Although effective implementation of the Internet technologies has a great potential for improving efficiency and reducing wastage within the fresh produce supply chain. the situation of the Internet usage by SMEs (sm...
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Although effective implementation of the Internet technologies has a great potential for improving efficiency and reducing wastage within the fresh produce supply chain. the situation of the Internet usage by SMEs (small and medium sized enterprises) in the fresh produce supply chain is still unclear in China. As the main players, SMEs haven't been given enough attention from both academics and governments. Therefore, this research attempts to address this issue by, first, investigating the current usage of the Internet and related software by Chinese SMEs in the fresh produce supply chain, and then, by identifying enablers and barriers faced by SMEs to call government's attention. As a part of an EU-Asia IT&C funded project, a survey was carried out with SMEs in this industry from five major cities in China. The results reveal that in the relatively developed areas of China, SMEs in the fresh produce supply chain are rapidly adopting the Internet and software packages, but the level of adoption varies greatly and there is a significant lack of integration among the supply chain partners. Chinese SMEs are keen to embrace emerging technologies and have acted to adopt new software and tools. Given that cost of implementation is not a barrier, their concern over legal protection and online security must be addressed for further development.
Information technology acceptance has received much attention, but little research has been conducted to assess farmers' information adoption. Despite the importance of information, its value will not be realized ...
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Information technology acceptance has received much attention, but little research has been conducted to assess farmers' information adoption. Despite the importance of information, its value will not be realized if farmers are reluctant to accept it. This research aims to study farmers' information adoption in China, in order to provide some decision-making advice for the people and organization who supply the agriculture information. The model of information usage intention has been established based on the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM). A sample of 231 farmers participated in this study. The results show that the factors which influence the usage willingness for information are perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use, learning intention, risk preference and experience in information before. In addition, income and education may also affect the decision.
In this paper 3-D models of combined fixture elements are designed, classified by their functions, and saved in computer as supporting elements library, jointing elements library, basic elements library, localization ...
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In this paper 3-D models of combined fixture elements are designed, classified by their functions, and saved in computer as supporting elements library, jointing elements library, basic elements library, localization elements library, clamping elements library, and adjusting elements library etc. Then automatic assembly of 3-D combined checking fixture for auto-body part is presented based on modularization theory. And in virtual auto-body assembly space, Locating constraint mapping technique and assembly rule-based reasoning technique are used to calculate the position of modular elements according to localization points and clamp points of auto-body part. Auto-body part model is transformed from itself coordinate system space to virtual assembly space by homogeneous transformation matrix. Automatic assembly of different functional fixture elements and auto-body part is implemented with API function based on the second development of UG. It is proven in practice that the method in this paper is feasible and high efficiency.
Based on rural informatization connotation and five essential elements that affect rural informatization assessment, which are development environment, information infrastructure, information resource, information ser...
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Based on rural informatization connotation and five essential elements that affect rural informatization assessment, which are development environment, information infrastructure, information resource, information service system and application of information technology in rural areas, This paper designs an indicator system for rural informatization level assessment. Through AHP method, it sets up the hierarchical construction model of rural informatization assessment and weight of each indicator is calculated. Thus the evaluation method for assessment on rural informatization level is proposed in this paper. It combines subjective evaluation with objective appraisal and will help direct rural informatization management departments with jobs and promotes rural informatization development.
The internal quality of apple is impossible to be detected by eyes in the procedure of sorting, which could reduce the apple's quality reaching market. This paper illustrates an instrument using X-ray and machine ...
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The internal quality of apple is impossible to be detected by eyes in the procedure of sorting, which could reduce the apple's quality reaching market. This paper illustrates an instrument using X-ray and machine vision. The following steps were introduced to process the X-ray image in order to determine the mould core apple. Firstly, lifting wavelet transform was used to get a low frequency image and three high frequency images. Secondly, we enhanced the low frequency image through image's histogram equalization. Then, the edge of each apple's image was detected using canny operator. Finally, a threshold was set to clarify mould core and normal apple according to the different length of the apple core's diameter. The experimental results show that this method could on-line detect the mould core apple with less time consuming, less than 0.03 seconds per apple, and the accuracy could reach 92%.
In order to protect agricultural product information and copyright, this paper proposes an efficient bar-code watermark system with digital signature. The proposed system adopts digital signature to prevent a buyer fr...
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In order to protect agricultural product information and copyright, this paper proposes an efficient bar-code watermark system with digital signature. The proposed system adopts digital signature to prevent a buyer from unauthorized copies and to prevent a seller from forged unauthorized copies. The proposed system also encodes the signature with bar-code and embeds the bar-code image into the original image. As long as the similarity of watermark extracts from the damaged image over a threshold, the signature can be fully recovered. It is a novel idea to bring the bar-code concept into watermark system to protect agricultural product information and copyright. Detailed simulation results show that the proposed system gets much better results than that with error correcting code scheme, and prove that the proposed system can protect agricultural product information and copyright effectively.
The traditional agricultural machine design were represented as 2D drawing,which is difficult to modify,and also not intuitive in the solid way for the form and ***,software,UG-NX3,was used to conduct parameterized de...
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The traditional agricultural machine design were represented as 2D drawing,which is difficult to modify,and also not intuitive in the solid way for the form and ***,software,UG-NX3,was used to conduct parameterized design of stubble cleaner *** parts were designed associatively and assembled *** structure of the whole machine and the spatial distribution of parts can be seen and analyzed *** UG-NX3 circumstance,the designed 3D model can be transformed automatically to 2D drafting which is used in fabrication and *** result proved that computer aided parameterized design can allow dynamical operation,preview and repeated modification of the design,reliably and ***,the optimum design efficiency of stubble cleaner is improved;3D modeling time and2D drafting time is greatly decreased.
Since the germination test is still the main method for evaluating seed vigor of sweet corn, it is necessary to study the rapid methods for evaluating their vigor. First, two vigor levels of 9 super sweet corn and 9 s...
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Since the germination test is still the main method for evaluating seed vigor of sweet corn, it is necessary to study the rapid methods for evaluating their vigor. First, two vigor levels of 9 super sweet corn and 9 sugar enhanced corn hybrids were distinguished by accelerated ageing treatment. Next, their vigor statuses were tested by rapid methods such as electrical conductivity (EC), soluble sugar (SS), volatile aldehyde (VA), dehydrogenase activity (DA) and Q2 oxygen sensing technology. Correlation relationship was analyzed between the above tested values and vigor performances. The results showed that EC, SS, VA, DA, oxygen metabolism rate (OMR), critical oxygen pressure (COP) were all suitable to evaluate seed vigor of sweet corn. Furthermore, VA was optimal for evaluating seed vigor of super sweet corn. DA was optimal for evaluating sugar enhanced corn.
Support Vector Machine based on Time Series (SVM-TS) was applied to predict soil moisture and nitrate nitrogen (NO3--N) content. For the prediction of soil moisture, the statistical result (t-test) indicate that there...
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Support Vector Machine based on Time Series (SVM-TS) was applied to predict soil moisture and nitrate nitrogen (NO3--N) content. For the prediction of soil moisture, the statistical result (t-test) indicate that there is no obvious difference between predicted and observed values in 0-20cm and20-60cm soil layers, and that SVM-TS is capable for soil moisture prediction. For the prediction of NO3--N content, there is no obvious difference between predicted and observed values in 0-30cm soil layer, although the difference in 30-60cm soil layer is obviously, compared to the variability of observed value, a large predicted error is acceptable, SVM-TS is applicable for NO3--N content prediction.
The cherry tomatoes online sorting according to their maturity is an important procedure after harvest. This research proposed an automated cherry tomato grading system base on machine vision. Three images of differen...
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The cherry tomatoes online sorting according to their maturity is an important procedure after harvest. This research proposed an automated cherry tomato grading system base on machine vision. Three images of different angles are obtained from each cherry tomato, allowing the inspection of approximately 90% of the fruit surface. 9 features were extracted from the one cherry tomato images. In order to distinguish into three grades (immature, half ripe and ripe), Principal component analysis (PCA) and linear discrimination analysis (LDA) were used to analyze the features. The PCA results show that ripe cherry tomatoes are distinguished from immature and half ripe ones. 414 cherry tomatoes were tested by the online sorting system. The overall accuracy was up to 94.9%. Furthermore, the grading speed of the sorting line reaches 7 cherry tomatoes per second which meet the actual demand of many farms.
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