the purpose of this study was to analyze biotechnology experts’ attitude in university centers of tehran province towards use of transgenic plants. the design of the study was descriptive, and it was carried out through a survey method. the target population consisted of biotechnology experts in university centers of tehran province (n=75). though kerjcie and morgan sample size table and ratio ...

the statistical population of this study was agricultural extension agents. sampling method was stratified random sampling and questionnaire used as research instrument, its validity achieved by a group of experts of icts and agricultural extension and education and reliability was 0.76 that was estimated by cronbach’s alpha. extension agents with scores lower than 47 considered in negative att...

  According to statistics released by agricultural insurance fund (AIF) less than 4 million acres out of 90 million acres has been covered by Pastures Insurance. This observation along with several facts motivated authors to study possible barriers which Pastures Insurance has been encountered in practice. The research population included all the experts in agricultural insurance fund. Small po...

The participation of business experts in the elicitation and formulation of Information Assurance & Security (IAS) requirements is crucial. Although business experts have security-related knowledge, there is still no formalised business process modelling notation allowing them to express this knowledge in a clear, unambiguous manner. In this paper we outline the foundational basis for SecureBPM...

the main purpose of this study was to investigate experts’ perceptions of barriers to organic farming in ministry of agriculture. the population of this survey consisted of the experts in department of horticultural products, ministry of agriculture in 2008-2009 (n= 160). using of kerejcie and morgan table, 113 experts were selected through stratified random sampling method. validity of the ins...

The main objective of this study was identifying the effects of educational, extension and research factors on the development of medicinal plants in Markazi Province of Iran. The statistical population included all managers, extension agents and experts involved in medicinal plants in Markazi Province in 2014 (N = 50), who were selected by the census sampling method (n=50). The research instru...

the successful adoption of e-learning systems is mainly dependent on the learners’ attitude and willingness to use them. this survey was conducted to investigate agricultural extension workers’ attitudes toward using e-learning for on-the-job training in iran and factors which affect it. using the stratified sampling technique a sample of 379 extension workers were selected from six provinces. ...

Abstract Ontologies store semantic knowledge in a machine-readable way and represent domain controlled vocabulary. In this work, workflow is set up to derive classes from text dataset using natural language processing (NLP) methods. Furthermore, ontologies thesauri are browsed for those corresponding existing textual definitions extracted. A base ontology selected be extended with catalysis sci...

the main purpose followed in the ongoing research was to investigate the role of the extension factors (experience of familiarity with agricultural extension services, participation of paddy farmers in extension - educational courses, their participation in farmer field school (ffs) programs, and their number of extension contacts regarding ipm) in the adoption of ipm technology among paddy far...

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