English Agriculture, Now and Afterwards

Hepatitis C is now curable, but what happens with cirrhosis and portal hypertension afterwards?

Results from the interferon era have demonstrated reversibility of cirrhosis following viral eradication, but only for patients in the initial stage of cirrhosis. Although direct-acting antivirals (DAA) represent revolutionary treatment of hepatitis C, there are currently no studies showing histological effects of therapy on a large number of cirrhotic patients. However, studies involving trans...

The BMA's torture report and afterwards.

Editor's note Sadly, Dr3John Dawson died on the 20th ofDecember 1990. For manyyears Dr Dawson had extensive interest and involvement, via his position at the Bn'tish Medical Association, with a number ofnational and international groups devoted to tackling the problems associated with 'torture and the medical profession'. He was instumental in the production ofthe firstBMA Torture Report and, a...

English and Welsh agriculture, 1300–1850: output, inputs, and income

The Prudent Village: Risk Pooling Institutions in Medieval English Agriculture

The prudent peasant mitigated the risk of crop failures by scattering his arable land throughout his village, Deirdre McCloskey argued, because alternative risksharing institutions did not exist. But, alternatives did exist, this essay concludes. Medieval English peasants formed two types of farmers’ cooperatives. Fraternities protected members from the perils of everyday life. Customary poor l...

Tamil-English Cross Lingual Information Retrieval System for Agriculture Society

Cross Lingual Information Retrieval (CLIR) system helps the users to pose the query in one language and retrieve the documents in another language. We developed a CLIR system in Agriculture domain for the Farmers of Tamil Nadu which helps them to specify their information need in Tamil and to retrieve the documents in English. In this paper, we address the issue of translating the given query i...