The life of Herbert Windsor Mumford exemplifies the advent and progression of the professional Animal Scientist in the Land-Grant Institutions of the country. His successive roles from student of Animal Husbandry through the highest administrative posts in agricultural education, experimentation and extension, and contributions to agricultural policy and programs on a national level established...

1 Immunobiotics Research Group, Tucuman, Argentina, 2 Laboratory of Immunobiotechnology, Reference Centre for Lactobacilli (CERELA-CONICET), Tucuman, Argentina, 3 Food and Feed Immunology Group, Laboratory of Animal Products Chemistry, Graduate School of Agricultural Science, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan, 4 Livestock Immunology Unit, International Education and Research Center for Food and ...

M.L. Makgahlela, B. Fan, Z.-Q. Du and M.F. Rothschild 1 Agricultural Research Council, Private Bag X2, Irene 0062, South Africa 2 Department of Animal Science and Centre for Integrated Animal Genomics, Iowa State University, Ames, 50011, USA 3 Key Laboratory of Agricultural Animal Genetics, Breeding and Reproduction, Ministry of Education & College of Animal Science & Technology, Huazhong Agric...

This article introduces the application of Generalizability Theory to assessing the reliability of measurements. Generalizability Theory can be used to assess reliability in the presence of multiple sources of error and also can be applied to assess reliability in the presence of different types of sources of error. In particular, the application of Generalizability Theory to measurements invol...

The purpose of this study was to establish a quantitative baseline analysis and description of the verbal interaction between instructors and students in simultaneous two-way audio and video distance education settings. Additionally, the nature of the interactions of students and instructors based upon their physical location in this distance learning environment was investigated The design was...

The American higher education system has been under close scrutiny for more than a decade. The cause is clear: a lack of correspondence between that which is believed to be requiredfor critical thinking in adulthood and that which universities are teaching. The purpose of this study, therefore, was to describe the opportunities given to students to reach higher cognitive levels through professo...

Agricultural educators are confronted with a dilemma. They continue to espouse a theory of learning that requires Supervised Agricultural Experience (SAE) but their students practice fewer and fewer SAEs. The various dimensions of the theory-to-practice dilemma have not been adequately addressed by agricultural educators. Researchers have recommended changes in either espoused theories or theor...

This is an edited, multi-authored volume reporting the results of a decade-long interdisciplinary research project (1990-1999), the Research Program on Sustainability in Agriculture (REPOSA). The project was undertaken by the Wageningen Agricultural University (WAU), based in the Netherlands, and conducted in Costa Rica with two resident partner agencies, the Tropical Agricultural Research and ...