To address the challenge of developing an effective extension program for Tasmanian dairy farmers in the context of adaptation to climate variability, a knowledge partnering approach was trialled. Knowledge partnering enabled extensionists to draw on the knowledge and experience of Tasmanian dairy farmers about changing weather patterns and the management implications of these and then design a...

Agricultural extension is less clear, so it needs to be addressed, by developing professionalism of workers in improving the quality agricultural extension. How implementation strategic management The research objectives were identify and analyze: 1. SWOT internal environment (strengths weaknesses) external (opportunities challenges / threats); 2. Strategic formulation; 3. implementation; 4. Ma...

The Extension Service, United States Department of Agriculture, funded a special project to approach development of extension materials for dairy farmers by systems analysis. Agricultural engineers created video tapes and publications on manure, feed handling, calf housing, and milking subsystems. Dairy scientists created slide-tapes and publications on controlling feed losses during harvest, s...

Philip Shapira is Associate Professor in the School of Public Policy at Georgia Institute of Technology. Jan Youtie is a Senior Research Associate at Georgia Tech’s Economic Development Institute. Overview This paper examines the experience of the Georgia Manufacturing Extension Alliance (GMEA) in implementing an evaluation of its industrial extension services. As part of the U.S. Manufacturing...

This paper introduces a novel approach to support runtime execution monitoring with nearly no negative impact on runtime. The monitoring is configurable to applicationspecific requirements and supports real-time behaviour during development and runtime. An extension of the basic approach for monitoring contains watchdog capabilities for a finegrained observation of runtime activities and a two-...

To provide high-level graphical support for developing message passing programs, an integrated programming environment (GRADE) is being developed. GRADE currently provides tools to construct, execute, debug, monitor and visualise message-passing based parallel programs. The paper describes the extension of GRADE with formal method support based on Petri nets composition. . We outline specificat...