The 4-H program has the largest membership of any youth organization in the United States (Ohio Cooperative Extension Service, 1986). The mission of 4-H is to provide educational experiences for boys and girls, 9 to 19 years of age, to improve their quality of life. The 4-H program provides practical learning experiences for nearly five million youth each year (Ohio Cooperative Extension Servic...

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...

importance of farmers' participation in system design and management has been emphasized in various fields. motivation is thought as the most important factor affecting farmers' participation in agricultural development programs. many theories have been postulated in motivation field and abundant research projects accomplished in this area. mcmillion’s theory was recognized as appropr...

Restaurant managers correctly believe that good tips discourage server turnover, but managers might not know the best ways to boost tips because improving service quality doesn’t necessarily do it.

The introduction of service-oriented architectures (SOA) in the enterprise context promises many advantages. For example, by composing existing services new capabilities can be provided quickly allowing a fast and agile reaction to changing market conditions. In order to support companies in a successful adoption of SOA, service-orientation must be integrated in their enterprise architecture. M...

Composing existing web services for enterprise applications may enable higher level of reuse. However the composition processes are mostly static and lack of support for runtime redesign. In this paper, we describe our approach to the extension of the OWL-S ontology framework for dynamic web service composition. We raise the level of abstraction and propose an abstract service layer so that web...

When dealing with Cloud Computing Services (CCSs) provisioning and usage, different degrees of complexity can be reached, depending on whether service composition is needed to satisfy users’ requests. This scenario demands effective ways for modelling CCSs and corresponding Service Level Agreements (SLAs) in order to facilitate service composition, comparison and monitoring. However, current SL...

The ability to measure, monitor and control the service quality experienced by network traffic is becoming increasingly important as multiple traffic types are aggregated onto IP networks. This paper introduces a novel measurement technique for assessing performance metrics (e.g. one-way packet loss, delay, delay variation, and ‘goodput’) of IPv6 network flows. By exploiting native IPv6 extensi...