English Agriculture Since 1914

Sport and the physical emancipation of English women, 1870–1914

must doctors inform patients of risks in treatment, or of alternative treatments? He rejects the commonly-expressed medical contention that these are essentially matters of technical and professional judgment best left to doctors to decide. Yet these essays show none of the animosity against doctors that some detected in his Reith Lectures; Kennedy's position, rather, is that all such difficult...

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...

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

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...

Educational Values and the English Language Curriculum in Hong Kong Secondary Schools Since 1975

English is an important language in Hong Kong, an international city located on the southern coast of the People’s Republic of China that, for over 150 years to 1997, was a British colony. This paper describes and analyses changes in teaching methodologies in the English language curriculum formally proposed for Hong Kong junior secondary schools from 1975 to the present day, to study how the c...