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...

This paper develops an extension of expected utility theory by introducing various restrictions; e.g., probabilities have only decimal (or binary) fractions of finite depths not greater than a given constant, the preference relation in question may be incomplete. The basic idea is separation between measurement of utility for pure alternatives and extension to lotteries involving more risks suc...

Agromedicine developments in Alabama rest heavily on the interest and support of the farm community. Participatory approaches have been advocated in order to impact the safety and health of farms. The University of Alabama Agromedicine Research Team, working closely with and guided by farmers, places emphasis on identifying areas of farmer concern related to agricultural health and safety and o...

Imperfect knowledge of the world is one of the main issues AI systems have to deal with. In recent years there has been much interest in coping with such imperfections in planning systems. However, most works only emphasize one side of the problem, namely uncertainty. We argue that vagueness (or imprecision) is a fundamental issue which planning systems should also take into account. With this ...

Maintaining balance after an external perturbation requires modification of ongoing motor plans and the selection of contextually appropriate muscle activation patterns that respect body and limb position. We have used the vestibular system to generate sensory-evoked transitions in motor programming. In the face of a rapid balance perturbation, the lateral vestibular nucleus (LVN) generates exc...

In this work we introduce Semantic Turkey, a Semantic Extension for the popular web browser Mozilla Firefox. Semantic Turkey can be used to annotate information from visited web sites and organize this information according to a personally defined ontology. Clear separation between knowledge data (the WHAT) and web links (the WHERE) is established into the knowledge model of the system, which a...

Purpose: The aim of this paper is constructing a performance evaluation model for service-oriented catering supply chain. Design/methodology/approach: With the research on the current situation of catering industry, this paper summarized the characters of the catering supply chain, and then presents the service-oriented catering supply chain model based on the platform of logistics and informat...

Formal asymptotic expansions have long been used to study the singularly perturbed Allen-Cahn type equations and reaction-diffusion systems, including in particular the FitzHugh-Nagumo system. Despite their successful role, it has been largely unclear whether or not such expansions really represent the actual profile of solutions with rather general initial data. By combining our earlier result...