OBJECTIVE To compare published recommendations regarding biosecurity practices for various production animal species and classes. DESIGN Literature review. POPULATION Educational materials available on the World Wide Web that provided biosecurity recommendations for dairy cattle, beef cattle, small ruminant, swine, and poultry producers. PROCEDURES Web sites for national producer organiza...

New design methods and tools are needed to improve the process of designing dynamically reconfigurable logic. This paper reports on the revision and extension of Dynamic Circuit Switching (DCS), a CAD tool for specifying and simulating dynamically reconfigurable systems. The work introduces a new design framework, which exploits existing design practices where feasible, and proposes a new desig...

We preliminarily find that providing sustainable land management (SLM) training to standard contact farmers and having them maintain demonstration plots within the community on a whole had low impact on the knowledge and adoption of SLM practices. However, the aspect of our intervention that targeted a traditionally disadvantaged group as far as their access to extension services, women, was so...

There is an increasing need for analysing problematic situations and creating visions for computer systems that are getting used as means of communication and coordination of work in and between work practices in an organisation. In this paper an extension of object oriented frameworks with Activity Theory and elements from Soft Systems Methodology is used to develop an analysis technique that ...

In this paper a survey of recommended VHDLAMS modeling practices for effective parallel simulation is given. Also, a need for extension of VHDL-AMS standard is considered in order to enable the designer to influence parallel simulation performance during the model development. Mixed-mode circuit partitioning algorithms that should be applied during the model compilation are presented.

Lessons learned and practiced in agriculture for 100 years are now informing the development of a primary care extension program that has the potential to provide substantial support for primary care practices throughout Oklahoma and to make it easier for all agencies and organizations working to improve our state's health to do so more effectively.

this research was based on primary data collected through well designed and pre-tested questionnaire, to determine awareness of farmers on extension methods used by adp in kano state of nigeria. multistage sampling technique was used, in which three local governments were randomly selected. secondly, three wards one each from the selected local governments (danbatta, gaya and madobi) were rando...

present study was conducted in the three provinces of pakistan with the objectives to study the curricula relevancy with the participatory extension, supervision and administration and its practical applicability at the field level. for this extension agents of the selected provinces were selected purposively. mail questionnaire were used as instruments for data collection form 227 respondents ...

this study examined the accuracy between extension professionals and farmers regarding their perceptions of privatization and commercialization of agricultural extension services. the study was carried out in delta state, nigeria and it had a sample size of 224 respondents comprising of 134 extension professionals of the delta state agricultural programme (dtadp) and 90 farmers that were random...