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Software Engineering Techniques Applied to Agricultural Systems presents cutting-edge software engineering techniques for designing and implementing better agricultural software systems based on the object-oriented paradigm and the Unified Modeling Language (UML). The book is divided in two parts: the first part presents concepts of the object-oriented paradigm and the UML notation of these concepts, and the second part provides a number of examples of applications that use the material presented in the first part. The examples presented illustrate the techniques discussed, focusing on how to construct better models using objects and UML diagrams. More advanced concepts such as distributed systems and examples of how to build these systems are presented in the last chapter of the book.

The book presents a step-by-step approach for modeling agricultural systems, starting with a conceptual diagram representing elements of the system and their relationships. Furthermore, diagrams such as sequential and collaboration diagrams are used to explain the dynamic and static aspects of the software system.

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This digital document is an article from The Geographical Review, published by American Geographical Society on October 1, 2002. The length of the article is 7891 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the author: Since the early 1980s some 40,000 acres of forested land have been cleared and placed under cultivation by Mennonite farmers near the small town of La Crete in northern Alberta's Peace River district. This incipient agriculture has been accompanied by dramatic increases in road building and home construction and by the establishment of churches and schools. The principal force behind the acquisition of land has been a desire of families to have homes in rural areas where they can enjoy lifestyles based on traditional Mennonite values. Because most new farmers cannot earn a living in the district from agriculture alone, they must rely on the wood industries to supplement their incomes. Demand is building for the province to open still more land, but disagreements between the government and the Mennonite community about the most appropriate location for developing new farms has put further expansion on hold until the conflict can be resolved. Keywords: agricultural expansion, Alberta, Canada, Mennonit es.

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Title: Agricultural expansion in Northern Alberta.
Author: Dawn Bowen
Publication: The Geographical Review (Refereed)
Date: October 1, 2002
Publisher: American Geographical Society
Volume: 92Issue: 4Page: 503(23)

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This digital document is an article from National Underwriter Property & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management, published by The National Underwriter Company on September 1, 1997. The length of the article is 593 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the supplier: Crop Growers Corp.'s 'VisAg' software was originally produced to assist insurance agents deliver their products and expand their market base. The geographic information system-technology-based software allows farmers to convert their aerial maps into digitized color maps and to input the software for field usage so that cost of labor can be calculated. Crop Growers Corp. was acquired by Fireman's Fund recently.

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Title: VisAg software aids agricultural farmers.(Crop Growers Corp. product)
Author: Stephanie D. Esters
Publication: National Underwriter Property & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 1, 1997
Publisher: The National Underwriter Company
Volume: v101Issue: n35Page: p17(1)

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Title: 9/11 and agricultural security.
Author: Aaron Leviten
Publication: Florida Bar Journal (Magazine/Journal)
Date: November 1, 2003
Publisher: Florida Bar
Volume: 77Issue: 10Page: 64(5)

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This book presents an up-to-date review of advances in the mathematical modeling of agricultural systems. It covers a broad spectrum of problems and applications based on internet and communications technology, as well as methodological approaches based on the integration of different simulation and data management tools. Using real-world cases, each chapter presents a detailed solution of a problem in a particular field. This book demonstrates that regardless of the nature of the problem and the application domain, modeling is a central and important activity in the process of developing agricultural systems.

Researchers and graduate students in the fields of agriculture and environmental studies will benefit from this book. It will also serve as an excellent reference for managers, team leaders, developers and modelers of agricultural and environmental systems and researchers in the applied computation field.

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Title: South Dakota agricultural indicators.
Publication: South Dakota Business Review (Newsletter)
Date: March 1, 2004
Publisher: The Business Research Bureau
Volume: 62Issue: 3Page: 11(1)

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Title: Distribution and occurrence of selected pesticides in urban and agricultural areas: a comparison between central Alabama and national data sets.
Author: James L. Robinson
Publication: Journal of the Alabama Academy of Science (Refereed)
Date: July 1, 2003
Publisher: Alabama Academy of Science
Volume: 74Issue: 3-4Page: 233(13)

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Title: South Dakota agricultural indicators.
Publication: South Dakota Business Review (Newsletter)
Date: June 1, 2004
Publisher: The Business Research Bureau
Volume: 62Issue: 4Page: 11(1)

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This digital document is an article from Validation Times, published by Washington Information Source on January 1, 2002. The length of the article is 1964 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Nothing new in final guidance, but key clarifications could aid compliance efforts.(software validation guidelines from Food and Drug Administration's Center for Devices)
Author: Kelly Huegel
Publication: Validation Times (Newsletter)
Date: January 1, 2002
Publisher: Washington Information Source
Volume: 4Issue: 1Page: NA

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Title: Mean spillover effects in agricultural prices: evidence from changes in policy regimes.
Author: Nicholas Apergis
Publication: International Advances in Economic Research (Refereed)
Date: February 1, 2003
Publisher: Atlantic Economic Society
Volume: 9Issue: 1Page: 69(10)

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Title: US agricultural biotechnology sales to advance nearly 6 percent annually to 2006.
Publication: Research Studies - Freedonia Group (Magazine/Journal)
Date: August 26, 2002
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Page: 3(2)

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This digital document is an article from Endangered Species Update, published by University of Michigan, School of Natural Resources on March 1, 2003. The length of the article is 5082 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Agricultural scientists are about agriculture and conservation scientists are wrong about conservation: as delivered to the Ecological Society of America symposium on agroecology. (Opinion).
Author: John Vandermeer
Publication: Endangered Species Update (Newsletter)
Date: March 1, 2003
Publisher: University of Michigan, School of Natural Resources
Volume: 20Issue: 2Page: 53(11)

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Title: South Dakota agricultural indicators.
Publication: South Dakota Business Review (Newsletter)
Date: September 1, 2004
Publisher: The Business Research Bureau
Volume: 63Issue: 1Page: 11(1)

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Title: GENEDATA DEBUTS TWO MODULES FOR SCREENER SOFTWARE SYSTEM.(Screener Condenser and Screener Analyst )(Brief Article)
Publication: Productivity Software (Newsletter)
Date: January 1, 2003
Publisher: Worldwide Videotex
Volume: 16Issue: 1Page: NA

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This digital document is a journal article from Environmental Modelling and Software, published by Elsevier in 2007. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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In this study, the impacts of different agricultural policies on agricultural production and nutrient leaching from agricultural land are evaluated using the economic DREMFIA agricultural sector model and the field-scale nutrient transport model ICECREAM. DREMFIA simulates competitive markets of agricultural products and includes an evolutionary scheme of technology diffusion which explicitly considers farm investments, evolving farm size structure and technological change. The technology diffusion model allows self-enforcing patterns of technical change driven by the spread of information and farmers' knowledge related to different technological alternatives. Hence, the long-term changes in agriculture due to policy changes may be essentially larger than those predicted by traditional static equilibrium models. Larger potential for changes in production provides a larger perspective for evaluation of environmental impacts. The modelled variables in ICECREAM are nitrogen and phosphorus losses in surface run-off and percolation. The considered environmental effect is eutrophication of surface waters. In this paper, the modelling strategy will be presented and highlighted using two case-study catchments with varying environmental conditions and land use. ... Read more

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The Object Constraint Language (OCL) is a subset of the well-known Unified Modeling Language (UML) that allows specifying constraints over entities representing concepts from the application domain. The purpose of this paper is to describe a specific extension of OCL to model spatial constraints of Environmental Information Systems (EIS). These new features are applied to the agricultural spreading of organic matter. In this context, it is important to model a set of spatial constraints that define precisely where spreading can take place. For example, organic matters can never be spread inside certain natural areas. At present, some tools allow producing integrity checking mechanisms in different languages (Java, C#, SQL, etc.) from specifications of non-spatial constraints expressed in OCL. For instance, the SQL code generated by OCL2SQL can be used to check if a database verifies constraints or to forbid inserting data that do not verify them. In order to check spatial constraints in EIS, we implemented the ''Spatial OCL'' proposed in this paper into an extension of OCL2SQL. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Environmental Health Perspectives, published by Thomson Gale on June 1, 2006. The length of the article is 6462 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Proximity to crops and residential exposure to agricultural herbicides in Iowa.(Research)
Author: Mary H. Ward
Publication: Environmental Health Perspectives (Magazine/Journal)
Date: June 1, 2006
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 114Issue: 6Page: 893(5)

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