The study assessed the perceived effectiveness of agricultural extension methods used to disseminate improved technologies to rice farmers in kogi state, Nigeria. The specific objectives were to describe the socio – economic characteristics of the rice farmers, to assessed farmers level of contact with extension agents, perceived level of competence of extension agents to perform agricultural e...

The purpose of this study was to assess the process of extension program development in Iranian Agricultural Extension System (IAES). The research instrument was a structural questionnaire with close-ended questions which its validity and reliability was confirmed by using expert panel and Cranach’s alpha test, respectively. The target population of this research included all extension managers...

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malaria remains a complex problem during the pregnancy, which threatens > 35 millions pregnant women every year. malaria pathogenesis in pregnancy results in accumulation of infected rbcs in the intervillous spaces causing severe alterations leading to the reduced materno-foetal exchanges. in this article we have revisited the current evidences of clinical implications and overall burden of mal...

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The limited audio bandwidth of narrowband telephone speech degrades the speech quality. This paper proposes a method that extends the bandwidth of telephone speech to the frequency range 0–300 Hz. The lowest harmonics of voiced speech are generated using sinusoidal synthesis. The energy in the extension band is estimated from spectral features using a Gaussian mixture model. The amplitudes and ...

Abstract Aim Surgical training has been severely affected by stop, start and stop of elective surgical activity during the COVID pandemic. The aim this study was to analyze effectiveness strategies put in place tackle them. Methodology We looked at four UK Statutory Education Bodies (SEBs) published guidance trainee led resources see what measures were mitigate severe disruptions due COVID-19 R...

there is undoubtedly general agreement that the efficiency of educational investments should he maximized through the managerial process as far as possible. agricultural extension is one of the crucial tasks in developing agricultural societies calling for considerable consumption of intellectual investment. the management of agricultural extension projects (aeps) however, needs careful pla...

Enhancing the effectiveness of social policies in Indonesia Indonesia has made considerable progress over the years in improving the social conditions of its population, especially among disadvantaged groups, not least by raising government spending and strengthening social protection programmes. Nevertheless, in some respects social outcomes remain sub-par in relation to regional peers. In par...

In this paper we present an automatic and language-independent program verification approach based on symbolic execution. The specification formalism we consider is Reachability Logic, a language-independent logic that constitutes an alternative to Hoare logics. Reachability Logic has a sound and relatively complete deduction system, which offers a lot of freedom (but no guidelines) for constru...