Yearly production and reproduction data on dairy farms in The Netherlands were obtained to determine whether management information systems significantly improved herd performance variables (management information systems (MIS) effects). The analysis included 357 adopters of a management information system and 357 herds were used as controls. The data comprised years 1987 through 1996, and incl...

Distributed Server Programming using .Net and ArcObjects Track: Application Development Author(s): Brian Flood This paper explores the use of both .Net and ArcObjects in the Programmable Mapping Cluster (PMC), a software framework to ease ArcObjects development over large groups of servers. The PMC makes extensive use of the .Net Remoting architecture to connect all servers in a cluster into a ...

This paper reports a study on the development of the Chinese character recognition knowledge in 2 942 Hong Kong Cantonese-speaking elementary school children. 2 357 Chinese characters in the Revised Chinese Character List (2007) for Hong Kong Cantonese-speaking elementary school children were divided into 36 versions of test booklets to test the school children’s character recognition knowledge...