In this poster we present an approach to responding to complex questions in the agriculture domain, from specifications given by experts. We present in particular a semantic annotation procedure that would allow us to define accurate and domain dedicated forms of lexical semantics inference, in order to be able to match non factoid questions (i.e. questions whose response is a significant text ...

Digital Green is a research project that seeks to disseminate targeted agricultural information to small and marginal farmers in India using digital video. The unique components of Digital Green are (1) a participatory process for content production, (2) a locally generated digital video database, (3) human-mediated instruction for dissemination and training, and (4) regimented sequencing to in...

This paper introduces a practical e-learning system, identified as Knowledge Exchange E-learning System (abbr. KEES), for knowledge distribution in rural areas. Particularly, this paper is about providing a virtual teaching and learning environment for small holders in agriculture in those rural areas. E-learning is increasingly influencing the agricultural education (information and knowledge ...

Education is essential to raise public awareness on organic agriculture and agroecology (OA & AE). The EU funded project Organic.Edunet will provide an online, freely-available portal where learning contents on OA & AE can be published and accessed through specialized technologies. Thus, the future Organic.Edunet portal will offer advanced services (such as ontology-based searching and social r...

Global trends including population growth, changing diets and consumption patterns, urbanisation and climate change will exert increasing pressure on supplies of food and other products of ecosystems. Many experts predict that food production will need to increase by up to 100 per cent over the next forty years and some suggest that this can only be achieved through intensification of current i...

 Unlike other domesticated creatures, the house cat contributes little to human survival. Researchers have therefore wondered how and why cats came to live among people.  Experts traditionally thought that the Egyptians were the first to domesticate the cat, some 3,600 years ago.  But recent genetic and archaeological discoveries indicate that cat domestication began in the Fertile Crescent,...

In the absence of personal exposure measurements, expert assessment, generally on a case-by-case basis, is often used to estimate exposures. However, the decision processes of individual experts when making assessments are unknown, making it difficult to assess the quality of these assessments or to compare different assessments to each other. We conducted a study in primarily the textile and c...

the aim with the present research is to study the role of managerial factors on teaching quality of the members of faculty to the agriculture and natural resources department, university of tehran. this research was conducted based on a descriptive (non-experimental)-survey method. the statistical population includes 256 members of faculty teaching at agriculture and natural resources departmen...

the purpose of this research was to investigate promoter factors in nanotechnology development as related to iranian agriculture sector. the method of the research was applied survey. the target population of the study was researchers of national research centers/institutes (n=187) of whom 123 individuals were selected for the study. a questionnaire was developed and its validity evaluated thro...

Background: This study aims to estimate the factors affecting agricultural production process on problem soil of Tan Thanh district as a case develop solutions for sustainable agriculture. Methods: Through consultation with 150 households and 60 experts, Four primary 18 secondary were identified that affect land use community. Result: The results show consumption market, government organization...