The application of Information Technologies into Precision Agriculture methods has clear benefits. Precision Agriculture optimises production efficiency, increases quality, minimises environmental impact and reduces the use of resources (energy, water); however, there are different barriers that have delayed its wide development. Some of these main barriers are expensive equipment, the difficul...

AGR/CA/APM(2001)24/FINAL 2 Foreword Governments in OECD countries intervene in agriculture with a view to achieving a wide range of economic and social objectives, in particular the improvement of farm household incomes. This study investigates how efficient some of the most commonly used policy interventions — referred to as the transfer efficiency of support measures with respect to income — ...

BACKGROUND Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF) is a tick-borne infectious disease that has a considerable mortality risk and is a challenge for the population of endemic rural areas and health care workers. This study investigated the epidemiologic features and main risk factors of CCHF in Samsun Province, Turkey, using CCHF cases diagnosed from 2007 to 2011 recorded by the Samsun Provincial...

July 2010 Ian Scoones ([email protected]) is a Professorial Fellow at the Institute for Development Studies at the University of Sussex and the co-director of the STEPS Centre and joint convenor of the Future Agricultures Consortium. Alec Bishi ([email protected]) is Veterinary Epidemiologist at the Directorate of Veterinary Services, Ministry of Agriculture, Water and Forestry, Governmen...

The Directorate of Communications and Information Technology Transformation (CITT Directorate) have a task in realizing the strategic plan of the General Directorate of Taxes through the modernization of the IS / IT efficiently and optimally. To assess the level of efficiency and optimizing the use of IT, the measurement process is required on an ongoing basis. In this research, the measurement...

Word Count: 249 (including titles) Main Text Word count: 1422 (including titles) Number of tables: 2 Deemed exempt from full review by University Research Ethics Committee (UREC) (University of Dundee, UREC Reference number: 11077) This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: ‘Bedside Teaching: Specialists versus Non-specialists’, Clinical Teacher 13:2 (2016), which has been publ...

BACKGROUND An interdisciplinary team approach concept has been proposed for management of oro-facial cleft in the last two decades. Our objective was to evaluate the practice of the team approach concept and practices of the specialists involved in oro-facial cleft care in Africa. MATERIALS AND METHODS A snapshot survey was conducted among the attendees of the 2 nd Pan-African Congress on Cle...

BACKGROUND Cleft palate craniofacial teams have evolved across the globe in the last 20 years in compliance with the interdisciplinary concept of management of oro-facial clefts. An interdisciplinary care allows a coordinated treatment protocol for the patient. The objective of this study was to evaluate oro-facial cleft care in Nigeria with particular emphasis on the compliance of the practiti...