Agricultural producers have been experiencing significant income pressures, leading to a search for alternative sources of income. One of such is value-added agricultural businesses that allow the farmers to stay on the farm and undertake entrepreneurial ventures to improve their finances. How do farmers make sense of their environment as they consider their options for value-added business ven...

In a developing economy the real profitability of an industry needs to be assessed neither on the basis of its increasing rate of return nor on investment in relative terms. In recent decades another or additional approach has been used for measuring the success of an organisation i.e. “Value added statement” (VAS). The value added statement can be defined as a statement of the value created by...

It is recognized that the usual output of a fault tree analysis in some studies is not sufficiently informative. For added value in a widely used instrument for doing risk analyses, a Markovian approach is suggested. It is shown how to extend the calculations of the standard fault tree gates, so that information is available not only on the failure probability at the top level, but also on esti...

Abstract: This paper discusses the development and trial of a Wireless Exhibition Guide that employs mobile, wireless, and indoor positioning technologies to introduce sophisticated information, communication, and navigation exhibition services, thus, leveraging the value proposition of exhibition stakeholders. Results indicate user acceptance of the system and provide guidance towards the futu...

The Tennessee Value-Added Assessment System determines the effectiveness of school systems, schools, and teachers based on student academic growth over time. An integral part of TVAAS is a massive, longitudinally merged database linking students and student outcomes to the schools and systems in which they are enrolled and to the teachers to whom they are assigned as they transition from grade ...

Background: Both in vivo derived (IVD) and in vitro produced (IVP) embryos in cattle have been transferred worldwide for many decades with great success. Among the many reasons for this to occur, one concerns the Biosecurity issues which if managed adequately may add a significant value to this Embryo Transfer (ET) technology. There are a number of conditions for this to be the case. Review: Th...

Nutraceuticals are important natural bioactive compounds that confer health-promoting and medical benefits to humans. Globally growing demands for value-added nutraceuticals for prevention and treatment of human diseases have rendered nutraceuticals a multi-billion dollar market. However, supply limitations and extraction difficulties from natural sources such as plants, animals or fungi, restr...