The STAR level-3 trigger is a MYRINET interconnected ALPHA processor farm, performing online tracking of N 53!#, 58000 particles (N 10*/5 445 per track) with a design input rate of R"100 Hz. A large-scale prototype system was tested in 12/99 with laser and cosmic particle events. ( 2000 Published by Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.

To the careless observer and general critic the making of a law is a very easy thing. But to the actual lawmaker who meets the usual difficulties and encounters the practical obstacles it is a very different matter, and it may be of interest to many to follow the course of a bill from beginning to end. In the first place it may be said that the legislature is only the "machine" through which la...

CONTEXT Crash fatality and injury rates are higher on rural roadways than other roadway types. Although slow-moving farm vehicles and equipment are risk factors on rural roads, little is known about the characteristics of crashes with farm vehicles/equipment. PURPOSE To describe crashes and injuries for the drivers of farm vehicles/equipment and non-farm vehicles involved in an injury crash. ...

One of the five known hepatitis viruses that can infect humans is hepatitis E virus (HEV). The first documented infection that was caused by HEV occurred in 1955 during an outbreak in New Delhi, India (1). HEV is a small nonenveloped particle that belongs to the family Hep-eviridae and the genus Hepevirus. Its single-stranded RNA genome has approximately 7200 base pairs (2). By genomic sequence...

Sunny Day Farm was the home of the highest producing registered Jersey herd in the world at the time this study was conducted. The cows are housed in a freestall barn and manure is removed from the barn using a flush system. The manure treatment system on this farm includes the following components in series: an inclined stationary screen separator, a two–chambered settling basin, and a lagoon....

The evolution of the eFinance Market presents new and changing requirements on web server farm architecture. Web server farms built during the boom years of the web were designed to provide service to a very large number of users, where each request however placed relatively little load on the system. Further, the requests displayed a large amount of statistical similarity, so that caching mech...

In this article an on-farm monitoring approach on udder health is presented. Monitoring of udder health consists of regular collection and analysis of data and of the regular evaluation of management practices. The ultimate goal is to manage critical control points in udder health management, such as hygiene, body condition, teat ends and treatments, in such a way that results (udder health par...

Introduction There are several methods to manage corn rootworms, including crop rotation, rootworm insecticides, and corn rootworm (CRW) transgenic traits. The use of CRW transgenic traits in corn hybrids has allowed farmers to manage CRW without using soil-applied insecticides. However, rootworm populations resistant to the transgenic traits have been confirmed in Iowa, leading some farmers to...

Methods In 2013, ISU FARM conducted two trials in Pottawattamie County that investigated the effect of various tillage systems on soybean grain yield. In Trial 1, a fall vertical tillage system and a fall disking were compared with a no-till system. In Trial 2, a fall vertical tillage system was compared with no-till. Vertical tillage systems are marketed as systems that lightly till the soil w...

times, but more uncertainty seems to be hallmarks for 2008. Agriculture is experiencing the best times since the 1970s. It’s finally a boom for Indiana farmers and agribusinesses. Farm incomes are up. Equity is way up due to a 17% increase in land values. Farm families on average are on their strongest financial footing in 50 years. These better times are being driven by a worldwide surge in th...