Whole genome amplification and sequencing of single microbial cells has significantly influenced genomics and microbial ecology by facilitating direct recovery of reference genome data. However, viral genomics continues to suffer due to difficulties related to the isolation and characterization of uncultivated viruses. We report here on a new approach called 'Single Virus Genomics', which enabl...

Doctor Kirkhorn and Dr Greenlee are with Marshfield Clinic Research Foundation, and Dr Reeser is with Marshfield Clinic, Marshfield, Wis. Doctor Kirkhorn is Medical Director of National Farm Medicine Center, a program of Marshfield Clinic Research Foundation. Dr Greenlee is MESA (Marshfield Epidemiologic Study Area) Lead Scientist, Epidemiology Research Center of Marshfield Clinic Research Foun...

The present study was conducted for isolation, identification and characterization of Clostridium perfringens organism from lamb dysentery in Dinajpur district of Bangladesh. Affected sheep showed clinical signs as dysentery, diarrhea, anorexia, weakness, and dehydration. A total of 20 faeces and rectal swab were collected from different sheep farms of different area of Dinajpur District of Ban...

Farm tractor skidding is one of the common methods of timber extraction in Turkey. However, the absence of an optimal skidding plan covering the entire production area can result in time loss and negative environmental impacts. In this study, the timber extraction by farm tractors was analyzed, and a new skid trail pattern design was developed using Linear Programming (LP) and Geographical Info...

The northern Gulf of Aqaba is an oligotrophic water body hosting valuable coral reefs. In the Gulf, phytoplankton dynamics are driven by an annual cycle of stratification and mixing. Superimposed on that fairly regular pattern was the establishment of a shallow-water fish-farm initiative that increased gradually until its activity was terminated in June 2008. Nutrient, water temperature, irradi...

Events of the 1990s seem to have given the small farm a new lease on life. Organic agriculture offers a means of producing considerable profitability on very small areas even if many small farmers are of necessity only part-time farmers. Opportunities off the farm, however, have enabled owners of small parcels to farm them profitably, or at least sustainably. Urban agriculture is now a respecte...

The technique of the processor farm has become very widely used for paral-lelising applications, often being mentioned without reference to any source. The goal of this work has been to put together a complete and rigorous understanding of what the technique can be used for and what is needed in order to arrive at an eeciently farmed application. This paper consists of these two parts. We have ...

This contribution is based on the personal experiences of the author as a typical crop farmer in Holland in 1925-1991, as a researcher at the Dutch Institute of Agricultural Engineering (19541964), and as the Director of that Institute in the period 1964-1983. In essence, the 20th century developments in mechanized agriculture are considered from a historical perspective. The future of farm mec...