AIM To develop affordable, appropriate, and nutritious recipes based on local food resources and dietary practices that have the potential to improve infant feeding practices. METHODS We carried out a mixed methods study following the World Health Organization's evaluation guidelines on the promotion of child feeding. We recruited caregivers with children aged 6-23 months in Wuyi County, Hebe...

The aim of this paper is through a qualitative study to determine how efficient academic entrepreneurship training occurs in an academic environment and how these programmes are structured and organised. Data from 20 different university training programmes at 12 European countries were analysed. We used a check-list to gather information on these items: Promoter, programmes, target groups, key...

ABSTRACT:Present research sought to analyze public and private sector extension in Balochistan province of Pakistan. Five districts, one from each ecological zone, were selected which are Turbat (Kech), Lasbela, Mastung, Sibi, and Loralai. A sample of 375 farmer respondents were taken with a systematic sampling procedure. The response rate was 82.67%. A detailed and comprehensive questionnaire ...

the aim of this study was to identify and prioritize the risky behaviors and explore the newly emerging pi related to egyptian habits that may lead to hcv transmission.from january 2011 until january 2012, a case control study matched on socio demographic factors was conducted comparing 540 hepatitis c patients and their contacts who were hcv serologically negative (102 subjects). they were ran...

iranian farmers are faced with many challenges. they must be economically efficient, produce enough food for the growing population and must be sensitive to environmental concerns. however, there is a growing concern related to the aftermath and side-effect of some agricultural activities on environment. these concerns made researches to consider agricultural activities with profound care in or...

broadcast digitalization with its enormous benefits to the broadcasting industry will improve the quality of content of programs delivered by television stations. africa has a switchover date of june, 2017. for nigerians to have access to television broadcast once the switch over is completed, they must purchase high definition television sets or the set-up box. the awareness among urban dwelle...

Coding rules are often used in industry for codifying software best practices and avoiding the many hazardous constructions present in languages such as C or C++. Predictable and customisable tools are needed to automatically measure adherence to these practices. Many of the properties about software needed for rule conformance analysis are calculated by modern compilers. We present an extensio...

Over time, a market dialog of taxonomy extension best practices will improve constituent communication and investor analysis and comparability assessments. A stated goal/objective typically associated with the adoption of the Extensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL 1 ) is the enhancement of information quality, specifically comparability. Terms often cited include 'Standard', 'Standardizat...

BACKGROUND The federal government is promoting adoption of electronic health records (EHRs) through financial incentives for EHR use and implementation support provided by regional extension centers. Small practices have been slow to adopt EHRs. OBJECTIVES Our objective was to measure time to EHR implementation and identify factors associated with successful implementation in small practices ...