It may become advantageous to keep human-managed animals in the social network groups to which they have adapted. Data concerning the social networks of farm animal species and their ancestors are scarce but essential to establishing the importance of a natural social network for farmed animal species. Social Network Analysis (SNA) facilitates the characterization of social networking at group,...

Abstract The American Accounting Association and the International to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business, responding calls from business accounting profession, have encouraged teaching data analytics in courses. To help educators integrate this new topic into their curricula, we report on how developed a elective course for our Master Science Accountancy program. This introduces an perspect...

From a rural, sociological point of view no social theories have so far been able to grasp the ontological complexity and special character of a farm enterprise as an entity in a really satisfying way. The contention of this paper is that a combination of Luhmann’s theory of social systems and the actor-network theory (ANT) of Latour, Callon, and Law offers a new and radical framework for under...

We study the formal derivation of a distributed system that models the behaviour of an arbitrary processor farm. A processor farm is a reactive system that consists of a unique master processor together with a number of identical slave processors connected via a communication network. The system reacts with its environment that requires certain service from the farm through the master processor...

This paper investigates the uses of battery energy storage system (BESS) in ac networks highly populated with wind power generation. The investigation includes power system load leveling, frequency stabilization, and provision of reactive power support to the wind farm network. The BESS is connected to the wind farm main hub via voltage source converter, while the wind farm is connected to ac n...

If farmers are risk averse, greater farm income variability should increase off-farm labor supply. This effect is confirmed for a sample of Kansas farmers. Off-farm employment of farmers and their spouses is also found to be significantly influenced by farm experience, off-farm work experience, farm size, leverage, efficiency, and farm-specific education. In addition, farm operators and spouses...