Research-enabled growth in agricultural productivity is pivotal to sub-Saharan Africa's overall economic growth prospects. Yet, investments in research and development (R&D) targeted to many national food and agricultural economies throughout Africa are fragile and faltering. To gain insight into what could be driving this trend, this article updates, summarizes and reassesses the published evi...

N D E X O F U N D E R G R A D U A T E P R O G R A M S A Aboriginal Communities, Middle School Education in (Certificate) [Education] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207 Aboriginal Education for Certified Teachers (Certificate) [Education] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208 Aboriginal Literacy Education (Certificate) . . . . . . . . . . . 207 Accoun...

investing in research and development spending (r&d) affects total factor productivity (tfp).recently new theories of economic growth have emphasized the relationship between r&d and tfpand also identified a number of channels through which a country’s r&d affects tfp of its tradepartner. this study seeks to estimate the effect of agricultural r&d and education spending and some...

INTRODUCTION Phlebotomus argentipes is considered to be one of the major control measure targets in eradicating visceral leishmaniasis (VL). This study demonstrates the spatial association of P. argentipes abundance in relation to agricultural environment in the endemic area of north Bihar. METHODOLOGY Vector data were collected from the 95 villages of the study area using a handheld aspirati...

To monitor genotoxicity in small bodies of water (e.g., creeks, ponds, and drainage ditches) we examined tadpole erythrocytes of two species: Rana clamitans and Rana pipiens,using the alkaline single cell gel DNA electrophoresis (SCG) or "comet" assay. This approach involves detection, under alkaline conditions, of cell DNA fragments which on electrophoresis migrate from the nuclear core, resul...

H. Ozkilinc, O. Frenkel, S. Abbo, R. Eshed, A. Sherman, D. Shtienberg*, R. Ophir and C. Can Department of Biology, University of Gaziantep, 27310, Turkey; The Levi Eshkol School of Agriculture, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rehovot 76100; Genomics Department, The Volcani Center, Agricultural Research Organization, Bet-Dagan, 50250; and Department of Plant Pathology and Weed Research, the ...