Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) can make a major contribution to the management of publicly funded research in agriculture by improving the effectiveness of research activities, their results, their dissemination and eventual implementation. The Israeli ICT adoption case study outlines a combination of competitive, cost effective public R&D funding with public maintenance of sc...

This paper outlines a research methodology for investigating the process of digital game design. This methodology has been successfully developed and applied during a doctoral inquiry investigating the design of games and simulations to promote conceptual learning in physics. A key challenge of that inquiry was to both outline and legitimate the design process as one of research. This paper fol...

The Department of Rural Health, University of Melbourne, has developed a framework for conducting research in partnership with Indigenous communities. The framework addresses past inappropriate research practices, incorporates cultural understandings, and outlines culturally appropriate protocols. The four parts of the framework are a committee to initiate, direct and oversee all research proje...

Lower Fungom, in Northwest Cameroon, is one of the most linguistically diverse areas of the Cameroonian Grassfields. Seven languages or small language clusters are spoken in its thirteen villages and five of them are not obviously closely related to each other nor to any other language spoken outside of the region. This paper discusses the non-linguistic factors that may have resulted in this s...

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citation analysis is one of the most common techniques of bibliometrics in which the governing rules between the citing document and the cited document are studied. in other words, citation analysis is mainly based on who cites to whom.the aim of this research is to determine citation behavior of writers of m.sc thesis at agriculture field, and to specify behavioral patterns, informational them...