Increased disease resistance through improved general immune capacity would be beneficial for the welfare and productivity of farm animals. Classical swine fever (CSF) is a contagious disease in farm animals. The immunoglobulin G (IgG) blocking percentage of CSF virus (CSFV) in serum is an essential diagnostic parameter in veterinary practice. In addition, lysozymes are a part of the innate imm...

With the rapid growth of wind energy installed capacity, optimized maintenance has gained increasingly attentions from both researchers and wind farm owners. Conditionbased maintenance (CBM) has been introduced to the wind energy industry in order to ensure the availability and safety of the wind energy conversion (WEC) system, while minimize the operating and maintenance (O&M) costs. In this p...

Structural transformation is a process by which the relative contribution of nonagricultural sectors to the overall economy rises as agriculture’s share declines in relative terms. In absolute terms, however, agriculture continues to grow and contribute to overall economic growth. Agricultural productivity growth and increased farm incomes are prerequisites for structural transformation. Increa...

This paper proposes a model for strategic maintenance scheduling of offshore wind farms (SMSOWF) in a deregulated power system. The objective of the model is to plan the maintenance schedules in a way to maximize the profit of the offshore wind farm. In addition, some network constraints, such as transmission lines capacity, and wind farm constraints, such as labor working shift, wave height li...

Introduction: In grid-connected research of large-scale wind farms, the problem long simulation time exists in based on detailed model. order to realize fast and transient farm, this paper presents a simplified equivalent model farm transfer function improved capacity weighting method. Methods: This analyzes mathematical turbine, corresponding strategy design simplification, is built according ...

Production agriculture in Rural America has two major problems. The first is that it has long-term excess productive capacity at acceptable prices. The second, accentuated by the recent change in Federal farm program policy, is widely fluctuating prices with their resulting “boom and bust” cycles. These severely damage the economies of communities in which production agriculture provides the ma...

It is probable that ‘The Farm Beneath the Sand’ will come to stand for a revolution in archaeological investigation. The authors show that a core of soil from an open field can provide a narrative of grazing animals, human occupation and their departure, just using DNA and AMS dating. In this case the conventional archaeological remains were nearby, and the sequence obtained by the old methods ...

The following paper advocates an active rural employment policy in order to reduce rural poverty in the development countries and initiate a sustainable development process. The permanent large increases in the population call for a significant number of employment and income opportunities. As the agricultural sector’s capacity to provide employment is limited, the only alternative is the rural...

This paper examines the role farmers' health plays as an element of adaptive capacity. The study examines which of twenty aspects of adaptation may be related to overall health outcomes, controlling for demographic and on-farm-factors in health problems. The analysis is based on 3,993 farmers' responses to a national survey of climate risk and adaptation. Hierarchical linear regression modellin...