Expansion of commercial vegetable production in Kentucky prompted the updating of the 1998 commercial vegetable budget estimates for Kentucky’s major commercial vegetables in 2000. Updates continued throughout subsequent seasons. These estimated returns to land, labor, and management sought to convey a conservative profitability estimate for comparative purposes among existing and potential com...

A wave of Haitian immigration into Brazil began in February 2010 through three northern border states: Acre, Rondônia, and Amazonas. Focusing on the state of Amazonas, the article uses an ethnographic approach to explore the social networks involved in this immigrant issue and examines how Brazil’s Sistema Único de Saúde (SUS) responded to the demands placed by this unexpected contingent of new...

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In 2010, Colorado growers harvested 59,200 acres of potatoes with production valued at $293 million (USDA-NASS, 2011b). Additionally, Colorado was ranked 4 nationally in summer potato yields, 5 in fall yields, and had an estimated average of 390 cwt. per acre (USDA-NASS, 2011a). In the San Luis Valley of Southwestern Colorado alone, where the bulk of the state’s potatoes have historically been ...

N. Kirby, I. Blumenfeld, C. E. Clayton, F. J. Decker, M. J. Hogan, C. Huang, R. Ischebeck, R. H. Iverson, C. Joshi, T. Katsouleas, W. Lu, K. A. Marsh, S. F. Martins, W. B. Mori, P. Muggli, E. Oz, R. H. Siemann, D. R. Walz, and M. Zhou SLAC, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90...

background: ethics is a discipline, which primarily deals with what is moral and immoral behavior. public health ethics is translation of ethical theories and concepts into practice to address complex multidimensional public health problems. the primary purpose of this paper was to conduct a narrative literature review-addressing role of ethics in developing curriculum in programs and schools o...

although, once, in the far past, sending gifts and missionaries was called a type of public diplomacy, today it is manifested as academic disciplines, policy making institutions, and multi-purpose organizations. the most important institutions of these kinds, now, exist in the us, whose purpose is to promote the politics of this country as public diplomacy and to follow local and international ...

a comparison of various health statistics among sweden, the united states of america, and united kingdom reveals that the u.s. is in an inferior situation. this is traced to those acute and communicable diseases which could very easily be prevented. however medical care services require money and this money due to the nature of health care system in the u.s. has to come from the patients. while...