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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"EXTENSION METHODS"”.
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The evaluation of extension methods and techniques as used by horticulture specialists in the United States
… in the name of "The Cooperative Agricultural Extension Service." Knowing a few of the highlights of this early development may help us feel more a part of this tremendous teaching movement. The Morrill Act means to us the establishment of our ultimate headquarters for state extension work. As …
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Cost-Effectiveness Evaluation of Integrated Pest Management (IPM) Extension Methods and Programs: The Case of Bangladesh
… Integrated Pest Management (IPM) training methods and programs aimed at diffusing IPM innovations to farmers in Bangladesh. Various IPM innovations are categorized as being simple, intermediate or complex, while dissemination methods used to extend these innovations are classified as being …
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Beef producers' attitudes toward the Virginia Cooperative Extension Service and their assessment of extension methods of disseminating information
… Virginia toward the Virginia Cooperative Extension Service and their assessment of the methods used by the agency in disseminating information to its clientele. Descriptive research design was utilized for this study. The population consisted of 1202 beef producers located in Carroll, …
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Investigation of Source Extension Methods, the Discrepancy Algorithm, and Noise Estimation to Overcome Cycle Skipping in Full Waveform Inversion
… so we rely on local gradient-based optimization methods. The success of such methods depends on the accuracy of the initial guess. Otherwise, FWI tends to get stuck at a suboptimal solution, a problem known as cycle-skipping. This dissertation explores several source extension methods to overcome …
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Small Farmers and the Agro-Industrial Production and Services Cooperative of Coronel Oviedo: Opportunities for Growth
… on recent scholarship in effective agricultural extension methods and rural development, I saw three main opportunities for the Cooperative to improve its relationship with its rural members. Improved and Expanded Extension Activities for Farmers, Improved Farmer Involvement in the Administration …
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On the Computation of Common Subsumers in Description Logics
… when building their knowledge bases a number of extension methods have been proposed to provide the user with concept descriptions as a starting point for new concept definitions. The inference service central to several of these approaches is the computation of (least) common subsumers of …
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Implementing a reusable design pattern Library in C#
… functions, lambda expressions, mixins (or extension methods), duck typing, dynamic types and meta-programming. Each pattern’s reusable components are discussed in detail, including the success of the reusable component transformation. All the design patterns reviewed in this thesis could be …
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An assessment of varietal improvement and extension services in cotton production in Magoye District, Zambia
… assess the impact of varietals development and extension services in cotton production. The specific objectives were to determine whether farmers are influenced by cotton seed companies in terms of what varieties to use, to determine the level of farmer knowledge about new varieties and to …
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A study of the link-chain LIFO controversy
… inventory accounting as compared to the double-extension variant. The research produced the first evidence on the topic. Process analyses of the two methods found both to be flawed, with the link-chain method seriously flawed. The link-chain method inappropriately incorporates the price-levels …
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Electrostatic micro actuators for mirror and other applications
… and industry, are demanding simple, fast methods for the design of quasi-static Mirror systems, with a large, stable, analog range of operation. In addition fast prototyping methods are in demand for the proof of concept fabrication of these mirror designs. This dissertation addresses …
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Farmers’ Motivation and Biophysical Impact of using Cordia africana and Albizia coriaria on Coffee-Bean Intercrops in the Mt Elgon Region (Uganda)
… of financial expectancy and highly subsidized extension by research and development programmes, leading to ‘pseudo adoption’. I contend that modernised agroforestry practices, informed by science generated in a participatory manner, have the promise of improving household food security, …
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ΔΙΕΡΕΥΝΗΣΗ ΤΩΝ ΕΚΠΑΙΔΕΥΤΙΚΩΝ ΑΝΑΓΚΩΝ ΤΩΝ ΓΕΩΡΓΩΝ ΤΗΣ ΠΕΡΙΟΧΗΣ ΤΗΣ ΠΡΩΗΝ ΛΙΜΝΗΣ ΓΙΑΝΝΙΤΣΩΝ
THE PURPOSE OF THIS PAPER IS TO IDENTIFY AND ASSESS THE PERCEIVED EDUCATIONAL NEEDS OF YOUNG FARMERS IN THE YANNITSA AREA OF NORTHERN GREECE. THE OVERALL OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY WERE TO: 1. COLLECT AND ANALYZE DATA REGARDING THE PERCEIVED EDUCATIONAL NEEDS OF YOUNG FARMERS IN A SELECTED AREA OF …
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MCDM methods based on pairwise comparison matrices and their fuzzy extension
Methods based on pairwise comparison matrices (PCMs) form a significant part of multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) methods. These methods are based on structuring pairwise comparisons (PCs) of objects from a finite set of objects into a PCM and deriving priorities of objects that represent the …