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Showing 1 to 20 of 87 for “"United States Department of Agriculture"”.
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Perceptions of Illinois district conservationists toward the use of the hydrologic unit approach for natural resource planning and management
This study is concerned with the use of the hydrologic unit (HU) approach as a management strategy employed in the 98 United States Department of Agriculture, Soil Conservation Service district offices in Illinois. The approach is the management technique or strategy of working with local people to …
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A critical look at nutritional value of commercials on the Nickelodeon Network
… preferences, eating behavior and brand loyalty of youth (Story & French, 2004). The purpose of this study was to evaluate the content of television commercials that occurred during children's programming on the popular children's network Nickelodeon. This study examined the frequency, …
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Microprojectile-mediated transformation of Ornithogalum thyrsoides hybrid A2
This study investigated the feasibility of biolistic transformation for Ornithogalum. Two PDS 1000/He biolistic guns were used in independent studies, one in 1995 at the Floral and Nursery Plants Research Unit of the National Arboretum of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the …
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Assessing public opinion toward homelessness in the United States
… examines the relationship between a variety of demographic characteristics and an individual's feelings and helping behavior towards the homeless population. This study also distinguishes between the way urban residents feel and act towards the problem of homelessness with the way that rural …
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The Impact of USDA Reports on U.S. Dairy Market Volatility
… an event study approach to measure the impact of United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) reports on dairy futures price volatility over January 2011 to December 2023. Dairy futures are a relatively understudied commodity market with a unique pricing structure and settlement procedure. An …
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A content review of precision agriculture courses across the United States
Knowledge of what Precision Agriculture (PA) content is currently taught across the U.S. will help build a better understanding for what PA instructors should incorporate into their classes in the future. For this assessment, the University of Missouri (MU) partnered with several universities …
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Understanding factors related to food waste in the supplemental nutrition program for women, infants, and children (WIC). A qualitative study in Indianapolis, Indiana
… change in individual behavior. According to the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), in 2010, the amount of food wasted was worth more than $161 billion. In a developed country, the highest food waste level is from the household. While the issue of wasting food is a global epidemic, …
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The energy and nutrient content of breakfast meals eaten at school and breakfast meals eaten at home
… a pandemic chronic issue in Western society. Of high concern for modern Western societies is the pediatric obesity epidemic. Different risk factors may affect the prevalence of childhood obesity including eating habits such as consumption of breakfast, a behavior that may contribute to long …
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Sustainable Farming Versus Ethanol: A Comparison of Energy Use
<p>The subsidization of corn-ethanol has proven to not live up to the original promises made when it was promoted as gasoline additive. With research pointing to ethanol as a source of increased greenhouse gases emissions and other pollution while merely changing energy consumption, not decreasing …
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Evaluating the Economics of Gluten-Free Households
<p>Over the past two decades, the diagnoses of gluten allergies and celiac disease has increased significantly. Although there has been no development of a cure for either ailment, these conditions can be managed by the elimination of glutenous foods from a person’s diet. In previous studies, the …
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International economic effects of halting the voyage of CSAV RIO PUELO
On July 31, 2004, the United States Coast Guard stopped the container ship CSAV RIO PUELO off of the Port of New York and New Jersey. The intervention occurred after the United States Department of Agriculture received information that an on board container of Argentine lemons carried a "harmful …
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Biomass Estimation Using the Component Ratio Method for White Oak
… the Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) program of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Forest Service include the Component Ratio Method (CRM). However, testing of the CRM models is needed to validate and calibrate them. The objective of this research was to test and develop a …
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An evaluation of the USDA program, Make Your Food Dollars Count
Make Your Food Dollars Count is a program the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) published to help low-income people improve their nutritional status and maximize the use of their food dollars. This program was implemented in Roanoke City at Mountain House, a special rehabilitation …
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Feeding the South: An Assessment of Food Availability in Rural Mississippi
<p>The overall goal of this project is to investigate Mississippi’s rural food environment by assessing the food resources available to rural Mississippians. The primary objectives were to identify sample locations in each of the four cultural regions of Mississippi and determine the food resources …
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Building a Knowledge Graph for Food, Energy, and Water Systems
A knowledge graph represents millions of facts and reliable information about people, places, and things. Several companies like Microsoft, Amazon, and Google have developed knowledge graphs to better customer experience. These knowledge graphs have proven their reliability and their usage for …
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Iconic Images, Visual Appropriations, and Public Culture: Negotiating the Rhetorical Challenges of the USDA Food Pyramids
The interrelated topics of food, eating, nutrition, and diet continue to represent growing areas of interest in communication studies and related disciplines. Food is essential to our existence, and the images we use to communicate about food are important to public culture. In this project, I …
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Configuration and evaluation of a constrained nutrition dialogue system
… approaches for the prevention and treatment of excess weight gain are ineffective, burdensome, and often times, inaccurate. Thus, we have developed a natural language processing based nutrition application that translates spoken food diaries into nutritional database entries. These food …
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Cost Benefit Analysis of Virginia EFNEP: Calculating Indirect Benefits and Sensitivity Analysis
… the need for a comprehensive economic evaluation of EFNEP, Virginia Cooperative Extension (VCE) was awarded a grant from the Cooperative State Research, Education and Extension Services, United States Department of Agriculture (CSREES, USDA) to conduct a cost benefit analysis (CBA) of nutrition …
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Three screening tests used to evaluate groundwater quality
The recent emergence of the critical problem of groundwater contamination due to materials leaching from toxic waste disposal sites and other sources has had a sobering impact on society. The rash of unexpected contamination has led to a plethora of legislation designed to address this problem. …
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APPLYING HAZARD ANALYSIS CRITICAL CONTROL POINT (HACCP) PRINCIPLES TO MITIGATE AFLATOXIN CONTAMINATION IN MAIZE PRODUCTION IN GHANA
… principle to estimate the cost and benefit of aflatoxin prevention in maize production. It also identifies critical control points (CCPs) across the maize value chain at the producer level. This helps assess where the major contamination occurs at the producer level to help reduce aflatoxin …
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