Annie’s Project: Farming in New Jersey’s Cities and the Urban Fringe focused on following five areas of risk identified by US Department Agriculture Economic Research Service: financial, production, marketing/price, legal/institutional, human/personnel. Additional education regarding urban farming topics included securing suitable land, dealing with contaminated soils alternative growing medias...

Contemporary preparation of pedagogical personnel is characterized by rapid changes and the emergence new interdisciplinary professional scientific fields, which makes mission higher education more uncertain complex. In this regard, article presents issue possible formation transversal competencies among students a university. The concept competency analyzed its components are defined. Addition...

Student support programs in higher education are commonly delivered by professional institution staff who not directly involved students’ courses. In this paper, we report on a unique student program within School of Education and the perceptions academic designed program. Methodologically, written spoken critically reflective encounters were used to explore dimensions support: connectedness, m...

The government of Iraq states that despite the massive amounts invested in power generating sector, country has been plagued by outages for more than three decades; One most common sources problem and significant impact on waste public funds contractual processes. Ministry Planning issued sectorial specialized standard bidding documents (SSBD) Design, Supply, Installation Electromechanical Work...

STUDY OBJECTIVES To investigate the effect of an eight-week, home-based, personalized, computerized cognitive training program on sleep quality and cognitive performance among older adults with insomnia. DESIGN Participants (n = 51) were randomly allocated to a cognitive training group (n = 34) or to an active control group (n = 17). The participants in the cognitive training group completed ...

to ealuate the effect of a physical exercise program on elderly's self-esteem, the smith questionnaire was administreed to 34 elderly males aged 60-75 years old. the group participated in a specially desined physical exercise program every morning for 30 days. each session lasted 30-45 minutes.results indicated the efficacy of the program in improving subjects' self-esteem. this was c...

Cognitive training has been a growing field in recent years. It is established that training improves cognitive abilities in healthy elderly people. Specialized software and commercial devices including the possibility of cognitive gaming has been placed into the market; most of them are based on neuropsychological models of cognitive aging, but few have been scientifically tested. Computerized...

The quantitative analysis of electroencephalographic activity (EEG) is a useful tool for the study of changes in brain electrical activity during cognitive and behavioral functions in several experimental conditions. Their recording and analysis are currently carried out primarily through the use of computer programs. This paper presents a computerized program (EEGbands) created for Windows ope...