The Internet is everywhere. A farmer in rural Nebraska can check the local weather, inspect his New York stock portfolio, email his son overseas, and book an African safari all in a matter of minutes. The underlying technology that successfully connects the farmer to these destinations is a routing protocol, specifically, Border Gateway Protocol, or BGP. BGP is the routing protocol of the Inter...

The study was conducted among the two farmer groups in Bhaktapur and Kavre districts of Nepal. The main objective of the study is to evaluate the differences in belief, attitude and practices felt by the farmers after participation in the IPM FFS. The study has been based on data collected through personal interview with the farmers, focus group discussion, personal observation in the farmers f...

The Branch and Bound (B&B) algorithm is one of the most used methods to solve in an exact way combinatorial optimization problems. In a previous article, we proposed a new approach of the parallel B&B algorithm for distributed systems using the farmer-worker paradigm. However, the new farmer-worker approach has a disadvantage: some nodes of the B&B tree can be explored by several B&B processes....

This paper investigates an important channel through which improved access to market information could increase the prices that producers receive from middlemen. I develop a theoretical model of trade between a farmer and a middleman which allows for the existence of different types of middlemen. The source of heterogeneity is attitudes towards fairness. I provide an empirical test of the theor...

Background: Wheat is one of the most common food allergens in children. The purpose of this study is to define the natural course of wheat allergy in children with dominant gastrointestinal symptoms and identify factors that help predict development of tolerance. Methods: The prospective analysis covered 50 children with positive food challenge results (DBPCFC) and positive wheat IgE test resul...

BACKGROUND Wheat is one of the most common food allergens in children. The purpose of this study is to define the natural course of wheat allergy in children with dominant gastrointestinal symptoms and identify factors that help predict development of tolerance. METHODS The prospective analysis covered 50 children with positive food challenge results (DBPCFC) and positive wheat IgE test resul...

Solids with exchangeable hydrogens are treated with D2O. The free-induction decay in a pulsed hydrogen NMR experiment is then interpreted in terms of the fraction of hydrogens in the sample which have been made mobile by this treatement. Data are provided for the hydrogen of starch in durum wheat semolina.

This study considers a quantity discount problem between a single seller (poultry famer) and two buyers (retailers). The poultry farmer’s inventory level increases due to the increase in the weight of the fowls. The retailers purchase fresh chicken meat from the poultry farmer, the inventory levels of the retailers are therefore depleted due to the combined effects of its demand and deteriorati...

This paper uses the old Keynesian representative agent model developed by Roger E. A. Farmer [Expectations, Employment and Prices. New York: Oxford University Press (2010)] to answer two questions: (1) Do increased government purchases crowd out private consumption? (2) Do increased government purchases reduce unemployment? Farmer compared permanent tax-financed expenditure paths and showed tha...