despite considerable effort in developing climate information and demonstrating the potential benefits available to farmers, use of the climate information by farmers in farming decisions has not changed. the present research employed the theory of planned behaviour (tpb) as a theoretical framework to analyze the antecedents of agricultural climate information use behaviour. fars province wheat...

The study assessed the entrepreneurial behaviour of smallholder cassava farmers in Ebonyi State, Nigeria. Multistage sampling technique was employed in the selection of 108 cassava farmers across the agricultural zones in Ebonyi state using pretested and structured questionnaire from which data and information were elicited. Analytically, the study employed entrepreneurial behavioural index (EB...

This paper discusses preliminary investigations on the behaviour of the error handling mechanisms in Erlang, a parallel language which is renowned for its fault tolerant capabilities. A formal model is defined in order to provide a precise and unambiguous description of the behaviour of these mechanisms. The correctness of the model is evaluated by considering a simple Erlang program and compar...

In a reactive multi-agent system (MAS), the link between the collective behaviour and the behaviours of the individuals who make up this system is difficult to set up. So to reach a particular behaviour is also difficult. We support the concept of driving the behaviour of a MAS by a control approach. In order to obtain this control, we act on the MAS by using information about its global behavi...

The description of phytoplankton growth and nutrient acquisition plays a pivotal role in affecting the performance of plankton ecosystem models. A comparison was made between the behaviour of multi-nutrient phytoplankton models with alternative descriptions of the relationships between the nutrient:C quota and growth rate (m) and for the control of the transport of the non-limiting nutrient. Us...

the study assessed the entrepreneurial behaviour of smallholder cassava farmers in ebonyi state, nigeria. multistage sampling technique was employed in the selection of 108 cassava farmers across the agricultural zones in ebonyi state using pretested and structured questionnaire from which data and information were elicited. analytically, the study employed entrepreneurial behavioural index (eb...

Anisotropy of sand is mainly due to the geometrical arrangement of particles that depends on the orientation of applied load respect to the bedding plane. It is geologically due to micro-fabric created by the arrangement of the particles configured during deposition. Most of the models develop using stress/strain invariants are not capable of identifying this kind of anisotropy. This is mainly ...

We discuss the behaviour of a model of ferroelectric material represented by a thin cylinder with small thickness ν > 0. This model is described by a couple of Maxwell equations satisfied by the electromagnetic field (H,E) and electric polarization field P . We give a complete description of the limit model as ν → 0 in the linear case when (E,H) and P satisfy a SilverMüller type boundary condit...