2. Cortney L. Ohs, assistant professor, Indian River Research and Education Center; Eric J. Cassiano, graduate student; and Adelaide Rhodes, post-doctoral research associate, Indian River Research and Education Center, School of Forest Resources and Conservation, Program in Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences; Cooperative Extension Service, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of ...

Inhibitory Effects of Pisiferic Acid on Angiogenesis and Lymphangiogenesis Sachi Shibata1, Mitsuyoshi Yatagai2, Yoshiko Tateishi3, Kiminori Matsubara1 1 Department of Human Life Science Education, Graduate School of Education, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan 2 Supporting Organization for Research of Agricultural and Life Sciences, Tokyo, Japan 3 Department of Environmental Dynamics and M...

Climate change can endanger human health and life – either directly through disasters or by damaging the productivity of critical development resources such as crops and livestock, forest, fisheries and water. To avoid this, we have to consider and anticipate climate change risks when deciding, e.g. where and how to build infrastructure, what crops to plant and when to plant them, what species ...

This study was supported by the French National Research Agency; CERoPath (Community Ecology of Rodents and their Pathogens in Southeast Asia Project ANR 07 BDIV 012); Infectiopôle Sud; Center for Excellence on Agricultural Biotechnology; the Science and Technology Postgraduate Education and Research Development Office; the Office of Higher Education Commission, Ministry of Education (AGBIO/PER...

The purpose of the present study was to analyze the effective components of educational transformation in agricultural higher education system in Iran by a mixed study method. The statistical population includes all faculty members (N=361) teaching in agricultural college of Tehran, Tarbiat Modares and Shiraz University, and a sample of 186 faculty members (n=186) were selected by stratified ra...

Increasing rate of unemployment among the graduates of Iranian higher agricultural education system has been developed into one of the major socio-economic problems of the nation. Entrepreneurship is one of the most important factors contributing to economic and social development, that is, it is a main driver for employment creation. As such, many policy initiatives in Iran attempt to pull agr...

1Hubei Co-Innovation Center of Basic Education IT Services, Hubei University of Education, China 2Lenovo Mobile Communication Technology Co., Ltd., China 3Guangxi Key Laboratory of Trusted Software, Guilin University of Electronic Technology, China 4State Key Laboratory of Software Engineering, Computer School, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China 5Department of Computer Science, Huazhong Agricultura...

By paying particular attention to the local economic context, this paper analyzes the determinants of non-agricultural employment and earnings in non-agricultural jobs. The empirical analysis is based on the Brazilian Demographic Census, allowing for disaggregated controls for the local economy. Education stands out as one of the key determinants of employment outcome and earnings potential. Fa...

Beginning with A Nation at Risk in 1983, numerous reports were issued throughout the 1980s calling for educational reform in the United States. These reports resulted in sweeping educational reforms enacted by state legislatures nationwide. In Texas, significant educational changes were initiated in 1984 by House Bill 72. One of the outcomes of this bill was major reform in secondary agricultur...

India is an agriculture based developing country. Information dissemination to the knowledge intensive agriculture sector is upgraded by mobile-enabled information services and rapid growth of mobile telephony. It bridge the gap between the availability of agricultural input and delivery of agricultural outputs and agriculture infrastructure. Mobile computing, cloud computing, machine learning ...