1Department of Agriculture and Nutritional Science, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T6G 2P5; 2Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Lacombe Research Centre, 6000 C&E Trail, Lacombe, Alberta, Canada T4L 1W1; 3Alberta Agriculture, Food and Rural Development, Western Forage Beef Group, Lacombe Research Centre, Lacombe, Alberta, Canada. T4L 1W1. Received 27 January 2003, accepted 28 Au...

*Corresponding author: Mohamed Fawzy Ramadan, Associate Professor, Biochemistry Department, Faculty of Agriculture, Zagazig University, Zagazig 44519, Zagazig, Egypt. Tel: +20-055-2320282, 002-055-2313940 Fax: +20-055 2287567, 002-055-2345452 E-mail: [email protected] or [email protected] Foundation Project: Supported by Faculty of Agriculture, Zagazig University (Project Number 34-2...

The development of wisdom agriculture with agricultural found Chinese demand. The development of wisdom agriculture has the characteristics of integrity, functional and systematic. The article analyzes the main issues and influencing factors according to the current wisdom agriculture in China, such as the gap between domestic and abroad, wisdom, the wisdom agriculture rural development e-gover...

User model can be defined as a machine-readable representation of user characteristics of a system. We have developed a user model that considers users with physical, age-related or contextual impairment and can be used to personalize electronic interfaces to facilitate human machine interaction. This paper presents a case study of exploiting this Inclusive User Model to personalize an electron...

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Brian K. PETROFF1, 2*, Renata E. CIERESZKO3, Rie NAKAI4, 5, Keith L. WAGNER6, Gen WATANABE4, 5 and Kazuyoshi TAYA4, 5 1Center for Reproductive Sciences, 2Department of Internal Medicine, University of Kansas Medical Center, 3901 Rainbow Boulevard, Kansas City, KS 66160, U.S.A., 3Department of Animal Physiology, University of Warmia and Mazury, 10–619, Olsztyn, Poland, 4Department of Basic Veter...