The life of Herbert Windsor Mumford exemplifies the advent and progression of the professional Animal Scientist in the Land-Grant Institutions of the country. His successive roles from student of Animal Husbandry through the highest administrative posts in agricultural education, experimentation and extension, and contributions to agricultural policy and programs on a national level established...

The purpose of this thesis was to explore the critical thinking demonstrated within student teacher blog posts as student teachers discussed and reflected in an online community of practice during their student teaching experiences, and to determine the critical thinking demonstrated within student teaching blog posts as the blog posts related to the Interstate New Teacher Assessment and Suppor...

*PhD student in the Department of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania. **Assistant professor in the Department of Agricultural, Environmental, and Development Economics at the Ohio State University. Correspondence: Abdoul G. Sam, Agricultural Administration Building, Room # 238, The Ohio State University, 2120 Fyffe Rd, Columbus, OH 43210, Email: [email protected], Phone: (614) 247-8647, Fax: (61...

Historically, one of the most constant features of America’s high schools is the structure of the school day. However, in the 1990s, “The most visible and perhaps significant change in the organization of the high school is the block schedule” (Cawelti, 1997, p. 41). There have been conflicting results regarding the effects of block scheduling on student achievement. Researchers in agricultural...

Meat species identification by Real Time PCR Student: Rajni Kumari Major Advisor: Dr. D. N. Rank . Department of Animal Biotechnology College of Veterinary Science and Animal Husbandary Anand Agricultural University Anand Campus, Anand-388001

Based on the survey data of 364 peasant households in Yibin, Sichuan, this paper analyzes the farmer’s willingness to small forest tenure mortgage loans. The result indicates a high willingness up to 74.2%, i.e. the farmers are willing to invest forest tenure mortgage loans into forestry and agricultural production. The influential factors on farmer’s willingness to small forest tenure mortgage...

Vocational agriculture teachers should be concerned with student exposure to noise in agricultural mechanics laboratories. "Instruction in agricultural mechanics is basic to all specialized programs in vocational agriculture" (Zurbrick, 1973). Zurbrick found that over 86% of the employees in all agricultural job titles required one or more skills in agricultural mechanics. Studies have shown th...

We read the publication by Liu (2016) on authorship misconduct with a great interest. In fact, the authorship misconduct is no uncommon and has to be managed. Liu (2016) noted that “Proper authorship embodies honesty, integrity, fairness and transparency, which surely are the very essence of any scientific pursuit.” Due to the present requirement on academic publication to support academic rank...