We consider the effect of perceived economic pressures on the ethical attitudes of farmers. We hypothesize that an increase in the economic pressures a farmer faces could result in that farmer being more tolerant of unethical conduct than farmers not experiencing economic pressures. To test this hypothesis, we use data from a survey of 3,000 Missouri farmers with farm sales in excess of $10,000...

Sir—J M Polo and colleagues (June 22, p 2164) report aphasia in a farmer after he was bitten on the left thumb by a viper. He developed swelling and ecchymosis of the corresponding limb. He reported to hospital within 2 h of being bitten, and his status was an absolute indication for immediate administration of polyvalent antivenom, according to WHO recommendations, to avoid the systemic effect...

The upgrade of frequent item set mining to a setup with multiple relations —frequent query mining— poses many efficiency problems. Taking Object Identity as starting point, we present several optimization techniques for frequent query mining algorithms. The resulting algorithm has a better performance than a previous ILP algorithm and competes with more specialized graph mining algorithms in pe...

Bacteria known in animal infectious diseases can cause challenges in human diagnostic laboratories. We present pitfalls in the identification and susceptibility testing of Staphylococcus hyicus, a pathogen that typically causes exudative epidermitis in pigs. In this case, the coagulase-positive staphylococcus isolated from a septic patient was misidentified as Staphylococcus aureus.