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Agriculture employed 125,000 people in 2010, which is a drop of 30 percent from 2000. [3] A study to examine job resources, work engagement and Finnish dairy farmers' preferences concerning methods to enhance overall well-being while working on farms was conducted.
Set-aside program. In United States agricultural policy, the set-aside program (still in use in some areas today) was a program under which farmers were required to set aside a certain percentage of their total planted acreage and devote this land to approved conservation uses (such as grasses, legumes, and small grain which is not allowed to ...
The Program for Climate Model Diagnosis and Intercomparison ( PCMDI) is a program at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, California. [1] Livermore is in the San Francisco Bay Area in the United States. It is funded by the Regional and Global Climate Modeling Group (RGCM) and the Atmospheric System Research (ASR) programs of ...
World map of GMO agriculture (hectares) [1] The regulation of genetic engineering varies widely by country. Countries such as the United States, Canada, Lebanon and Egypt use substantial equivalence as the starting point when assessing safety, while many countries such as those in the European Union, Brazil and China authorize GMO cultivation ...
Homology modeling, also known as comparative modeling of protein, refers to constructing an atomic-resolution model of the " target " protein from its amino acid sequence and an experimental three-dimensional structure of a related homologous protein (the " template "). Homology modeling relies on the identification of one or more known protein ...
The NASA Orbital Debris Program Office is located at the Johnson Space Center and is the lead NASA center for orbital debris research. It is recognized world-wide for its leadership in addressing orbital debris issues. The NASA Orbital Debris Program Office has taken the international lead in conducting measurements of the environment and in ...
Michael R. Taylor is an American lawyer who has played leadership roles in the US Food and Drug Administration, agrochemical company Monsanto, and law firm King & Spalding. He currently co-chairs the board of STOP Foodborne Illness, a non-profit that supports victims of serious illness and their families in efforts to strengthen food safety ...
Quantitative microbiological risk assessment [1] (QMRA) is the process of estimating the risk from exposure to microorganisms . The process involves measuring known microbial pathogens or indicators and running a Monte Carlo simulation to estimate the risk of transfer. [1] If a dose-response model is available for the microbe, it be used to ...