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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"extension system"”.
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Ways to Expand the Animal Welfare Component in the Extension System in Senegal: A Case Study of Thies and Bambey
… competitive, and sustainable agriculture system in order to ensure food security (International Monetary Fund, 2011). The purpose of the study is to develop a set of recommendations to improve the educational program planning and teaching skills of educators in the extension system by …
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Understanding Cooperative Extension Directors' Conceptualizations of, and Perceived Roles in, Internationalization
The Cooperative Extension System has been engaged in internationalization for decades. Ludwig and Barrick (1996) outlined five indicators of an internationalized Extension system. In the broader higher education literature Knight (2003) has conceptualized internationalization as a process. …
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Kids, coding, and connections : extending the ScratchJr programming environment to support wireless physical devices
This thesis presents a system and design for the connection of the ScratchJr programming environment to wireless physical devices. Using ScratchJr, young kids can create interactive stories, animations, and games on mobile tablet devices. With the extension system developed in this thesis, young …
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Physical Activity Promotion for Older Adults in Extension through Domestic and International Efforts
The Land-Grant University Cooperative Extension (herein: Extension) system has been an underutilized resource for physical activity programming. With the recent addition of physical activity as a focus of Extension work, efforts are needed improve dissemination and implementation of evidence-based …
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Cost Benefit Analysis of Virginia EFNEP: Calculating Indirect Benefits and Sensitivity Analysis
The Cooperative Extension System has focused on nutrition education for low-income families for approximately 29 years via the Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP). In response to the need for a comprehensive economic evaluation of EFNEP, Virginia Cooperative Extension (VCE) was …
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Assessment of an outsourced agricultural extension service in the Mutasa district, Manicaland province, Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe has a pluralistic agricultural extension system. In addition to the public extension service, donors contract private service providers to deliver extension services in specific project areas. This study assesses the impact of outsourced extension services on rural households in the Mutasa …
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State Administrators' Perceptions of the Environmental Challenges of Cooperative Extension and the 4-H Program and Their Resulting Adaptive Leadership Behaviors
Society has changed since Cooperative Extension and the 4-H youth program began. Over time the purpose for Extension has been challenged. Yet, there has been little empirical literature published on the administrators' role and perspectives of the organizational environment or on the resulting …
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An examination of Illinois Extension's mission and the role of learning partnerships in natural resource management programming
… engaged in natural resource issues is the state Extension system. Extension is an education network designed to connect research, science, and technology to the needs of the public. In Illinois, the mission of Extension is to improve the well-being of individuals and community through the use of …
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Description of Job Embeddedness in Arkansas County Extension Agents
<p>The Cooperative Extension System (CES) has had a long-standing problem with the retention of its county Extension agents (CEAs), who are in charge of running various programs in over 3,000 counties within the United States. When a CEA leaves a county, voluntarily or involuntarily, the community …
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The body parametric : abstraction of vocal and physical expression in performance
… physical performance, the Expressive Performance Extension Framework. This framework includes a set of questions and principles to guide the development of new extended performance works and systems for performance extension, particularly those incorporating machine learning techniques. Second, …
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Dissemination of Health Promotion Information in Cooperative Extension: A multi-study exploration of channels, sources, and characteristics that influence intervention uptake
… health promotion interventions within delivery systems such as the Cooperative Extension Service (Extension). Within this system, Extension educators serve as the intermediaries addressing needs in the communities in which they are employed with support from Extension health specialists. …
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An Analysis of African American Farmer Participation in Virginia Cooperative Extension: An Emphasis on the Small Farm Outreach and Technical Assistance Program
… farmer participation in Virginia Cooperative Extension as a step toward fully understanding the role participation plays in supporting African American farmers as legitimate learners within the Cooperative Extension system. This study, therefore, focused on exploring participation in African …
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Assessing Green Infrastructure Needs in Hampton Roads, Virginia and Identifying the Role of Virginia Cooperative Extension
… stormwater conveyance and detention focused systems. GI practices focus on integrating infiltration, evapotranspiration, and other components of the water cycle into more conventional stormwater management systems. These systems provide several positive benefits, including local water quality …
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Bridging the Gap: Community Gardens as a Supplement to Senior Adult Food Assistance Programs
… while examining the use of Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service county agents to provide oversight of project and volunteers.</p> <p>An explanatory sequential methodology which entailed administering a questionnaire to 83 senior adults and interviews with four nutrition site directors was …
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Suggested plan for home demonstration work in rural China
… the United States Department of State and the Extension Service of the United States Department of Agriculture for Latin-American students on Extension work aroused the interest of Dr. P.W. Tsou, Resident Representative in the United States of the Chinese Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry. …
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Widening of Reinforced Concrete Bridges – Extension of Pier Cap Beams with CFRP Composites
… e.g. addition of one driving/emergency lane, extension of the pier cap beam offers an attractive solution. Due to additional load resulting from the widened bridge, strengthening of extended cap beams may be needed. In addition, depending on the strength of the existing pier column, limited …
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In search of Actionable Insights for Successful Information Dissemination to Rural Small-Scale Farmers by Extension Workers: A Case Study of the Omaheke Region in Namibia
Extension workers in Namibia provide services and information to small-scale farmers, but it is believed that extension services are ineffective and produce little to no trust in small-scale farmers. The primary purpose of this study is therefore to explore actionable approaches for ensuring …
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The impacts of research on Philippine rice production
… the contributions of public investments in R&D, extension, production subsidy, and irrigation in reducing the cost of rice production in the Philippines. I used the shadow share as a measure of marginal return to public investments in determining the need for further investments. I also …
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Three essays in development economics: Private transfers, farmers' retirement, and learning failures
… pension program in China and the agricultural extension program in Malawi. Farmers’ private transfer behavior, retirement behavior, and learning failures are discussed in the three chapters respectively. The first chapter studies the impact of a newly introduced rural pension program on the …
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The information needs and challenges of agricultural researchers and extension workers in Zimbabwe
… 75% of the population. Agricultural research and extension is undertaken in both public and private sector institutions across the five agro-ecological regions of the country. The aim of this study was to investigate the information needs and challenges of agricultural researchers and extension …