In the literature, there are not yet proposals about metadata models that can store the particular characteristics of e-markets, in order to facilitate users’ access to e-markets. The objective of this paper is to present a metadata model that has been particularly developed to store e-market characteristics. The proposed model is based on the Dublin Core metadata standard, and termed as the DC...

Sarah J. Pethybridge, Botanical Resources Australia – Agricultural Services Pty. Ltd., Ulverstone, Tasmania, 7315, Australia; David H. Gent, United States Department of Agriculture – Agricultural Research Services (USDA-ARS), Forage Seed and Cereal Research Unit and Oregon State University, Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Corvallis, OR 97331; Paul D. Esker, University of Wisconsin, De...

India is an agriculture based developing country. Information dissemination to the knowledge intensive agriculture sector is upgraded by mobile-enabled information services and rapid growth of mobile telephony. It bridge the gap between the availability of agricultural input and delivery of agricultural outputs and agriculture infrastructure. Mobile computing, cloud computing, machine learning ...

SOAP is now widely accepted as the core transport protocol for Web Services but there are still open questions about whether SOAP can really meet the performance needs of business. This paper attempts to address some of these questions by evaluating and comparing the performance of several contemporary commercial SOAP implementations. The reported tests send a variety of SOAP messages to Web Se...

the marketing services and marketing margin of pistachio is reviewed as an agricultural product for export. about 90 percent of pistachio production is in kerman province, from which 60 percent is in rafsanjan. the results show that the share of the country in the world pistachio market is decreased in the last 10 years. the main problems for marketing are storing, packing and transporting.

Agricultural ecosystems provide humans with food, forage, bioenergy and pharmaceuticals and are essential to human wellbeing. These systems rely on ecosystem services provided by natural ecosystems, including pollination, biological pest control, maintenance of soil structure and fertility, nutrient cycling and hydrological services. Preliminary assessments indicate that the value of these ecos...