The paper analyzes the mode of organic soybean production supply chain and identifies the information needed to be recorded in each step of producing organic soybean through surveying the actual situation of organic soybean on the Red Star Farm combined with the mode of operation among enterprises, then it ensures integrity and consistency of information flow chain. At the same time, it establi...

The Institution Grand Valley State University is a comprehensive regional university located on the banks of the Grand River twelve miles west of Grand Rapids, Michigan. The university was founded in 1960 as a state supported institution for higher education to serve the populace of central western Michigan, specifically Ottawa, Kent, and Muskegon Counties. Increases in enrollments over the pas...

The population of farms using automatic milking systems (AMS) has grown from the first installation a dairy farm in the Netherlands in 1992 to more than 8000 milking units on more than 2400 farms today The vast majority of these farms are in north-western Europe, with the Netherlands having the largest installed base and Scandinavia showing the fastest growth rate in the past few years (Lind, 2...

After more than half a century mean variance analysis still remains the primary conceptual tool for understanding the trade-off between risk and return and for the definition of optimal investment portfolios. Despite its theoretical appeal practical applications have always experienced major difficulties. Optimal portfolio weights appear extremely sensitive to minor changes in expected returns ...

the background of consideration to local and national characteristics of land preparation management in development plans is recently and also of old. it is of old because it is traced back to human presence in land area and definition of the land and curiosity about life. it is recent because it has been begun in the last 100 years and it started mainly in the half of the past century and afte...

There is seemingly no end to the diffi culties that can arise in the international classroom. Stories abound about issues such as silence, students’ reticence, learner autonomy (or lack thereof), which seem to suggest an unsuccessful transfer of academic knowledge and skills across tasks, contexts and cultures. The current paper will neither offer another problem for us to ponder, nor another s...