King Ranch Institute for Ranch Management Symposium on Excellence in Ranch Management

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Maintaining the Ranch topology

Topology maintenance, or how to handle the possibly concurrent joining and leaving of nodes, is acentral problem for structured peer-to-peer networks. A good topology maintenance protocol should runefficiently, fully maintain the topology, and should not unduly restrict concurrency. In this paper, wepresent such a protocol for a multi-ring topology called Ranch. The protocol is effi...

Ranch : A Dynamic Network Topology

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Causes of Farm & Ranch Failure

Many farm businesses are managed as one-man shows. Little financial information and almost none of the business decision-making functions are shared with others in the business or the family. There is seldom a plan for management succession or for developing backup management. Thus, when something happens to the only decision maker, many firms either fail or experience a traumatic adjustment pr...

Progressive retinal degeneration in ranch mink.

Retinal degeneration was prevalent in a large group of sapphire and pastel mink (Mustela vison) kept for studies on slow viral diseases. Nearly 78% of those two to eight years old were affected. The retinopathy was equally common in both sexes but more frequent in sapphires (85%) than in pastels (63%), and it was severe more often in sapphires than in pastels. By light microscopy, the primary c...