SECTION ON AGRICULTURE (O) AND AFFILIATED SOCIETIES

Section M-Section O

Section Abstracts: Agriculture, Forestry and Aquaculture

VIRGINIA AGRICULTURE: LOOKING BACKWARD AND FORWARD. Sandra J. Adams, Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services. Agriculture, the number one private industry in Virginia, contributes $52 billion annually to Virginia’s economy and supports 415,000 jobs. Though Native Americans grew crops and instructed the Jamestown settlers in New World agricultural practices, farming in Virginia ...

Introduction to the Special Section on Reputation in Agent Societies

This special section includes papers from the 'Reputation in Agent Societies' workshop held as part of 2004 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Joint Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT'04) and Web Intelligence (WI'04), September 20, 2004 in Beijing, China. The purpose of this workshop was to promote multidisciplinary collaboration for Reputation Systems modeling and implementation. Reputati...

Affiliated bankers on board and conservative accounting

We examine the tradeoff between having affiliated bankers on board and conservative accounting for mitigating debtholder-shareholder conflicts. We argue that affiliated bankers on board provide lenders with private information and control rights, thereby lowering debtcontracting demand for conservatism in public financial reports. We find that firms with affiliated bankers on board have lower c...

Indirect N 2 O Emissions from Agriculture

Agricultural perturbations to the global nitrogen cycle, directly and indirectly, lead to enhanced biogenic production of nitrous oxide (N2O). Direct pathways include microbial nitrification and denitrification of fertiliser and manure nitrogen that remains in agricultural soils or animal waste management systems. Indirect pathways involve nitrogen that is removed from agricultural soils and an...