Farmers need accurate and timely information to increase crop production productivity. However, market price fluctuations extension approach changes inspired the farmers opt for private agricultural systems. The decision adopt or reject an innovation depends on farmer's attitude toward innovation. Thus, present study was undertaken assess unidimensional nature of scale through scalogram techniq...

A central tenet of behavioral economics is that the axioms producing expected utility maximization by consumers are too strong to be descriptive rational behavior. The existing theory monetary services aggregation under risk assume maximization. We extend those results uncertainty weaker axiomatic assumptions using Choquet expectations. integration reduces Riemann as a special case stronger ass...

In this paper we evaluate the efficiency of extension programmes in adoption chemical fertilizers Ethiopia between 1994 and 2004 using matching techniques a quasi-experimental setting. addition to common factors, measures culture, proxied by ethnicity religion, aim control for potential tensions agents peasants. We find considerable impact services on first fertilizer adoption. Although, there ...

Today’s database management systems are mainly large and heavy-weight monoliths that, even worse, undergo steady extensions in functionality. This makes them highly complex and creates problems when it comes to build tailored extensions. Our goal is to introduce more flexibility and extensibility by founding our database architecture on the principles of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). In ...