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Showing 1 to 20 of 121 for “"FFA"”.
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History of the Virginia FFA Association
… this research focused on the predecessors of the FFA by outlining the history and purposes of agricultural organizations formed since the late 1700s. The past two centuries of American agricultural history is rich with efforts to educate and improve agricultural practices through organized groups …
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Swine Solutions: Enhancing FFA Supervised Agricultural Experience Projects
<p>Supervised Agricultural Experience (SAE) is a portion of the three-circle model of agriculture education, providing experiential learning opportunities for students. The immersion SAE encourages students to build upon foundational learning components in a real-world application. A popular area …
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The National FFA Building our American Communities Program: characteristics of selected 1983 BOAC projects, program participants, FFA chapters, schools, and communities
… in the 1983 BOAC program relative to their FFA chapter, school, and community contextual situations with respect to program inputs and anticipated outcomes. The first four levels of Bennett and Nelson's (1975) evaluation hierarchy used by the Cooperative Extension Service served as a …
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A study of the 1971 FFA summer leadership and citizenship conference
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FFA membership growth compared to a changing and growing student population
This study compares National FFA membership growth to the growth of the overall student population (percentage growth change, PGC) by state and region from 1990 to 2014 using data provided by the National FFA Organization and the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES). Using Ragin’s (1987) …
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Attitudes of Virginia vocational agricultural teachers toward the Future Farmers of America (FFA)
… teachers toward the Future Farmers of America (FFA) and certain variables contributing to these attitudes which may influence the ability of the teachers to incorporate effectively a FFA chapter into a local program of vocational agriculture. The sample of this study consisted of 201 vocational …
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Factors related to the attitude toward the FFA of eastern region secondary agricultural teachers
… teachers toward the Future Farmers of America (FFA) and the relationship of selected factors to that attitude. To accomplish this purpose the following factors were examined: (a) years of vocational agriculture teaching experience; (b) number of teachers in the vocational agriculture department; …
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Factors associated with the success of participants in the 1981 National FFA Livestock Judging Contest
… teams that participated in the 1981 National FFA Livestock Judging Contest. A secondary purpose of the study was to determine the attitudes of both the contestants and their advisors regarding the contest. The population consisted of 135 FFA members who competed in the contest in Kansas City, …
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Factors associated with membership and non-membership status in FFA of black Americans from selected NFA states
… on membership vs. non-membership in the FFA. The groups under investigation were 602 black tenth grade vocational students from 66 high schools in five former NFA states. Criteria for selection of high schools were: (a) must have a high school vocational agriculture program; and (b) must …
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Insight into Nucleation Kinetics of Flufenamic Acid Cocrystal Formulation in Solution: Investigating the Role of Polymeric Excipients through Combined Experimental and Computational Approaches
… and molecular interactions in flufenamic acid (FFA) cocrystal systems, with a particular focus on the role of polymeric excipients. The impact of selected polymers, polyvinyl pyrrolidone (PVP), polyvinylpyrrolidone-vinyl acetate copolymer (PVP-VA), polyethylene glycol (PEG), and soluplus (SOL), …
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Is there an association between frontal fibrosing alopecia and sunscreen actives?
Background Frontal fibrosing alopecia (FFA) is a subtype of primary scarring alopecia. It is associated with progressive, lymphocytic inflammation of hair follicles and permanent replacement by fibrous tissue. Clinically FFA is characterized by a band-like recession of the frontal hairline which …
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Experiences of pregnancy with major fetal anomalies
… agreed definition, the term fatal fetal anomaly (FFA) is widely used to describe a condition likely to lead to death of the fetus in utero or within 28 days of birth. Delivering a diagnosis of a FFA is usually unexpected and is an unwanted and traumatic event for parents. Little is known about …
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Investigating the Dissolution and Permeation Properties of Flufenamic Acid Cocrystals
… pharmaceutical ingredient (API) flufenamic acid (FFA) were synthesized, including 1:1 flufenamic acid-nicotinamide cocrystal (FFA-NIC CO) and 1:1 flufenamic acid-theophylline cocrystal (FFA-TP CO). The results of infrared spectroscopy (IR), differential scanner calorimetry (DSC) and x-ray powder …
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Factors Affecting the Development of Lipase Flavor in Butter
… acid degree value (ADV), and free fatty acids (FFA) using a colorimetric procedure. Age of the cream had a significant effect (P< .01) on FFA and. ADV .levels, whereas heat treatment .of the cream had a significant effect (P< .01) on flavor only. Storage time had a significant effect (P< .01) on …
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An econometric analysis of the forward freight market
… The evidence however, on the over-the-counter FFA market is very limited. This thesis therefore, by investigating these issues provides new evidence in the literature for a forward market with some unique characteristics such as the trading of a service. Our empirical results can be summarised …
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Mechanisms underlying lipotoxicity and glucotoxicity in pancreatic islets
… islets to a high level of free fatty acids (FFA) or glucose negatively modulates islet hormone release, the identities of signals mediating these effects are not yet fully clarified. The overall objective of this study was to investigate signal transduction pathways involved in FFA- and …
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The supercritical fluid extraction and chromatographic analysis of fatty acids in blue cheese
… ripening leads to formation of free fatty acids (FFA). The short chain FFA (C6 to C10) are more peppery in flavor than long chain FFA. Conventional methods of FFA analysis suffer from limitations such as loss of volatile fatty acids during derivatization of samples and difficulties in extraction …
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Various factors that affect hydrolytic rancidity in rice bran
… To assess the loss of quality, free fatty acids (FFA) in raw bran were measured over 48 hour period. Cultivar, farming technique, harvest year, milling conditions and degree of milling (DOM) were the factors examined for their effects on FFA of raw bran. Rice bran samples were dehulled and milled …
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Fat metabolism in the exercising thoroughbred horse
… in the availability of plasma free fatty acids (FFA) or as the result of chronic fat supplementation. Finally an adaptational response to feeding a fat supplemented diet was described. The variation in plasma long chain FFA over a 24 hour period was described. The early hours of the morning …
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Assessing career development event placement frequencies to explore evaluation and equity in agricultural education
… at the National Future Farmers of America (FFA) annual convention. This study assesses trends in placement at National FFA CDE competitions and develops a parameter by which to monitor and compare success rates across states. Additionally, this study reports achievement trends by state and …
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