The National Coalition for Agricultural Safety and Health (NCASH) in 1988 addressed issues in agriculture and noted "a sense of urgency... arose from the recognition of the unabating epidemic of traumatic death and injury in American farming . . ." This article provides an update to the NCASH conference on traumatic injuries in agriculture, a history on how the facts and figures were arrived at...

Genetically modified crops and foodstuff have been highly controversial for environmental, health, and ethical reasons. The controversies have been world-wide, but most prominent in the European Union, for reasons that include distrust of the regulatory authorities, scientists and technocratic decision making. An informal moratorium in the EU came recently to an end, without solving the underly...

Noise is caused by malfunctioning pixels in camera sensors, faulty memory locations in hardware, or transmission in a noisy channel. Two common types of impulse noise are the salt-and-pepper noise and the random-valued noise. There are many works on the restoration of images corrupted by impulse noise. The median filter was once the most popular nonlinear filter for removing impulse noise, beca...

Biocontrol, or Biological Control, can be defined as the use of natural organisms, or genetically modified, genes or gene products, to reduce the effects of undesirable organisms to favour organisms useful to human, such as crops, trees, animals and beneficial microorganisms. This strategy of control is ecologicaly clean and compatible with different models of agriculture: organic, biological a...

The lake Anasagar is a perennial, shallow fresh wetland situated in the heart of Ajmer city. It is degraded because of anthropogenic activities including input of detergents, agricultural activities, sewage disposal and human settlement around the lake. It is also a major tourist attraction for boating and recreational activities. Trapa bispinosa is the primary cash crop, comprises about 50% of...