The correlation between the performance of attributes and the overallsatisfaction such as they are perceived by the customers is often used tocalculate the importance of attributes in the crisp case. Recently, the methodwas extended, based on the standard Zadeh extension principle, to the fuzzycase, taking into account the specificity of the human thinking. Thedifficulties of calculation are im...

This paper describes a semantic extension to the Mathematical Services Query Language (MSQL). MSQL is a language for querying registry-published mathematical Web service descriptions expressed in the Mathematical Services Description Language (MSDL). The semantic extension allows queries in MSQL to be based on the underlying semantics of service descriptions; the MSQL engine processes these que...

Farmers need up to date information on efficient use and management of labour for agricultural production. Yet, they lack adequate and needed information. Hence, this study was undertaken to explore the sources and use of labour information by farmers in southwestern Nigeria. Multi-stage sampling procedure was used to select respondents for the study. Primary data were collected to elicit infor...

In today's turbulent business environment, organizations face the need to rapidly respond to demands, explore new opportunities, apply evolving technologies, and create novel competitive advantages. Knowledge Management (KM) and Organizational Entrepreneurship (OE) are two strategic tools through which companies can concurrently improve their competitive advantage while seeking new potential op...

E-extension as a modern mode of communication can be used to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of extension services for agricultural sustainability. E-extension is the delivery of extension services using the Internet and the latest information communication technologies (ICTs), which allow networking, online sharing, and collaboration. Extension workers are a key factor in conducting a...

Agricultural extension services have been playing a central role in transformation process of agricultural sector in Nigeria but there are challenges which affect the quality of service delivery especially increasing cost of services and poor funding and therefore, promoting emergence of new extension strategies offered by private sector . The study investigated the perception of maize crop far...

Ronald S. Jarmin is with the Center for Economic Studies, U.S. Bureau of the Census, Washington, D.C. Overview This paper presents preliminary results from an investigation of the effects of manufacturing extension on the productivity dynamics of client plants. Previous econometric studies of manufacturing extension had very little time series information. This limited what researchers could sa...

investments in the extension of health insurance coverage, the strengthening of public health services, as well as primary care and better hospitals, highlights the emerging role of healthcare as part of china’s new growth regime, based on an expansion of services, and redistributive policies. such investments, apart from their central role in terms of relief for low-income people, serve to reb...

BACKGROUND Although mothers are the fundamental unit of interventions in Health Extension Program in Ethiopia, their experiences and satisfactions with the service remain unstudied. Therefore, this study was aimed to assess mothers' experiences and satisfaction with health extension service. METHODS A community based cross sectional study was conducted in Jimma Zone, Oromiya, Ethiopia. Three ...