The Morrill Act establishing the land grant university system created public higher education institutions and paved the way for women and racial minorities to access them. Today women are -50% of the undergraduate population in animal science (AS) departments at the original land grant state universities, but racial minorities lag far behind, in part because the schools created under the 1890 ...

Do extreme values of daily-life gait characteristics provide more information about fall risk than median values? Abstract Background. Gait characteristics estimated from daily-life trunk accelerations reflect gait quality and are associated with fall incidence in older adults. While associations are based on median values of these gait characteristics, their extreme values may reflect either h...

OVERVIEW In a market setting, a business undertakes many operations to provide product (good or service) to its customers. Each of these operations receives an input (raw material, labour, throughput) and transforms it into an output. An operation is effective if it creates an output having more value than its input. The value added by each operation justifies its raison être in the business. T...

Agriculture accounts for a very high proportion of total employment in the LDCs. In extreme cases more than 90 per cent of employment is accounted for by the agricultural sector, the ratio being generally very high for the LDCs in SSA. Together with the very low value added per worker in agriculture, this strongly indicates that a high proportion of the individuals counted as being employed in ...

The emerging service-dominant logic requires cooperation between several partners in a value-added network or value chain. Information asymmetry and information gaps may lead to uncovered and unused knowledge. This paper addresses how this problem can be solved by suggesting an approach based on contingency theory. The core idea consists of supporting and improving value-added partnerships by e...

Value added product is an industrial term referring a minor addiction to some major products. In this paper, we borrow a term to denote a minor semantic addition to the well known association rules. We consider the addition of numerical values to the attribute values, such as sale price, profit, degree of fuzziness, level of security and so on. Such additions lead to the notion of random variab...

This study were examined relationship between bank credits and investment growth of agricultural sector in Iran during the period of 1982-2011 by auto regressive distribution lag bounds test approach. Basically, the growth investing of the agricultural sector in Iran is related to oil revenues, bank credits, value added of agriculture sector and capital stock. The results confirm the existence ...