Danish agricultural history ofthe 1920s

Initial effects ofthe grounding ofthe tanker Braer

Objective-To determine if the oil spillage from the tanker Braer had any immediate health effects on the exposed resident population. Design-Cohort study with a comparison against controls, exposure status being assigned on the basis ofgeographical location. Setting-Rural Shetland. Subjects-All those resident on or after 5 January 1993 (day 0) within 4 5 km of the site of tanker's grounding. Co...

Anaesthesia in the 1920s.

At the time of publication of the first issue of the British Journal of Anaesthesia in July 1923, there were not many whole-time anaesthetists in this country, and these were confined to university teaching hospitals. Blomfield (1922) stated that there were 27 specialists at 12 teaching hospitals in London, and a similar situation existed in the provinces. In the peripheral hospitals, anaesthes...

THE NECESSITY OFTHE RECOGNITION OF THE INVALUABLE HISTORY OF ISLAMIC MEDICINE

Publishing Danish Agricultural Government Data as Semantic Web Data

Recent advances in Semantic Web technologies have led to a growing popularity of the (Linked) Open Data movement. Only recently, the Danish government has joined the movement and published several data sets – formerly only accessible for a fee – as Open Data in various formats, such as CSV and text files. These raw data sets are difficult to process automatically and combine with other data sou...

History of agricultural research in India

India as a predominantly agricultural country attributes a major share of its overall development to the agriculture sector. Indian agriculture is a miscellaneous and extensive sector involving a large number of stakeholders. India has one of the largest and institutionally most complex agricultural research systems in the world. However, such a complex research system was not a sudden developm...