this study assessed of youth involvement in agricultural production in sabon gari local government area. the data used for this study were collected using interview schedule administered to 112 respondents who were selected through multi-stage sampling procedure. descriptive statistics such as frequency, percentages and means were used to analyze the data. the result revealed that majority (95....

Scholars studying organizations are typically discouraged from telling, in print, their own stories. The expression “telling our own stories” is used as a proxy for field-research projects that, in their written form, explicitly rely on a scholar’s personal involvement in a field. (By personal involvement in a field, I mean a scholar’s engagement in a set of mental activities that connect her t...

Scholars studying organizations are typically discouraged from telling, in print, their own stories. The expression “telling our own stories” is used as a proxy for field research projects that, in their written form, explicitly rely on a scholar’s personal involvement in a field. (By personal involvement in a field, I mean a scholar’s engagement in a set of mental activities that connect her t...

BACKGROUND Empirical research suggests that involving carers brings benefits to families and services. Consequently, drug-related policy and guidance has increasingly encouraged drug services to involve carers at all levels of service provision. OBJECTIVE To explore the purpose and scope of carer involvement with adult drug services in North-east Scotland. DESIGN, SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS A...

One factor influencing quality in the building industry is the ability of users, such as residents, to identify and express their requirements for the product, i.e. the residential building. However, the handling of communication with users in building projects has been insufficiently specified and studied. Drawing on a study of user involvement in building project design, production, and manag...

We extend the scarce research on corporate crime to include gender by developing and testing a gendered focal concerns and crime opportunities framework that predicts minimal and marginal female involvement in corporate criminal networks. Lacking centralized information, we developed a rich database covering 83 corporate frauds involving 436 defendants. We extracted information from indictments...

Working with non-academic partners and including participants, and other stakeholders, in the design and delivery of research is emerging as a critical element in the field of health research. As researchers based in an interdisciplinary team with a focus on the development of sexual health interventions, we have long recognised that engagement with individuals and communities is a critical par...

This paper demonstrates the success of women in microenterprise development to represent issues relevant to women's success in the sector. Researchers tend to use gender simply as a variable to explain success vis-avis relevant understanding of gender as a social construct. Such work disregards how culturally specific power relations influence women's opportunities for success. Gender and micro...

When students attempt to solve problems collaboratively in learning environments they may miss opportunities to use available resources for achieving learning goals. We present an approach to qualitative analysis of such "missed opportunities" ("MOs") in collaborative problem-solving interactions, and discuss how the analysis can contribute to the design of the "CHENE" Computer Supported Collab...

Abstract The Open Educational Resources (OER) movement, which aims to provide high quality teaching and learning resources to teachers and learners everywhere for free, is growing rapidly supported by foundations and institutions across the world. Over 100 institutions have joined the OpenCourseWare (OCW) initiative started by MIT. As it grows, the OER movement has encountered both opportunitie...