USING PARTIAL BUDGETING ANALYSES TO ANALYZE PROFITABILITY OF COMMERCIAL PUMPKIN PRODUCTION, STANDARDIZE BIN SIZE CATEGORIES, AND UNDERSTAND BIN SORTING ACCURACY

Using Partial Budgeting Analyses to Analyze Profitability of Commercial Pumpkin Production, Standardize Bin Size Categories, and Understand Bin Sorting Accuracy

Pumpkins (Cucurbita sp.) are currently sold in retail commercial bins categorized based on fruit size.There are no standards for these fruit sizes, thus creating discrepancies across the industry.Furthermore, there is not a published partial budget analysis for pumpkin fruit yield based on plant area.An observational study was conducted to quantify

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Adaptive geostatistical sampling enables efficient identification of malaria hotspots in repeated cross-sectional surveys in rural Malawi.

INTRODUCTION:In the context of malaria elimination, interventions will need to target high burden areas to further reduce transmission.Current tools to monitor and report disease burden lack the capacity to continuously detect fine-scale spatial and temporal variations of disease distribution exhibited by malaria.These tools use random sampling tec

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