diversity, accessibility and reliability are the three main factors governing the adoption of information sources by farmers in rural areas. based on the research hypothesis, the existing knowledge and information delivery system in the agricultural sector, functions far below the ever changing nature and tangible needs of existing farming systems. the main objective in this study is to determi...

1. This document is WEC 207 and one of a series of the Department of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Florida Cooperative Extension Service, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (IFAS), University of Florida. First published: April 2006. Please visit the EDIS Web site at http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu for more publications. 2. Emma Willcox is a Graduate Student and William M. Giuliano is an ...

1. This document is HS942, one of a series of the Horticultural Sciences Department, Florida Cooperative Extension Service, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida. Original publication date: July 2002. Revised publication date: August 2003. This publication is included in SP-281, Water and Florida Citrus. Please visit the EDIS Web site at http:/edis.ifas.ufl.edu. 2. ...

Coverage Extension is an important consideration for enhancing the network connectivity without changes in the infrastructure. So, in the existing system in order to enlarge the network coverage in wireless networks, an incentive and a scheduling algorithm are presented. Also considers the impacts in the quality-of-service whenever increasing the coverage. So, the cross-layer approach is used t...

2. Roy P.E. Yanong, associate professor, Tropical Aquaculture Laboratory, Department of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, Florida Cooperative Extension Service, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida, Ruskin, FL 33570-3434; and Ruth Francis-Floyd, professor, Department of Large Animal Clinical Sciences (College of Veterinary Medicine) and Department of Fisheries and Aq...

The University of Georgia and Ft. Valley State College, the U.S. Department of Agriculture and counties of the state cooperating. The Cooperative Extension service officers educational programs, assistance and materials to all people without regard to race, color, national origin, age, sex or disability An equal opportunity/affirmative action organization committed to a diverse work force.. The...

With the prevalence of loosely coupled web service composition in the service oriented infrastructure, distributed security management has become important to offer flexible web security. In our project affiliated with NatureServe [2], we developed a XACML [3, 4] policy oriented security system to provide trust data service to 75 network partners in the Natural Heritage Program [1]. A Horn Logi...

1. This document is Circular 1465, one of a series from the Department of Agricultural & Biological Engineering, Florida Cooperative Extension Service, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida. First published: March 2005. Reviewed December 2008. Please visit the EDIS Web site at http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu. 2. Bruce A. Welt, Assistant Professor, and Jean-Pierre Emond, As...