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RECORD NUMBER: 31 OF 42| Main Title | Natural enemy risk assessment (NERISK) user's manual / | |||||||||||
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| Author | Messing, Russel. ; Croft, B. A. | |||||||||||
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| CORP Author | Oregon State Univ., Corvallis. Dept. of Entomology.;Corvallis Environmental Research Lab., OR. | |||||||||||
| Publisher | Environmental Research Laboratory, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, | |||||||||||
| Year Published | 1989 | |||||||||||
| Report Number | EPA/600/8-91/203; EPA/SW/DK-92/018A | |||||||||||
| Stock Number | PB92-114990 | |||||||||||
| Additional Subjects | Pesticides ; Risk assessment ; Pest control ; User manuals(Computer programs) ; Documentation ; Expert system ; Agriculture ; Information transfer ; Computerized simulation ; Natural Enemy Risk Assessment System ; NERISK system | |||||||||||
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| Collation | 24 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm | |||||||||||
| Abstract | The user manual discusses NERISK (Natural Enemy Risk Assessment), a computer-aided decision-support system designed to assist the user in examing the potential risks of pesticides to arthropod natural enemies (i.e., predators and parasitoids) in agricultural systems. It is a tool that helps to organize, store, and recall large amounts of information and make it readily available to even novice users. It is also a mechanism to integrate diverse information sources, particularly databases, simulation models, and expert opinions, and to provide quantitative estimates of pesticide risk based on these sources. NERISK is based on a 'shell' expert system called RECOG, and was designed and developed by a team of workers at Oregon State University (Messing et al, 1989). (Copyright (c) 1989 by Russell Messing and Brian A. Croft.) |
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| Notes | "October 1991." Includes bibliographical references. "EPA contract no.: 68-03-3409." Microfiche. |