The aim of this article is to examine the relations between two approaches to the measurement of life history (LH) strategies: A traditional approach, termed here the biodemographic approach, measures developmental characteristics like birthweight, gestation length, interbirth intervals, pubertal timing, and sexual debut, and a psychological approa
An evaluation of the environmental performance of clinker production using sewage sludge as alternative fuel has been conducted.To this end, the life cycle assessment (LCA) methodology has been applied to estimate the main environmental impacts in four different scenarios considering conventional combustion with petroleum coke, the replacement of f
This study estimates off-farm labor supply from farm operators and their spouses using two different estimation procedures Training and data from the 2006 Agricultural Resource Management Survey.A semiparametric model was found to be better specified to study off-farm labor supply from operators and spouses than the parametric model.Contrary to pre
The control system of offshore aquaculture platform was analyzed and the collaborative control technology with edge intelligence was introduced under the open architecture of cloud computing.A distributed Exam Lamps intelligent control mode was established.A general framework architecture of cloud-edge collaborative control system for offshore aqua