Reasons behind the failure and success of large-scale information systems projects continue to intrigue researchers. In particular in the airline industry very successful (passenger reservation) systems have been built which have totally changed the competitive arena of the industry. On the cargo side however attempts to implement large-scale community systems have largely failed across the glo...

agricultural practices always need accurate information about occurrence of particular developmental stages. data from planting dates trials conducted over the kabotar-abad agricultural research station, isfahan during 2003-2009 were used to develop models for estimating developmental stages duration of sofea safflower variety. to model duration of each developmental stage, duration of each dev...

Frederik Leliaert, David R. Smith, Hervé Moreau, Matthew D. Herron, Heroen Verbruggen, Charles F. Delwiche, and Olivier De Clerck 1Phycology Research Group, Biology Department, Ghent University 9000, Ghent, Belgium 2Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, Evolutionary Biology Program, Department of Botany, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z4, Canada 3Observatoi...

INTRODUCTION Vegetation and livestock responses from a 25 year (1982-2006) grazing system and stocking rate study in the northern mixed-grass prairie at the USDA-Agricultural Research Service, High Plains Grasslands Research Station near Cheyenne, Wyoming are presented here. This study was longest known grazing system X stocking rate study in North America and was one of the few studies to use ...

J. Skousen and J. Sencindiver, Division of Plant and Soil Sciences, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV 26506-6108; K. Owens, Resolve Environmental Services, Monroe, NC 28112; S. Hoover, Natural Resources Conservation Service, Middlebourne, WV 26149. Scientific contribution No. 2647 from the West Virginia Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station, Morgantown. This research was funded by...

1 Department of Entomology Louisiana Agricultural Experiment Station and Louisiana State University Agricultural Center Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA 2 Laboratory for Microbiological Control, All Russian Institute for Plant Protection, St. Petersburg Pushkin, Russia 3 Laboratory of Cytology of Unicellular Organisms, Institute of Cytology, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia 4 Labo...

Niteen N. Kadam, Anandhan Tamilselvan, Lovely M.F. Lawas, Cherryl Quinones, Rajeev N. Bahuguna, Michael J. Thomson, Michael Dingkuhn, Raveendran Muthurajan, Paul C. Struik, Xinyou Yin, and S.V. Krishna Jagadish International Rice Research Institute, Metro Manila, The Philippines Centre for Crop Systems Analysis, Department of Plant Sciences, Wageningen University and Research, 6700 AK Wageninge...

Department of Plants, Soils, and Biometeorology, Utah State University, Logan, Utah 84322-4820, Department of Agronomy, Louisiana Agricultural Experiment Station, Louisiana State University Agricultural Center, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803-2110, Department of Plant and Soil Sciences, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware 19717-1303, USDA-ARS, U.S. Salinity Laboratory, 450 Big Springs Road, R...