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Impact of Soil Fertility in 92 Paddy Fields of Kanto Region
This chapter aimed to measure the determinants of rice yield, from the perspectives of fertilizer nitrogen and soil chemical properties. The data were sampled in 2014 and 2015, comprising 92 peat soil paddy fi...
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Impact of Rice Variety and Cultivation Regime Through ANOVA
This chapter identified the impact of rice variety and on paddy yield in the large-scale farms. The study objects were 351 fields in a farm corporation of over 113 hectares, locating in the Kanto Region, and...
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Path Analysis on the Interacting Determinants and Paddy Yield
This chapter measured the interacting effects of paddy yield determinants using path analysis. The data was sampled in 2014, from 301 paddy fields planted with Koshihikari, from two large-scale farms in Japan....
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Variation in Rice Yields and Determinants Among Paddy Fields
This chapter identified the variation and determinants of rice yield measured by the , from among different rice yields within large-scale farms. Apart from to the paddy yield with 15% moisture, we studied th...
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Identifying the Rice Yield Determinants Among Comprehensive Factors
Paddy production in Japan is currently undergoing a transition, moving away from the former acreage reduction policies of the 1970s to improve the sector’s efficiency and competitiveness. Meanwhile, have...
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Production Efficiency and Irrigation of 110 Paddy Fields in Kanto Region
Irrigation is increasingly important for rice productivity to maintain soil temperature and fertility with the presence of global warming. Meanwhile, rice production in Japan is in urgent need to reduce the co...
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Article
Coagulation ability when separating from cardiopulmonary bypass with and without fresh frozen plasma: a pilot study
Several strategies are employed for administering fresh frozen plasma (FFP) during weaning from cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB). This study evaluated by coagulation function aimed to compare two strategies of adm...
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Local anesthetic spread into the paravertebral space with two types of quadratus lumborum blocks: a crossover volunteer study
Previous work showed that 20 mL of local anesthetic (LA) did not spread into the paravertebral space (PVS) via the intramuscular quadratus lumborum block (QLBi). If spread of LA into the PVS can be achieved by...
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Production efficiency and effect of water management on rice yield in Japan: two-stage DEA model on 110 paddy fields of a large-scale farm
Water management is increasingly important for rice productivity to maintain soil temperature and fertility with the presence of global warming. Meanwhile, rice production in Japan is in urgent need to reduce ...
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A randomized controlled trial comparing paravertebral block via the surgical field with thoracic epidural block using ropivacaine for post-thoracotomy pain relief
We conducted a comparative study to evaluate analgesic efficacy between paravertebral block via the surgical field (PVB-sf), in which the catheter was inserted into the ventral side of the sympathetic trunk in...
