Farm Credit Competencies Needed And Possessed By Selected Nebraska Young Farmers/Ranchers

5 competencies needed by new baccalaureate graduates.

As nurse educators prepare new graduates for practice, part of the challenge is to ensure that these nurses are capable of functioning in a broad continuum of care with increased responsibilities. To identify competencies needed by new baccalaureate graduates in today's health care environment and determine whether these competencies fall into particular dimensions, a cross-sectional survey des...

Competencies needed by graduate respiratory therapists in 2015 and beyond.

The American Association for Respiratory Care has established a task force to identify potential new roles and responsibilities of respiratory therapists (RTs) in 2015 and beyond. The first task force conference confirmed that the healthcare system in the United States is on the verge of dramatic change, driven by the need to decrease costs and improve quality. Use of evidence-based protocols t...

By ribosome possessed.

“Listen, howwould you like to come on tourwithmynewband?” BennyWilson asked me in the summer of 1965 duringmy final year of graduate school. A few days later, I received a letter from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) with the news that I had been awarded a three-year fellowship to do postdoctoral research at the Medical Research Council (MRC) Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge....

The Impact of Farm Credit in Pakistan

Both informal and formal loans matter in agriculture. However, formal lenders provide much more production loans than informal lenders, often at a cost (mostly loan default cost) higher than what they can recover. For example, the Agricultural Development Bank of Pakistan (ADBP), providing about 90 percent of formal loans in rural areas, incurs high loan default costs. Yet, like other governmen...

Measuring efficiency of the Farm Credit System