the interest for the spatial dimensions of agricultural development has been recently increased. this paper aimed at redefining the spatial patterns of agriculture to formulate appropriate strategies based on regional potentials. a composite agricultural development indicator (cadi), which is useful for the identification of spatial structure, has been developed. the developed composite index (...

purpose: the present study examines the relationship between job related dimensions and job satisfaction of teaching staff of b-schools in india using structure equation modeling (lisrel 8.5). methodology: the study is based on a single cross-sectional survey. in all three hundred ten responses were generated from teachers of management institutes located inindia. a self-administered questionna...

We consider a monopolist expert offering a service with a ‘credence’ characteristic. A credence service is one where the customer cannot verify, even after a purchase, whether the amount of prescribed service was appropriate or not; examples include legal, medical or consultancy services and car repair. This creates an incentive for the expert to ‘induce service’, that is, to provide unnecessar...

When a company undertakes e-commerce transactions for the first time, most major web sites set the initial credit score of the company as zero, which making buyers and sellers can’t judge the partners’ credibility. In recent years, although commercial banks and some specialized credit rating agencies have established more comprehensive and scientific indicators for evaluating the credit of an e...

GRACEnet (greenhouse gas reduction through agricultural carbon enhancement network) is a new research program initiated by the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). The primary objectives of GRACEnet are to identify and develop agricultural strategies that will enhance soil C sequestration and reduce greenhouse gas emissions and to provide a ...

1Division of Therapeutic Proteins, Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Bethesda, MD; 2Department of Dermatology, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine and Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Japan; 3Genetics and Molecular Biology Branch, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD; 4Transgenic Mouse Fa...

The study evaluated the effect of IFAD credit supply on rural farmers in Rivers State. Data for the study were collected using a structured questionnaire administered to 90 farmer’s beneficiaries using a multi-stage sampling technique. The regression result shows that semi-log function gave the best fit with the highest value of coefficient of multiple determination (R 2 ) of 0.8758 and seven e...

Farmland values are booming across much of the nation and farm credit conditions are solid. There are few exceptions to these broad-based trends according to results of surveys of agricultural credit conditions conducted by several Federal Reserve district banks. Farm and ranch land values have been climbing in recent years, but have showed particular strength since mid-2004. Strong farm income...