More than 50 agents participated in a series of workshops that were offered as inservice training and as a graduate level North Carolina State University (NCSU) course worth four credits. The Organic Unit at the Center for Environmental Farming Systems (CEFS), a 100acre (40-ha) facility dedicated to research and education in organic farming systems, served as a home base for training activities...

The purpose of this study was to observe changes in electromyographic activity appeared in shoulder and scapular muscles when one wears no wrist extension orthosis, short wrist extension orthosis and long wrist extension orthosis when performing two model assembling operations. The study subjects were 16 adults who use right hand and did not have any functional disorder on their wrist or the up...

This article reports a replication and extension of a study that explored individual perceptions of factors that underlie the use of electronic media (electronic mail, world-wide-web, list serves, and other collaborative systems). The original study was conducted in a single Australian university. The study was replicated in a Canadian university. The replication allowed testing of the enlarged...

Belik Subdistrict Agricultural Extension Center (BPP Belik) is a government extension agency that fosters farmers in village. Every month at BPP many activities are carried out. Both indoor and outdoor activities. The PPL (Field Extension) officers provide lot of training coaching to Village. However, the involvement participating still very limited, considering has limited funds time. This mak...

OBJECTIVES The main objective of this study has been qualitative investigation of the effects of external loading on the lumbar extension moment during squat lifting. Findings of this study may allow to determine the factor with the most considerable effect on the lumbar extension moment and may help determine the lumbar spine risk factors at temporo-spatial coordination during squat lifting. ...

Modeling multi-day planning has received scarce attention today in activity-based transport demand modeling. Elaborating and combining previous work on event-driven activity generation, the aim of this paper is to develop and illustrate an extension of a need-based model of activity generation that takes into account possible influences of pre-planned activities and events. This paper describes...

This paper gives an outline of the targets, achievements and future plans of the recently started MoMuSys extension work called "New Tasks for MPEG-4". It consists of three different parts: (1) development of new algorithms for MPEG-4 Version 2; (2) development of a semi-automatic video object generation tool for content creation purposes; (3) development of an MPEG-4 based mobile virtual confe...

BACKGROUND Continuous NGF stimulation induces PC12 cell differentiation. However, why continuous NGF stimulation is required for differentiation is unclear. In this study, we investigated the underlying mechanisms of the timing-dependent requirement of NGF action for cell differentiation. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS To address the timing-dependency of the NGF action, we performed a discont...

DART (Digital Anthropological Resources for Teaching) is a major project examining ways in which the use of online learning activities and repositories can enhance the teaching of anthropology and, by extension, other disciplines. This paper reports on one strand of DART activity, the development of customisable learning activities that can be repurposed for use in multiple contexts. Three exam...

A new discipline, Usability Design, is proposed as an extension to Rational Unified Process (RUP). The aim is to make RUP more user-centred. The discipline springs out of best practices for user-centred design and contains activities that have been carefully tested. Five new roles are introduced to take responsibility for the different activities. An example is given to show the content of the ...