In order to identify events/activities that are particularly stressful for farmers/ranchers, afarm stress survey based on the proportionate scaling method was mailed to a stratified random sample of 3000 Iowa farmers by the USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service. The participants were asked to compare 62 life events and farm activities to a marriage (assigned a baseline rating of 50), de...

Classification and prediction in agricultural systems are quite useful for effective planning. In this paper, logistic regression modeling has been employed for classification purposes on data pertaining to the area of agricultural ergonomics. Presence or absence of discomfort for the farm labourers in operating farm machineries has been considered as the dependent variable and associated quant...

One of the assumptions underlying efforts to convert cropping land, especially marginal crop land, to plantations is that there will be a net reduction in greenhouse gas emissions, with a gas "sink" replacing a high energy system in which the breakdown of biomass is routinely accelerated to prepare for new crops. This research, based on case studies in Kingaroy in southeast Queensland, compares...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate injury rates, patterns, and risk factors in 4,916 Ontario farm children aged 0-18 years. SETTING 1,765 full time family operated Ontario farms with a husband-wife couple where the wife was of reproductive age. METHODS Injury details were obtained from mothers, while parents and farm operators provided risk factor information retrospectively in a population based mail ...

The Kids and Communities Count Farm Safety Lesson is a follow-up to our Kids Count Lesson that used the North American Guidelines for Children's Agricultural Tasks (NAGCAT) and was previously delivered to nearly 2,000 fifth-grade students in Hillsborough County, Florida. This year, the lesson was administered in two migrant schools and included a parent survey and a presentation of the lesson i...

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 un derstanding of what the technique can be used for and what is needed in order to arrive at an e ciently farmed application This paper consists of these two parts We have sho...

In this paper I will present a summary of Turing’s article “Computing machinery and intelligence” [26] and discuss it. I retrace the ideas Turing presented in this paper and explain their historical context. Also, I discuss the impact Turing’s ideas had on the scientific community when the paper was published in 1950 as well as the meaning they still have today. Throughout this paper, I include...

In most developing countries the process of delivering pesticides to the target (i.e. application of pesticides) is not well understood nor is it generally well managed. A number of factors contribute to this situation, among them are a lack of adequate policies and legislation, lack of education resulting in poor knowledge, lack of research and capital availability, many and varied pest proble...