Background: Dolichos bean occupies a unique position among the legume vegetables of Indian origin for its high nutritive value and wider climatic adaptability. Despite wide genetic diversity, no much effort has been undertaken towards improvement this vegetable crop. Knowledge on variability is an essential pre-requisite as hybrid between two diverse parental lines generates broad spectrum in s...

Using a cluster-randomised design, this study analyses the effects of a government-administered skill training programme for social workers in Norway. The training programme aims to improve social workers' professional competences by enhancing and systematising follow-up work directed towards longer-term unemployed clients in the following areas: encountering the user, system-oriented efforts a...

The Finnish Centres of Expertise (CoE) Programme has been an integral part of Finnish regional innovation policy since 1994. Its objective has been to create a strong network of centres of expertise supporting specialisation and cooperation between regions, and by so doing increasing regional competitiveness. The recent evaluation of the programme shows that that the programme can still make a ...

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The Cardiff Commitment Continuing Professional Development (CPD) programme was a collaboration between Council, and Vale College Open University (OU). Initial contact with Council’s Schools Service (Cardiff Council) began discussions around supporting teacher CPD needs through co-designed focussed workshop. Global Covid19 Pandemic resulted in this being extensively redesigned to reflect the nee...

This study was conducted in Abia state, Nigeria with specific objectives to: describe socio economic characteristics of ADP and non-ADP contact farmers; estimate profitability level of the two farmer groups; compare profitability of cassava production among the two farmer groups; determine factors that influence profitability of ADP and non-ADP contact cassava farmers and identify problems cons...

Finally, Adams et al. maintain that we did not take into account objective observation to ensure nurses ' fi delity to the principles of MI. In a separate paper [6], we reported MI skills based on 340 videos of nurse consultations. We believe that this activity informs us regarding the nurses ' fi delity, because we rated actual behaviour. Few studies have reported on actual MI behaviour so ext...