The purpose of this quantitative study was to determine the amount preparation Iowa inservice secondary agricultural education teachers received in mechanics at university level. Secondary School Based Agricultural Education instructors attending Association Educators’ summer conference were given a paper-based survey instrument report their perceptions skills and training they had postsecondar...

Using a unique, national dataset that indicates where students choose to send their SAT scores, we find that college sports success has a large impact on student application decisions. For example, a school that has a stellar year in basketball or football on average receives up to 10% more SAT scores. Certain demographic groups (males, blacks, out-of-state students, and students that played sp...

a Department of Medicinal Natural Product Chemistry, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Hebei Medical University, 361 Zhongshan East Road, Shijiazhuang, 050017, Hebei Province, P. R. China. E-mail: [email protected] b College of Basic Medicine, Hebei Medical University, 050017, Shijiazhuang, P. R. China. E-mail: [email protected] c North China Pharmaceutical Group Corporation, New D...

In the EU-funded CROPS (Clever Robots for Crops) project high tech robots are developed for site-specific spraying and selective harvesting of fruit and fruit vegetables. The harvesting robots are being designed to harvest high-value crops such as greenhouse vegetables, fruits in orchards and grapes for premium wines. The CROPS robots are also developed for canopy spraying in orchards and for p...

Keiko Motoyama, Yuji Nakai, Tomoya Miyashita, Yuichiro Fukui, Maki Morita, Kazutsuka Sanmiya, Hiroyuki Sakakibara, Ichiro Matsumoto, Keiko Abe, Takafumi Yakabe, Nobuhiro Yajima, and Kayoko Shimoi Graduate School of Nutritional and Environmental Sciences, Institute for Environmental Sciences, and Global COE Program, University of Shizuoka, Shizuoka; Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Scien...

United Graduate School of Agricultural Sciences, Kagoshima University, Korimoto, Kagoshima 890-0065, Japan Division of Molecular Biotechnology, Center of Molecular Biosciences, University of the Ryukyus, Nishihara, Okinawa 903-0213, Japan Graduate School of Agriculture, Faculty of Agriculture, University of the Ryukyus, Nishihara, Okinawa 903-0213, Japan Tropical Biosphere Research Center, Univ...

Zhen-Dong Luo School of Science, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing 100044, China; e-mail: [email protected] Jing Chen College of Science, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100083, China; e-mail: jing [email protected] I.M. Navon School of Computational Science and Department of Mathematics, Florida State University, Dirac Sci. Lib. Bldg., #483, Tallahassee, FL 32306–4120, USA; e-mail: nav...

H. Tsuruta1; M. Fukumoto2; L. Bax3; A. Kohno4; Y. Morishita4 1Department of Medical Informatics, School of Allied Health Sciences, Kitasato University, Kanagawa, Japan; 2Division of Toxicology, Center for Clinical Pharmacy and Clinical Sciences, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kitasato University, Tokyo, Japan; 3Pharsight Corporation, Sunnyvale, CA, USA; 4Department of Hematology and Oncolog...

Department of Environmental Life Sciences, Graduate School of Life Sciences, Tohoku University, Aoba-ku, Sendai 980–8577, Japan (M.I., J.H.); Department of Applied Plant Science, Graduate School of Agricultural Sciences, Tohoku University, Aoba-ku, Sendai 981–8555, Japan (A.M, H.I.); and Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology, Japan Science and Technology Agency, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo...