the optimal cropping pattern for sistan water resources management was determined through a goal programming technique within the gams programming environment. results showed that the optimum cultivation area and net profit of the agricultural sector in the sistan region could increase up to 18.1 and 39.8%, respectively, compared to the current status. an increase in the farm irrigation efficie...

canola producers in the province of qazvin were surveyed in order to explore their perceptionabout technical skills influencing the production of canola. based on the perception ofrespondents, the results showed that the contact with agricultural service centers would encouragefarmers to produce canola. the results showed that there were relationship between perception ofrespondents about canol...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the demographics and characteristics of children with Meckel's diverticulum (MD). MATERIAL AND METHODS In this retrospective study, we analyzed the medical records of all children who were treated for MD in the department of pediatric surgery of Tepecik Training and Research Hospital over a period of 10 years (1995-2004). Age, gender, clinical manifestations, diagnostic ...

discovering the effective factors in agricultural students’ academic success was the aim of this study. the statistical population consisted of all 194 junior agriculture students at the university of tehran. the study is of a correlation type with the information being gathered through questionnaires as well as through a study of students’ academic files. there was a positive significant corre...

OBJECTIVE To study the prevalent characteristics and related factors of injuries caused by agricultural machinery in 3 provinces Shandong, Henan and Hebei in China. METHODS A total of 1621 agricultural machinery operators aged between 18 and 60 years old from Shandong, Henan and Hebei provinces were selected by purposive-cluster sampling method in 2009. Demographic characteristics, injury his...

the objective of the present research was to investigate the agricultural jihad organization (ajo) specialists' attitudes towards sustainable agriculture concepts in the east azerbaijan and to find out about its determinants. a descriptive-correlational method was used in the study. the sampling population of the study consisted of all the ajo specialists in east azerbaijan (n=200). a samp...

PURPOSE This paper describes SalHUD, a prototype web-based application for visualizing health data from Puerto Rico. Our initial focus was to provide interactive maps displaying years of potential life lost (YPLL). METHODS The public-use mortality file for year 2008 was downloaded from the Puerto Rico Institute of Statistics website. Data was processed with R, Python and EpiInfo to calculate ...