Abstract Established primarily to improve weather monitoring across the agricultural regions of province, Manitoba Agriculture Weather Program (MAWP) began officially in 2005 with funding from provincial government for establishment a network 28 automated stations. The steadily grew 46 stations between 2007 and 2014 as result partnership local commodity research groups. In response flood 2011, ...

Using appropriate devices and scientific methods by coaches and trainers can accelerate the process of sport talent identification and development, and could also provide condition in which capable athletes to be directed in to suitable sport according to their abilities and skills. Former researches in scope of sport talent identification usually have been done in order to determine or normali...

Background The Health Trainers Service is one of the few public health policies where a bespoke database-the Data Collection and Reporting System (DCRS)-was developed to monitor performance. We seek to understand the context within which local services and staff have used the DCRS and to consider how this might influence interpretation of collected data. Methods In-depth case studies of six l...

HARDWOOD MARKET REPORT is pleased to present “Changes and Trends in the Pallet Industry” in this issue, the final of a three-part series. This paper was produced by Robert J. Bush, Associate Professor and Director, Center for Forest Products Marketing and Management, Department of Wood Science and Forest Products, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia; Philip A. Araman, Project Leader, USDA Fores...

To discover the cause of a disease or to decide if a new treatment is effective requires using scientific method. Anything short of critical evaluation leaves the potential for recommending an ineffective treatment or applying an incorrect diagnosis and subsequently the wrong treatment. Proper clinical research takes time, and frequently appropriate financial support and technical resources are...

Agricultural needs in poor, tropical countries differ significantly from those in temperate, rich countries. Yet little agricultural research is performed on products for the tropics. Private sector research is particularly concentrated in rich countries. This is a result of significant failures in the market for R&D, in particular, the difficulty of preventing the resale of seed in developing ...

The importance of using technical progress factors in agriculture varies from one country to another and the influences of these factors on yields and agricultural production are essential. Thus, in this paper we considered necessary and appropriate to achieve the dynamic analysis of the main factors of technical progress in agriculture referring to agricultural technical endowment, fertilizers...