Previous research has suggested that farmers are at increased risk for noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL) due to excessive amounts of loud noise exposure from farming equipment. This study was conducted to determine the perceived effects of hearing loss in a small farming population. Ninety-three subjects, ranging in age from 18 to 75 years and actively engaged in the farming industry, were aske...

Organic farming uses almost exclusively biological and natural materials and processes to produce food. The practice aims to protect human health and conserve, maintain or enhance natural resources, with the goal to preserve the quality of the environment for future generations while being economically sustainable. Organic farming has grown rapidly throughout the world in recent years. Currentl...

this study investigated the effects of land size and two leased and private farming systems of machinery on economic efficiency and factors such as total production cost per hectare (ratio of total cost of agricultural inputs and operations to farm size), total income (ratio of product and byproduct value to farm size), yield (ratio of crop production to farm size) and degree of mechanization f...

It is a rare twenty-first century biologist who hasn’t found themselves at some point dreaming of a simpler, less administrative, more collegial time in research. For some, that dream may entail a trip back to the 1950s, when early molecular biology hooligans shook each other down for ideas in the pubs of Cambridge. But for Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the dream lies in the near future and ...

Ultimately, decisions about the need for, and volume of, food production from our own land resources are political ones since agriculture, in general, is dependent for a variety of reasons on substantial Government support. This is especially true of the hill areas and although it is difficult to calculate the total expenditure on agricultural support to the hills and uplands since farmers in t...

The recognition of an animal or a group of animals within a population is important for many reasons in fisheries research. Many types of tags and marks have been developed to aid biologists in recognizing animals (Rounsefell 1963, Farmer 1981). Unfortunately, no one technique has been totally satisfactory from a biological or technical standpoint. In 1983, the National Marine Fisheries Service...

cairostris (Cuvier’s beaked whale) and Mesoplodon densirostris (Blainville’s beaked whale). The authors find that both of these species undertake long, deep dives to capture deepwater prey. Diving is highly regular with most deep foraging dives being followed by an extended period of shallow dives and slow travel and resting near the surface. All foraging dives of both species are considerably ...

In the paper we present detailed analyses of two machine translation systems when applied to documents of a previously unseen domain: agricultural texts from the European Union. The two systems compared are a statistical machine translation (SMT) system using the freely available ISI ReWrite Decoder (Germann, 2003a), and the rule-based machine translation system MATS (Sågvall Hein et al., 2002)...