This article aims at: (1) describing the existence and transformation of small-scale farmers; (2) identifying the problems of small-scale farmers related to the land tenure pattern, farming system, and institutional aspect; and (3) recommending the policy for small-scale farmers empowerment, case of sub-urban area of Bandung municipality.The resear

We propose a novel Mean-Shift method for data clustering, called Robust Mean-Shift (RMS).A new update equation for point iterates is proposed, mixing the ones of the standard Mean-Shift (MS) and the Blurring Mean-Shift (BMS).Despite its simplicity, the proposed method has not been studied so far.RMS can be set up in both a kernel-based and a neares

Impaired invasion of extravillous trophoblasts and severe oxidative stress manifest the poor placentation in preeclampsia, which is life-threatening and more than a hypertensive disease of pregnancy.Previous studies have reported that G read more protein-coupled receptor kinases (GRKs) play a key role in initiating hypertension and hypertensive ren

Image classification is one of the key technologies of content-based image retrieval, and it is also the focus and hotspot of image content analysis research in recent years.Through the image processing read more and analysis technology to automatically analyze the image content to complete the management and retrieval of images, this process is th