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Selection of automatically extracted agricultural terms.
Horyu, D.; Ninomiya, S.; Tokyo University of Agriculture, Tokyo, Japan, World conference on agricultural information and IT, IAALD AFITA WCCA 2008, Tokyo University of Agriculture, Tokyo, Japan, 24 - 27 August, 2008, 2008, pp 435-439, 10 ref. Text mining is powerful tool to glean clues from huge amounts of computerized text data. It is used extensively in various areas. Areas associated with agriculture, forestry and fisheries are no exception. In text mining of documents of a specific area, e...
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Development of agricultural vocabulary to enable simple and effective searching for agricultural information.
Okabe, A.; Takezaki, A.; Saito, M.; Tokyo University of Agriculture, Tokyo, Japan, World conference on agricultural information and IT, IAALD AFITA WCCA 2008, Tokyo University of Agriculture, Tokyo, Japan, 24 - 27 August, 2008, 2008, pp 441-447, 6 ref. This paper describes the development of agricultural vocabulary in both Japanese and English to enable simple and effective searching for agricultural information. In 2001, we cooperated with the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in the AGROVOC proj...
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Development of a dictionary for the morpheme analysis of agricultural information.
Takezaki, A.; Saito, M.; Okabe, A.; Tokyo University of Agriculture, Tokyo, Japan, World conference on agricultural information and IT, IAALD AFITA WCCA 2008, Tokyo University of Agriculture, Tokyo, Japan, 24 - 27 August, 2008, 2008, pp 449-453, 6 ref. This paper describes the dictionary we have developed for the morpheme analysis of agricultural bibliographical information. We have found inaccuracies in the automatically indexed records of the Japan Agricultural Science Index (JASI) provided by the Tsu...
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Document delivery services of the Japanese Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Research Institutes from 2001 to 2008. - The changing needs and practices of researchers.
Hayashi, T.; Tokyo University of Agriculture, Tokyo, Japan, World conference on agricultural information and IT, IAALD AFITA WCCA 2008, Tokyo University of Agriculture, Tokyo, Japan, 24 - 27 August, 2008, 2008, pp 875-881, 3 ref. Agriculture, Forestry, and Fisheries (MAFF) in Japan. They all use library services, mostly database and document delivery services provide by the research institutes and the Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Research Information Center (AFFRIC). The re...
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Analyzing the use of e-commerce by agribusiness firms in the United Arab Emirates.
Gheblawi, M. S.; Muhammad, S.; Jenaibi, F. M.; Tokyo University of Agriculture, Tokyo, Japan, World conference on agricultural information and IT, IAALD AFITA WCCA 2008, Tokyo University of Agriculture, Tokyo, Japan, 24 - 27 August, 2008, 2008, pp 903-906, 5 ref. The Internet has the potential to improve the economic performance of agricultural marketing systems. Since the concept of globalization has become real with the development of the Internet and e-commerce, the number of online users along with buying/sell...
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Electronic identification of pigs in Thailand.
Suriyasomboon, A.; Chavananikul, V.; Tokyo University of Agriculture, Tokyo, Japan, World conference on agricultural information and IT, IAALD AFITA WCCA 2008, Tokyo University of Agriculture, Tokyo, Japan, 24 - 27 August, 2008, 2008, pp 1059-1062, 5 ref. The aim of this study was to investigate the readability and retention rate of low and high, radio frequency identification system (LF and HF-RFID), ear tags of pigs in Thailand. In total of 150 terminal pigs (Landrace × Largewhite × Duroc) were divided i...
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Use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) among agri-based entrepreneurs in Malaysia.
Md Salleh Hassan; Musa Abu Hassan; Bahaman Abu Samah; Narimah Ismail; Hayrol Azril, M. S.; Tokyo University of Agriculture, Tokyo, Japan, World conference on agricultural information and IT, IAALD AFITA WCCA 2008, Tokyo University of Agriculture, Tokyo, Japan, 24 - 27 August, 2008, 2008, pp 753-762, 17 ref. This paper focuses on the status of ICT usage among agri-based entrepreneurs in Malaysia. The objectives of the study: (1) to know the purpose of using ICT among agri-based entrepreneurs; (2) to know the level of ICT usage among agri-based entrepreneurs; ...
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Automation integration for Taiwan country-chicken farm management using field server.
Wan Yenu; Yu SunMing; Huang JinWen; Yang JaShang; Tsai ChingHsin; Tokyo University of Agriculture, Tokyo, Japan, World conference on agricultural information and IT, IAALD AFITA WCCA 2008, Tokyo University of Agriculture, Tokyo, Japan, 24 - 27 August, 2008, 2008, pp 143-150, 8 ref. Automation plays an increasingly important role in contemporary agriculture, particularly in relation to sustainable agriculture. In Taiwan, raising "country-chickens" is an important business but is less automated than other sectors of the poultry busine...
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Enhancement of plant shape classification power by combining size-independent shape analyses with size factors.
Ninomiya, S.; Oide, M.; Tokyo University of Agriculture, Tokyo, Japan, World conference on agricultural information and IT, IAALD AFITA WCCA 2008, Tokyo University of Agriculture, Tokyo, Japan, 24 - 27 August, 2008, 2008, pp 17-23, 17 ref. This study proposes an approach to enhance plant shape discrimination power. The quantitative evaluation of plant shape, such as for leaf, fruit, seed, and kernel shapes, in plant breeding and genetic resource management is important, and several scientis...
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PCRANCH: cow-calf herd simulation system.
Oltjen, J. W.; Ahmadi, A.; Romera, A. J.; Drake, D. J.; Woodward, S. J. R.; Tokyo University of Agriculture, Tokyo, Japan, World conference on agricultural information and IT, IAALD AFITA WCCA 2008, Tokyo University of Agriculture, Tokyo, Japan, 24 - 27 August, 2008, 2008, pp 123-126, 1 ref. PCRANCH is a computer program for simulating cow-calf herd dynamics over a long time horizon. It is written in the C++ programming language and runs under the Windows operating system. PCRANCH consists of three components. The first component is the input...
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