A study to determine the impacts of farmers field schools (FFS) on smallholders’ adoption of good agricultural practices in tea and to assess sustainability of smallholder tea production was conducted in the highlands of Kenya. Input-output data on tea management and on sustainability indicators (score 0-10) were collected from a sample of 120 FFS participants at the beginning of the study and ...

Although dimensional analysis suggests sound functional forms (FFs) to calculate longitudinal dispersion coefficient (Kx), no attempt has been made quantify both reliability of the estimated Kx value and its sensitivity variation FFs' parameters. This paper introduces a new index named bandwidths similarity factor (bws–factor) FFs based on rigorous distinct calibration datasets tune FFs. We mod...

the study was conducted among the two farmer groups in bhaktapur and kavre districts of nepal. the main objective of the study is to evaluate the differences in belief, attitude and practices felt by the farmers after participation in the ipm ffs. the study has been based on data collected through personal interview with the farmers, focus group discussion, personal observation in the farmers f...

INTRODUCTION Little research has been conducted into the attitudes and knowledge of dietitians-nutritionists (DN) or of experts in human nutrition and dietetics (EHND) regarding functional foods (FFs). OBJECTIVES To evaluate the knowledge of, interest in and predisposition towards FFs in Spanish DN and EHND, and how these professionals rate the potential benefits and risks associated with con...

We provide results from a study of two separate sectors within the cotton-growing region of southern Mali. In one sector, farmers have engaged in a farmer field school (FFS) training programme since 2003--the other not. One goal of the training was the adoption of alternatives to the use of hazardous insecticides, through integrated pest management (IPM) methods. Over an 8-year period, analysis...

ost experts who examine America’s persistent healthcare cost and quality problems identify fee-for-service (FFS) reimbursement as an key contributor to the system’s chronic ills. Under FFS, doctors and hospitals are paid more for doing more, not for delivering better outcomes. The economic incentives under FFS actually discourage quality improvement because care that “gets it right the first ti...

AIM The objective of this study was to evaluate the effect of feeding fermented fish silage (FFS) on serum biochemical parameters of Japanese quails (Coturnix coturnix japonica). MATERIALS AND METHODS A total of 192, 7-day-old broiler Japanese quail chicks of either sex, were randomly distributed into four dietary treatments with four replicates in each group having 12 chicks in each replicat...

Distributed arithmetic (DA) is an efficient look-up table (LUT) based approach. The throughput of DA implementation limited by the LUT size. This paper presents two high-throughput architectures (Type I and II) non-pipelined least-mean-square (LMS) adaptive filters (ADFs) using two’s complement (TC) offset-binary coding (OBC) respectively. We formulate LMS algorithm steepest descent appr...

Purpose The unique dynamics of family firms (FFs) shape the management financial crises. Religious and secular reasons, as a defining characteristic this type firm, provide reference system for key decisions. This paper aims to explore under-researched topic differences in FFs' crisis between religious decision-makers (FDMs), considering secularization developed countries. Design/methodology/ap...

Ferrofluids (FFs) are stable colloidal suspensions composed of single-domain magnetic nanoparticles dispersed in a carrier liquid. And it is an intelligent material, exhibiting normal liquid behaviour coupled with superparamagnetic properties. Since the properties and the location of these fluids can easily be influenced by a magnetic field, FFs have recently attracted many scientific, industri...