Post harvest loss has been a bane to food security in Nigeria. Although increased crop yield has been found to be feasible. Post harvest losses especially in fruits such as citrus, banana and pineapple are enormous, the marketing system of these fruits places about 75% of the burden of these losses on the fruit marketers. This study evaluated post harvest losses in fruit marketing in Lagos metr...

In this paper, we present our ongoing research on an ads quality testing tool that we call AdAlyze Redux. This tool allows advertisers to get individual best practice recommendations based on an expandable set of textual ads features, tailored to exactly the ads in an advertiser’s set of accounts. This lets them optimize their ad copies against the common online advertising key performance indi...

OBJECTIVES  To investigate the practice of post-marketing studies in Germany during a three year period and to evaluate whether these trials meet the aims specified in the German Medicinal Products Act. DESIGN  Survey of notifications submitted to German regulatory agencies before post-marketing studies were carried out, 2008-10. SETTING  Notifications obtained through freedom of informatio...

the contrary, it is a mosaic composed by a plurality of different ideologies. At any rate, at least two major forces are dominating the scene of the change: a strong, diffused commitment toward the re-composition of a fragmented society, and a general collapse of reality, which becomes more and more merely illusion and image. This implies, on one hand, the rise of a new kind of “tribes” or comm...

OBJECTIVE Post-secondary institutions provide a unique opportunity to implement and evaluate leading edge tobacco policies, while influencing a key group of young adults. To date, however, we know little about the tobacco control environment at post-secondary institutions outside the USA. DESIGN Telephone surveys were conducted with campus informants from 35 post-secondary institutions in Can...