this study examined the accuracy between extension professionals and farmers regarding their perceptions of privatization and commercialization of agricultural extension services. the study was carried out in delta state, nigeria and it had a sample size of 224 respondents comprising of 134 extension professionals of the delta state agricultural programme (dtadp) and 90 farmers that were random...

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objectives: quality of life for disabled children often has been assessed based on functional status or parental perceptions rather than direct reports from the children. the objective of this study was evaluating the quality of life of mothers with disabled children. methods: there is widespread acceptance of the need for disabled children to be fully integrated into society but there needs to...

the farmers of the future (fof) initiative implemented a programme of integrating natural resources management in the basic education curriculum. the purpose of the study was to document activities and determine the effects of fof programme on primary school learners’ perceptions towards natural resources management by comparing learners involved in the fof programme and those not involved. fur...

As most data models, “Computing with words” uses a mix of methods to achieve its aims, including several measurement indices. In this paper we discuss some proposals for such indices in the context of rough set analysis and present some new ones. In the first part we investigate several classical approaches based on approximation quality and the drop of approximation quality when leaving out el...

24 Years of Pneumoconiosis Mortality Surveillance in Australia: Derek R. SMITH, et al. International Center for Research Promotion and Informatics, National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health—Asbestosis, silicosis and Coal Worker’s Pneumoconiosis (CWP) represent three of the most important occupationally-related dust diseases in Australia. To gain a clear picture of pneumoconiosis tren...

The Z-number is a new fuzzy-theoretic concept, proposed by Zadeh in 2011. It extends the basic philosophy of Computing With Words (CWW) to include the perception of uncertainty of the information conveyed by a natural language statement. The Z-number thus, serves as a model of linguistic summarization of natural language statements, a technique to merge human-affective perspectives with CWW, an...

This paper aims to bring out the significant contribution of the Professor Lotfi A. Zadeh,"the father of Fuzzy Logic" in the field of Soft Computing. The computational Theory of Perceptions (CTP) deals with the automated processing of human knowledge expressed in Natural language. The development of computational system based on the Computational Theory of Perceptions is a challenging...

Usually, probabilistic automata and probabilistic grammars have crisp symbols as inputs, which can be viewed as the formal models of computing with values. In this paper, we first introduce probabilistic automata and probabilistic grammars for computing with (some special) words in a probabilistic framework, where the words are interpreted as probabilistic distributions or possibility distribut...