the purpose of the study was to identify and prioritize the educational needs and support needed by agricultural extension agents in isfahan, islamic republic of iran. the target population for the study consisted of s3 agricultural extension agents in isfahan province. census population were used therefore, sampling procedures were not utilized and genera i izability of the results was lim...

considering the importance of extension agent as the mediator between farmers and experts, and their effective role in the transfer of knowledge and technology to farmers with the aim of achieving a sustainable agriculture system, the main purpose of this research was to analysis of the affecting factors on improvement of performance of extension agent from the farmers’ viewpoint in zahak towns...

the purpose of this study was to evaluate an extension agent's perception with respect to effectiveness of mass teaching methods employed in educational activities of irrigated wheat growing farmers in golestan province. survey and correlational methods were employed in the study. questionnaire was used as means to collect data. the study population consisted of the whole extension workers...

The study analyzed factors that motivate agricultural extension agents in Agricultural Development Programme of Abia State. Primary data were collected from 96 extension agents in Abia State, Nigeria who were selected using multi-stage random sampling technique. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, mean score, ordered logit and Spearman rank correlation. It was revealed that 58.3% o...

This paper introduces an extension of a previously developed question answering (QA) system for chemistry, operating on knowledge graph (KG) called Marie. enables the automatic invocation semantic agents to answer questions when static data is absent from KG. The are semantically described using agent ontology, OntoAgent, enable automated discovery and invocation. natural language processing (N...

Client-based user modelling has already been studied and clearly has its place among generic approaches to the user modelling. It is especially advantageous for lifelong user modelling as it can support the modelling in any time and any place including consideration of user privacy. Emergence of web browser extensions opens up possibilities of pure browser-based realisation of client-based user...

his study investigated the farmers’ feedback on Agricultural Development Project’s (ADP’s) performance. The study was carried out in Kogi State, Nigeria. Interview schedules were used to collect data from 160 contact farmers and 80 field extension workers who were randomly selected using multistage random sampling techniques. The data collected were subjected to both descriptive and non-paramet...