to quantify the trend of groundwater abstraction over 15 years (i.e., from 2002 to 2017). …”
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A scalable crop yield estimation framework based on remote sensing of solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence (SIF) by Kira, Oz, Wen, Jiaming, Han, Jimei, McDonald, Andrew J., Barrett, Christopher B., Ortiz-Bobea, Ariel, Liu, Yanyan, You, Liangzhi, Mueller, Nathaniel D., Sun, Ying

“…We found that MLR-SIF has comparable performance to ML algorithms in US-CB, where abundant and high-quality ground measurements of crop yield are routinely available (for model calibration). …”
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Multi-Trait selection indices for identifying new cassava varieties adapted to the Caribbean Region of Colombia by León, Rommel, Rosero, Elvia Amparo, García, Jorge Luis, Morelo, Julio, Orozco, Alfonso, Silva, Gabriel, Ossa, Víctor de la, Correa, Ender, Cordero, Carina, Villalba, Leonardo, Belalcázar, John Eiver, Ceballos, Hernán

“…Development of improved varieties is based on a plant ideotype which integrates a group of desirable traits independently measured in the field. However, selecting high performance genotypes for several traits simultaneously is a complex process. …”
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Harnessing genotype-by-environment interaction to determine adaptability of advanced cowpea lines to multiple environments in Uganda by Abiriga, F., Ongom, P.O., Rubaihayo, P.R., Edema, Richard, Gibson, P.T., Dramadri, I., Orawu, M.

“…These genotypes were considered desirable for advancement to National Performance Trial for potential release as new improved cowpea cultivars.…”
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Quantifying cost of disease in livestock: a new metric for the Global Burden of Animal Diseases by Gilbert, W., Marsh, T.L., Chaters, G., Jemberu, Wudu T., Bruce, M., Steeneveld, W., Afonso, J.S., Huntington, B., Rushton, J.

“…The general specification of the model measures productivity change at farm-level and provides an upper bound on productivity change in the absence of disease. …”
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Modeling salinity effect on rice growth and grain yield with ORYZA v3 and APSIM-Oryza by Radanielson, A.M., Gaydon, D.S., Li, T., Angeles, O., Roth, C.H.

“…These values are within the bounds of experimental error, therefore indicating acceptable model performance. The model test simulating genotypic variability of rice crop responses resulted in similar levels of acceptable model performance with RMSEn ranging from 11.3 to 39.9% for observed total above ground biomass for IR64 and panicle biomass for IR29, respectively. …”
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Do consumers prefer multidimensional or multiple single-issue sustainability labels? Evidence from rice markets in Germany and Singapore by Checco, Julia, Demont, Matty, Coote, Leonard V., Schulze, Maureen, Permani, Risti, Nuraeni Muflikh, Yanti, Mitchell, Jaquie, Aziz, Ammar Abdul

“…This study examines the performance of the Sustainable Rice Platform (SRP) multidimensional label compared to single-issue labels (Organic, Fairtrade, and World Wildlife Fund) and origin attributes in the rice market. …”
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Effects on production of milking crossbred suckler cows grazing a semi-arid area of Kenya. III. Post-weaning growth of crossbred calves by Anindo, D.O., Topps, J.H.

“…The effects of milking once daily and supplementation (2 kg/head per day) was examined in a 2 X 2 factorial design by measuring the growth rate of the calves after weaning. …”
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The effects of site and provenance on survival, growth, stem form and fruiting of Sorbus aucuparia by Ward, Augusta

“…Some provenances from Southern Britain were better in all UK locations although some had very poor performance in the north and some costal provenances were even low ranking in the south. …”
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Prenatal seasonality, child growth, and schooling investments: Evidence from rural Indonesia by Yamauchi, Futoshi

“…The empirical results show that an increase in birth weight improves child growth outcomes as measured by the height and weight Z-scores, as well as schooling performance as measured by age at start of schooling and number of grades repeated. …”
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Determination of banana bunch, edible fruit pulp, edible dry matter and above ground biomass yield by crop cut by Hauser, Stefan, Taulya, Godfrey

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Determination of plantain bunch, edible fruit pulp, edible dry matter and aboveground biomass yield by crop cut by Hauser, Stefan, Taulya, Godfrey

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Model Comparison and Quantification of Nitrous Oxide Emission and Mitigation Potential from Maize and Wheat Fields at a Global Scale by Tesfaye, Kindie, Takele, Robel, Sapkota, Tek Bahadur, Khatri-Chhetri, Arun, Solomon, Dawit, Stirling, Clare, Albanito, Fabrizio

“…Although the models differed in their performance of capturing the level of measured N2O emissions, they produced similar spatial patterns of annual N2O emissions from maize and wheat fields. …”
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Strategies for improving adoption of soil-fertility technologies in Rwanda by Bizimana, Claude

“…Factors influencing the adoption of soil-fertility technologies (measured by soil testing and use of chemical fertilizers) in key areas of the southern province, where soil-fertility problems are prevalent and potentially impact the performance of the coffee sector, were studied. …”
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