This study assessed the determinants of intensity of improved rice varieties adoption using the Tobit model and also employed. The Heckman Two-stage model was used to identify the determinants of market participation and its potential impact on farming households’ welfare in three states selected from the three notable rice producing ecologies in Nigeria. A crosssectional data of 600 rice farme...

User and carer participation in health care is central to care planning and delivery. From an educational perspective, their input is beneficial in terms of enhancing the quality of the education process. The study reported in this paper explored the experiences of user and carer participation in nurse education from the perspective of the key stakeholders involved in the process. By pinpointin...

The purpose of this paper is to analyze how different levels of participation, tutorship styles, and metacognitive reflection in an online course can influence the group’s knowledge building. 131 undergraduate students in Psychology and 59 students in the Educational Sciences and Primary Education Sciences participated in the study. Results show that a central level of participation is associat...

The mass emigration of the youth from Moldova including educational emigration, usually without a subsequent return home, has negatively impacted both demographic situation as whole and number students in higher education institutions Moldova. However, immigration issues are not given proper attention possible factor partially compensating or economic migration losses. country’s geographical po...

This paper provides an empirical contribution to learning as participation for newly educated. The unit of analysis is learning as situated in social practices, discussing how and what newcomers learn through participation. They recognize the importance of getting access to apply educational knowledge as knowing in professional work. How they learn is mostly through observations of colleagues, ...

If consumer participation is to be translated from rhetoric into reality, the attitudes of health professionals need to be addressed. Educational strategies can play an important role, but measures of attitudes are needed to determine the effectiveness of these strategies. This paper seeks to establish the Mental Health Consumer Participation Questionnaire (MHCPQ) on psychometric grounds, and e...

political participation is an indication of democracy and political development and legitimacy in different societies. the more participation in a society occurs, the more legitimacy a political system will have. so, the efforts of iranian political system are toward increasing people’s political participation rate. since half of the iranian world consists of women, a survey on the factors affe...

the purpose of this study was to determine factors influencing people participation in rural reclamations plans.the research method was descriptive-correlation and data collected using questionnaire. statistical population of the research comprised 3400 villagers at hoveize county. 246 members was randomly selected using cochran formula and applying random sampling method. validity of the instr...

Krasno and Green have argued that political advertising has no impact on voter turnout. We remain unconvinced by their evidence, given concerns about how they measure the advertising environment, how they measure advertising tone, their choice of modeling techniques and the generalizability of their findings. These differences aside, we strongly agree that political advertising does little to u...

participation and rule of collective wisdom and ranchers’ involvement in decisions has become common practice nowadays. sustainable development can be followed through targeting and leading participation to the preservation and restoration of natural resources. so, participation concepts and its effective factors have to be investigated carefully. this study was conducted to investigate the soc...