Turkey meat is marketed as a healthier alternative to red meat but the necessary investment in integrated turkey projects is 65% higher than for similar broiler projects. This explains the importance of rigorous evaluation of new turkey farms, including their sensitivity to biological...

The quot;Mediterranean Policyquot; of the EU grants freer access and agricultural trade preferences to non-EU countries in the Mediterranean. However, in spite of the trade liberalization process in agriculture on the whole, the value of fruit export from the Mediterranean to the EU has not...

The objective of the study is to identify factors that influence the decision whether or not to get the flu vaccine among nurses in Israel by using the Health Belief Model (HBM). Methods: A questionnaire distributed among 299 nurses in Israel in winter 2005 /2006 included: (a) socio-demographic...

An operational model for evaluating a turkey vertically integrated agribusiness is presented. The main factors affecting profitability are identified as world grain prices and cost of investment. The evaluated agribusiness in Russia can be a profitable enterprise due to value adding power of...

Influenza vaccination has been shown to be cost effective in reducing morbidity and mortality and in decreasing work absenteeism and use of health-care resources. The purpose of this study was to identify predictors and beliefs regarding people's vaccination decision against the influenza. It...

Background The aim of this study is to examine the joint impact of preventive health behavior (PHB) and social and demographic factors on the utilization of primary and secondary medical care under a universal health care system, as measured by visits to the doctor, who were categorized as...

This article introduces the first database for developmental parameters of the herbaceous peony cultivated in a warm climate region. Data on the effect of temperature during dormancy and growth parameters are presented for 2,232 plants of two commercial cultivars exposed to 14 different...

The purpose of this article is to present the key elements for best performance and profitability of Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) management in Matadi, the Democratic Republic of Congo. The research provides an overview of methods and models for integrated planning of a two-phase program: MSW...

We consider the problem of a possible influence of space weather on agricultural markets through the chain of relationships: “space weather” - “earth weather” - “agriculture crops” - “price reaction”. We show that the recently discovered manifestation of the “space weather” -...

A model linking maturity indicators and the restrictions they impose on the apple yield assigned to a long-term storage (AppleLS) was studied. Using a three-step approach “maturity restrictions – parameterization - empirical distribution functions”, parameters of theoretical distributions...