Interdisciplinary thinking as a skill appears to be of value to higher education students and those in employment. This idea is explored with reference to the agricultural and life sciences. The need for further understanding of the development of interdisciplinary thinking is acknowledged. This is closely related to the requirement for well-founded curriculum and course design. This publicatio...

The purpose of this study was to determine how high school students perceived science and agriculture after completing a yearlong biology class that used animal agriculture as the context. This study utilized a case-study approach. The population for the study included all students who participated in a biology course utilizing animal agriculture as the context for teaching biology (N=531). Mor...

background: considering the importance of entering doctoral students to universities with hard competition, in order to detect the predictive power of entrance exam grade in educational achievement in early years, we attempted to investigate the efficacy of entrance exam with basic scientific test. methods: the existing data from national organization for education testing and education center ...

this study historically analyzes the scientific output of mathematics to describe its structure, notions and scientific origin using the historiographical method. the research data consisted of scientific outputs of mathematics in isi database, science citation index (sci) and social science citation index (ssci) during 8 years (1990 to 2007). the data collection tool was the search engine and ...

1. This document is HS405, one of a series of the Horticultural Sciences Department, Florida Cooperative Extension Service, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida. Original publication date, January 2010. Visit the EDIS Web site at http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu. 2. Richard Tyson, director, Orange County Extension Office, Orlando, FL; Robert Hochmuth, multicounty extension...

1. This document is HS942, one of a series of the Horticultural Sciences Department, Florida Cooperative Extension Service, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida. Original publication date: July 2002. Revised publication date: August 2003. This publication is included in SP-281, Water and Florida Citrus. Please visit the EDIS Web site at http:/edis.ifas.ufl.edu. 2. ...

1. This is EDIS document FE787, a publication of the Food and Resource Economics Department, Florida Cooperative Extension Service, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL. Published December 2008. Please visit the EDIS website at http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu. 2. Tatiana Borisova, assistant professor, Food and Resource Economics Department, University of ...

1. This document is AN124, one of a series of the Animal Sciences Department, Florida Cooperative Extension Service, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida. Original publication date September 17, 2001. Revised April, 2004. Revised December 2009. Visit the EDIS Web Site at http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu. 2. Robert Myer, professor; Travis Maddock, post-doctoral associate; D...

1 Department of Pharmacology, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, 8 MN 55455, USA 9 2 Lindsley F. Kimball Research Institute, New York Blood Center, New York, NY 10065, 10 USA 11 3 Department of Veterinary Biosciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, The Ohio State 12 University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA 13 4 State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, College of Veterina...

The relationships between agricultural science, invention, production and consumption are conventionally considered in a hierarchical model with consumption at the basis and science at the pinnacle of the hierarchy. Two important shortcomings of that model as a basis for organizing and managing agricultural research are identified. First, the model does not specify how the direction and intensi...