This paper describes the Brimstone Farm dataset used for the comparison of pesticide leaching model performance. The tasks set to the modellers are then described. The soil of the site is heavy clay, in which cracks have a major effect on the hydrology. Data are presented for the leaching of isoproturon and mecoprop from two contrasting plots. Contrasting soil moisture states, resulting from di...

This study attempt to reveal the opportunities for increasing peasant farmers income through snail production in Ghana. The paper stressed that snail production is a crucial means of increasing peasant farmers income, protein supply and utilization of farm scraps in Ghana. This is because, from putting up structure, obtaining snails and feed, caring to harvesting, snail production is very cheap...

We present the implementation and experiments of a Web switch that transforms a cluster-based Web system (Web cluster) with best-effort management policies into a system that gives guaranteed performance to different classes of users and applications.

The extent to which farm families engage in off-farm employment activities is a topic of central importance to understanding the financial well-being of farm households. The degree of financial stress experienced by U.S. farm families is always a concern to policy makers. Yet, policy considerations often ignore the substantial involvement of most farm households in nonfarm labor markets. It has...

BACKGROUND Activation of peroxisome proliferator activated receptor gamma (PPAR γ) in the alveolar macrophages (AM) by selective synthetic PPAR γ ligands, improves the ability of the cells to resolve inflammation. In birds, respiratory macrophages are known as free avian respiratory macrophages (FARM) and show distinct functional differences from AM. The effects of treating FARM with PPAR γ lig...

Prologue Introduction Economics as the core discipline of Farm Management Modelling farm systems for decision making Risk and Farm Management decision Real case studies Environmental concerns Farm Management education

This work adds to the previous literature on networked business incubators (NBIs) by exploring the complex network of relationships originated from a NBI. In particular, social ties (cooperative relations between individuals) and business ties (formal linkages between organizations) are investigated. The analytical framework developed here is empirically illustrated through a case study researc...

Recent advancements in photovoltaic (PV) system technologies have decreased their investment cost and enabled the construction of large PV farms for bulk power generations. The output power of PV farms is aaected by both failure of composed components and solar radiation variability. These two factors cause the output power of PV farms be random and diierent from that of conventional units. The...

We explore the role of farm animals in providing care to different types of participants at care farms (e.g., youngsters with behavioural problems, people with severe mental problems and people with dementia). Care farms provide alternative and promising settings where people can interact with animals compared to a therapeutic healthcare setting. We performed a literature review, conducted focu...

Online detectors form an important part of achieving coordination and synchronization in large-scale distributed applications running in peer to peer systems, the Grid, PlanetLab, and large-scale Enterprise like server farms. Detectors can be used to monitor the up/down status of hosts, the malicious behavior among processes, the availability behavior among hosts, and to estimate the number of ...