Background and our research goal Divergent exploration of an ontology Background ■Ontology: It is important that the ontology captures the essential conceptual structure of the target world as generally as possible. ■Domain experts often want to understand the target world from the domain-specific viewpoints in which they are interested. In many cases their interests are different, even if they...

Abstract. Over the past decades, range managers have devoted extensive efforts to conserve and restore rangelands and sustain their exploitation but these efforts are more focused on the classic sciences and the exploiters' knowledge and experience have been neglected in the process. Therefore, current study was done to deal with the prioritizing and comparing factors affecting rangeland exploi...

the main purpose of this study was to investigate the level of agricultural extension entrepreneurship in the process of sustainable agricultural development. the statistical population of the study was composed of agricultural extension experts (n=2882). the method of sampling was a systematic random sampling one. questionnaire was the means employed for data collection. questionnaire validati...

When modeling expertise from multiple experts, expertise conflicts among the expertise models of the different experts must be tackled, so as to build their common expertise model. The domain level of an expertise model can be represented using Sowa’s conceptual graph formalism. This paper presents a method for conflict management during knowledge modeling from multiple experts: this method is ...

the purpose of this study was to study factors influencing the quality of secondary agricultural education from the viewpoints of teachers and students. the research method used was a descriptive and correlation design. data was collected using questionnaire. the statistical population of this study included all agricultural teachers (n=21) and students (n= 86) at secondary agricultural school ...

This paper examines the role of money in understanding the behavior of asset prices and whether and how monetary policy should react to asset prices such as stock prices and equity premiums. To do so, I introduce money via the form of transaction cost into a production economy with limited stock market participation where agents with lower inter-temporal elasticity of substitution (IES), called...

Official Veterinarians (OVs) from across the U.K. came together recently at conference organised to provide targeted CPD for their particular roles. With the theme of 'Reducing the impact of notifiable diseases in the UK', the meeting considered a wide range of topics, spanning large animal, small animal and equine issues. Georgina Mills reports on some of the sessions.