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Agriculture
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Definition of 'Agriculture'The science of soil cultivation, crop production, and livestock raising. Common names: Agriculture; Land Supply; Land Supplies; Supplies, Land; Supply, Land; Agricultural Workers; Agricultural Worker; Worker, Agricultural; Workers, Agricultural; Agricultural Development; Development, Agricultural |
Sunday, November 22, 2009
Organic contaminants in sewage sludge (biosolids) and their significance for agricultural recycling.
11 Oct 2009
Organic chemicals discharged in urban wastewater from industrial and domestic sources, or those entering through atmospheric deposition onto paved areas via surface run-off, are predominantly lipophilic in nature and therefore become concentrated in ... Read more...
10 Oct 2009
Abnormal fibrosis occurs during chronic hepatic inflammations and is the principal cause of death in hepatitis C virus and schistosome infections. Hepatic fibrosis (HF) may develop either slowly or rapidly in schistosome-infected subjects. This ... Read more...
[General health in Icelandic farmers]
29 Sep 2009
BACKGROUND: There is a limited information on the general health of Icelandic farmers. It has been suggested that it might be worse than among other professions. This is thought to be in part because of the unique work environment of farmers.The ... Read more...
Latest indexed articles for 'Agriculture'
These are the very latest articles for this heading:
- Retroscpective. Norman Ernest Borlaug (1914-2009).
14 Oct 2009 - Newsmaker interview: M. S. Swaminathan. A guru of the green revolution reflects on Borlaug's legacy. Interview by Pallava Bagla.
14 Oct 2009 - Organic contaminants in sewage sludge (biosolids) and their significance for agricultural recycling.
11 Oct 2009 - Variants of CTGF are associated with hepatic fibrosis in Chinese, Sudanese, and Brazilians infected with schistosomes.
10 Oct 2009 - U.S. research policy. Agricultural science gets more money, new faces.
7 Oct 2009 - Environment: The disappearing nutrient.
6 Oct 2009 - [General health in Icelandic farmers]
29 Sep 2009 - Further thoughts on future of animal medicine.
29 Sep 2009 - FDA adds regulations to reduce Salmonella illness from eggs.
29 Sep 2009 - A fence line in time demonstrates grazing-induced vegetation shifts and dynamics in the semiarid Succulent Karoo.
29 Sep 2009 - Effects of hay management and native species sowing on grassland community structure, biomass, and restoration.
29 Sep 2009 - Functional richness and ecosystem services: bird predation on arthropods in tropical agroecosystems.
29 Sep 2009 - Response of the Everglades ridge and slough landscape to climate variability and 20th-century water management.
29 Sep 2009 - Biotech's plans to sustain agriculture.
29 Sep 2009 - Lost cities of the Amazon.
29 Sep 2009 - Pandemic influenza and farmworkers: the effects of employment, social, and economic factors.
29 Sep 2009 - US agriculture research gets priority plan.
29 Sep 2009 - Archaeology: Maya, Khmer and Inca.
22 Sep 2009 - Lack of global population genetic differentiation in the arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus Glomus mosseae suggests a recent range expansion which may have coincided with the spread of agriculture.
16 Sep 2009 - Wonder weed plans fail to flourish.
15 Sep 2009
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Technical information about 'Agriculture'
Definition: The science of soil cultivation, crop production, and livestock raising.
Descriptor UI: D000383
Alternative terms: Agriculture; Land Supply; Land Supplies; Supplies, Land; Supply, Land; Agricultural Workers; Agricultural Worker; Worker, Agricultural; Workers, Agricultural; Agricultural Development; Development, Agricultural;
Allowable Qualifiers: classification; economics; education; history; instrumentation; legislation & jurisprudence; manpower; methods; organization & administration; standards; trends; statistics & numerical data; ethics;
Tree Number: J01.040;
Technical Notes: SPEC: SPEC qualif