the objective of the current study is to identify the role of professional development components in developing organizational entrepreneurship in agricultural extension management of kermanshah province. the study was fulfilled by using correlation method and relational-causal model. all the agricultural extension agents in kermanshah province equal to 456 people formed the population of this ...

Since a lot of material and human expenditure are spent for implementing extension education programs for rural people, one of the most important aspects of these programs is “effectiveness evaluation” and the rate of accomplishing program objectives, as well as determining program obstacles and solving them for future plans. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of rural ...

  The study examined the role of information communication technologies in extension delivery of Agricultural Transformation Agenda (ATA) of Nigeria.  The objectives were to: examine the agricultural extension delivery of ATA; identify ICTs relevant in agricultural extension and application of ATA; examine roles of ICTs in extension of ATA and identify constraints to the use of ICTs in extensio...

Parallel programming is an extension of sequential programming; today, it is becoming the mainstream paradigm in day-to-day information processing. Its aim is to build the fastest programs on parallel computers. The methodologies for developing a parallel program can be put into integrated frameworks. Development focuses on algorithm, languages, and how the program is deployed on the parallel c...

This current study completes a three-phase process to determine critical professional development needs of the University of Florida Extension (UFE) state specialists. Phase I data were collected from county directors, Phase II from county faculty, while this phase involved data collected from state extension specialists themselves. In addition to identifying critical professional development n...

The design of a new curriculum in a positive youth development program (Project P.A.T.H.S.) in Hong Kong is outlined. The Tier 1 Program of the original phase of the Project P.A.T.H.S. is a universal positive youth development program for students in Secondary 1 to Secondary 3 with the curricula developed by a research team comprising scholars in different disciplines (e.g., social work, psycho...

Background & Aims: This study was performed to compare the effects of open and closed chain terminal knee extension exercises on onset latency of vastus medialis obliques (VMO) and vastus lateralis (VL), pain and function in subjects diagnosed with patellofemoral pain syndrome (PFPS). Methods: In a pretest and posttest 5-week intervention study, 26 subjects diagnosed with PFPS and 13 healthy su...

financial markets are considered because of their role in acquiring small and large savings of national economy, optimizing the flow of financial resources and distributing these resources to consumption and investment needs of economic sectors. the aim of this study was investigating the influence of financial market extension on agriculturalsector’s development of kohgilouye and boyer ahmad p...

background: continuous evaluation is required in order to ensure the university system’s efficiency. one of the important aspects of evaluating the educational system’s effectiveness is judging the system’s ability in meeting environmental needs. the present research’s goal has been to investigate nursing education’s efficiency through investigating the graduate’s condition and their views on e...