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Sarwono, Eko, Selviana Selviana, and Ismail Saleh. "PEMBERDAYAAN SUKU DAYAK PEDALAMAN MELALUI INOVASI PERTANIAN, EKONOMI, PENDIDIKAN DAN KESEHATAN TERPADU UNTUK MEWUJUDKAN MASYARAKAT SEHAT, CERDAS, DAN SEJAHTERA DI DAERAH TERTINGGAL KALIMANTAN BARAT." Jurnal Buletin Al-Ribaath 14, no. 1 (July 5, 2017): 9. http://dx.doi.org/10.29406/br.v14i1.578.
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The majority of indigenous Dayak farmers in Toho district encounter several issues. Their productivity was varied seasonally. In the rainy season, they were difficult to dry paddy in the sun. They also required costly diesel to fuel their threshing machines. In the health area, this region ever promulgated to set up Desa Siaga, but until now the discourse has not been realized. Health coverages such as childbirth by medical labor, exclusive breastfeeding, PHBS, and environmental sanitation were extremely low. This programs empowered dayak farmer community through Innovations in Agriculture, Economics, Education and Health Integrated (PERENDIKESDU). The programs included (a) Increasing the entrepreneurial agricultural economics, methods/concept used to overcome the problems, namely: the establishment and coaching a group of women farmers, training of making rice with simple biomass drying machine and simple threshing machine, training nursery plantation processing, packaging socialization plantation products. (b) Establishment and Development of alert village, methods which are used to treat the problems namely: workshops, health promotion include counseling on health behavior, socialization healthy latrines, clean water supply, sanitation, training of village cadres standby and Posyandu cadres, management training standby village, ground socialization land use for medicinal plant families (toga). (c) Elimination of illiteracy, methods which are used to treat the problems, namely: the implementation of training for creating collages, mosaics, and a montage of simple materials, realization Morance training methods, training of cadres illiteracy, the establishment of home building illiteracy. Keywords: Agriculture, Economics, Education, Health, PERENDIKESDU, Dayak.The majority of indigenous Dayak farmers in Toho district encounter several issues. Their productivity was varied seasonally. In the rainy season, they were difficult to dry paddy in the sun. They also required costly diesel to fuel their threshing machines. In the health area, this region ever promulgated to set up Desa Siaga, but until now the discourse has not been realized. Health coverages such as childbirth by medical labor, exclusive breastfeeding, PHBS, and environmental sanitation were extremely low. This programs empowered dayak farmer community through Innovations in Agriculture, Economics, Education and Health Integrated (PERENDIKESDU). The programs included (a) Increasing the entrepreneurial agricultural economics, methods/concept used to overcome the problems, namely: the establishment and coaching a group of women farmers, training of making rice with simple biomass drying machine and simple threshing machine, training nursery plantation processing, packaging socialization plantation products. (b) Establishment and Development of alert village, methods which are used to treat the problems namely: workshops, health promotion include counseling on health behavior, socialization healthy latrines, clean water supply, sanitation, training of village cadres standby and Posyandu cadres, management training standby village, ground socialization land use for medicinal plant families (toga). (c) Elimination of illiteracy, methods which are used to treat the problems, namely: the implementation of training for creating collages, mosaics, and a montage of simple materials, realization Morance training methods, training of cadres illiteracy, the establishment of home building illiteracy. Keywords: Agriculture, Economics, Education, Health, PERENDIKESDU, Dayak.
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Falconer, Tasha. "Mac at war: Women’s work and education at the Macdonald Institute during the First and Second World Wars." SURG Journal 9, no. 1 (April 9, 2017): 40–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.21083/surg.v9i1.3818.
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In 1903, the Macdonald Institute opened in Guelph with the stated aim of training rural women in home economics and domestic science. Part of the Ontario Agriculture College (OAC), the school progressed quickly and soon became an invaluable resource for both Canadian and international women. Over the years, the “Mac girls” made their mark on the world, including during the two World Wars. Under the leadership of directors Mary Watson during the First World War, and Olive Cruikshank during part of the Second World War, the Macdonald Institute supported the war effort in several ways. These included adapting curricula to the exigencies of wartime, and sending material overseas. The Macdonald Institute initially remained open during the Second World War, yet in 1941, standard classes ceased for five years as the Royal Canadian Air Force’s (RCAF) No. 4 Wireless School took control of the Institute’s buildings and property. Throughout this period of closure, women arrived to live and attend classes at the Wireless School as part of the RCAF’s Women’s Division and School of Cookery. Throughout the two World Wars, women associated with the Macdonald Institute and the No. 4 Wireless School, including students, graduates, instructors, and members of the Women’s Division, variously involved themselves with the war effort. The activities of the Macdonald Institute, and of the No. 4 Wireless School, afford an opportunity to examine how women’s work and education was viewed, deployed, and reallocated throughout the two World Wars.
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Manthiou, Aikaterini, Juhee Kang, and Thomas Schrier. "A visitor-based brand equity perspective: the case of a public festival." Tourism Review 69, no. 4 (November 11, 2014): 264–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/tr-04-2014-0016.
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Purpose – This paper aims to empirically examine how five different brand equity dimensions of a festival brand (i.e. awareness, image, quality, value and loyalty) are inter-related. Specifically, this study aims to examine the impact of brand awareness on perceived brand image, perceived brand quality and perceived value; the impact of perceived brand image on perceived brand quality and brand loyalty; and the impact of perceived brand quality on perceived value and brand loyalty. Design/methodology/approach – The conceptual model was tested with an onsite sample of a public festival referred to as the VEISHEA (Veterinary Medicine, Engineering, Industrial Science, Home Economics and Agriculture) festival, which is located in a Midwestern college-town. Confirmatory factor analysis and structural equation modeling were used to reach the goals of the study. Findings – The findings revealed that improving attendees’ awareness is a keystone in promoting brand quality perceptions, increasing perceived value and creating favorable brand image. Perceptions of quality on brand loyalty were stronger than any other effect, pointing out the need for superior quality. These findings confirmed that a public festival which does not require visitor admission fees can increase visitors by utilizing branding strategies, as has been done with other types of festivals. Research limitations/implications – This research was conducted at a public festival. Further study should be conducted at other festivals/events. Analysis of antecedents such as advertising and promotions in the brand equity creation process will provide further important information. Practical implications – This study provides guidance for practitioners to manage festival brands properly and develop strategies (e.g. communications and promotions) which reinforce the intangible asset of brand equity. Originality/value – This is the first study that applies the brand equity concept to the setting of public festivals. This application to a new context contributes to the body of knowledge of brand equity theory.
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C. S., Oaya, Omar K. B., and Hammangabdo I. "Evaluation of Seedling Establishment Palatability and Acceptability Tests of Groundnut Seeds as Influenced by Levels of Whole Powder of Hyptis suaveolens L. Poit and Climatic Conditions." Journal of Agriculture and Crops, no. 71 (November 19, 2020): 1–6. http://dx.doi.org/10.32861/jac.71.1.6.
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The tests for the evaluation of seedling establishment, palatability and acceptability were carried out at the Teaching and Research Farm of the Department of Agricultural Technology and the Food Laboratory of the Department of Home and Rural Economics, Adamawa State College of Agriculture, Ganye, Adamawa State. The experimental designs used were Randomized Complete Block Design and the Completely Randomized Design. Some of the parameters measured were percentage seedling establishment, palatability, and acceptability tests. The highest mean percentage seedling establishment was observed in 12.00g levels of H. suaveolens whole powder treated shelled groundnut seeds (97.67, 97.00, and 94.00) at the three periods of storage. Percentage seedling establishment decreased with a decrease in levels of H. suaveolens whole powder. One of the major constraints to the use of plant materials as an alternative to synthetic insecticides is the issue of standardization in dosage of application. This work has suggested that, if groundnut seeds are to be used for sowing, they should be stored with a 12.00g level of H. suaveolens whole powder for every 300.00g for three months. However, if they are to be used for consumption, they could be stored with a 6.00g level of H. suaveolens whole powder for every 300.00g for at most three months. There was no significant difference between treated and untreated shelled groundnut seeds at the three periods of storage on the acceptability and palatability score of cooked groundnut at all dosages of application. All treatments were within the acceptable score rates even though the two rates of the synthetic insecticides, actellic dust were at the lowest acceptable score rate. The finding also showed that acceptability and palatability decreased with an increase in dosage of application. The periods of storage also had a significant impact on the mean percentage seedling establishment. It was observed that there was a higher percentage of seedling establishment when shelled groundnut seeds were stored from November- January. At this period of the year, the temperature and humidity are usually low and this might have necessitated the high state of inactivity and low performance of the bruchids compared to other periods of storage within the year.
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Mohammed, Shan. "The role of intellectual capital in enhancing organizational creativity, "An exploratory study of a sample of teachers in a number of government colleges in the city of Dohuk."." Humanities Journal of University of Zakho 8, no. 4 (December 30, 2020): 610–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.26436/hjuoz.2020.8.4.650.
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The current research sought to identify the intellectual capital and organizational creativity by analyzing the relationship and effect between these two variables within the framework of a random sample consisting of (76) faculty respondents in the faculties of (administration and economics, engineering, pharmacy, literature, agriculture, medicine) at the University of Duhok, The research provided a theoretical briefing on intellectual capital and organizational creativity, as well as identifying the nature of the relationship and impact that exist between these two variables, The model adopted correlation and one-way effect, and the research was based on a set of hypotheses that were surveyed on the research sample, as several statistical tools were used to analyze data, including description and diagnosis of the sample and Pearson correlation analysis, In addition to analyzing simple linear regression to determine the nature of the effect between the variables under study, the research reached a number of conclusions, the most important of which are: There is a positive significant correlation relationship between the components of intellectual capital separately and organizational creativity collectively, There is an influential relationship of moral significance for the components of intellectual capital separately in organizational creativity in a collective manner. It was also proposed to motivate managers in the researched colleges by providing opportunities to participate in courses at home and abroad in order to develop their creative skills.
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Kumar, Manik, and Nripendra Kishore Mishra. "Determinants of Home Based Work in Non-Agriculture Sector of India." Indian Journal of Labour Economics 62, no. 3 (August 31, 2019): 451–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s41027-019-00181-w.
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Marthers, Paul Philip. "Sweeping Out Home Economics: Curriculum Reform at Connecticut College for Women, 1952–1962." History of Education Quarterly 51, no. 3 (August 2011): 362–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1748-5959.2011.00340.x.
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At the moment of its founding in 1911, Connecticut College for Women exhibited a curricular tension between an emphasis on the liberal arts, which mirrored the elite men's and women's colleges of the day, and vocational aspects, which made it a different type of women's college, one designed to prepare women for the kind of lives they would lead in twentieth-century America. Connecticut was a women's college that simultaneously embraced the established brand of education practiced by its prestigious Seven Sister neighbors and forged its own path by integrating elements of home economics, municipal housekeeping, and professional/clerical training into its academic program. For forty years Connecticut College for Women achieved a balance between those two opposing poles of its curriculum.
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Durham, Richard E., John R. Hartman, and Monte P. Johnson. "393 The University of Kentucky Home Landscape IPM Program." HortScience 35, no. 3 (June 2000): 460E—460. http://dx.doi.org/10.21273/hortsci.35.3.460e.
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A home landscape integrated pest management (IPM) extension program has been initiated in the Univ. of Kentucky College of Agriculture. In order for this program to be effective, activities must integrate aspects of general landscape management with pest management. The main tenets of the project encompass four areas: making wise choices when selecting plants for the landscape; practicing proper planting and transplanting techniques; maintaining the health of the plant in the landscape using proper watering, fertilizing, and pruning techniques; and practicing an integrated approach to managing pests in the landscape. Outreach mechanisms for this project include the preparation and broadcast of radio scripts, the production of educational videos for use by county agents, print material, and addition of a home landscape IPM section to the Univ. of Kentucky IPM web page. Examples of these activities will be presented. The initial emphasis of the program is on woody landscape plants; however, other areas of landscape management, including annuals and perennials, turf, and home fruit and vegetables, will be added as time and funding allow. This outreach program may be the first exposure many people have to IPM principles and thus it will play an important roll in educating the public to integrated pest management practices that are a vital part of modern agriculture production.
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Smith, Jonathan. "The Effect of College Applications on Enrollment." B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy 14, no. 1 (December 25, 2013): 151–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/bejeap-2013-0002.
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Abstract This article investigates determinants of the number of four-year colleges to which students apply and how the number of applications affects their probabilities of enrollment. To estimate the effect on enrollment, I use a novel instrument: the adoption rate of the Common Application near a student’s home. I find that applying to one additional college increases students’ likelihood of enrollment, but only for those applying to very few colleges. Going from one to two applications and two to three applications increases students’ probabilities of enrollment by 40% and 10%, respectively. This is partially due to the increase in the probability of being accepted to some college but also due to the increase in the probability of choosing to enroll, conditional on being accepted.
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Gunandar, Maria Stephanie, and Muhana Sofiati Utami. "Hubungan antara Dukungan Sosial Orang Tua dengan Penyesuaian Diri Mahasiswa Baru yang Merantau." Gadjah Mada Journal of Psychology (GamaJoP) 3, no. 2 (February 7, 2019): 98. http://dx.doi.org/10.22146/gamajop.43441.
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Adjustment in the freshmen students that leaving home for college is a process for an individual facing changes and learning to fit in with a new environment. The aim of the study is to determine the correlation between parental social-support with adjustment of the freshmen that leaving home for college. The subjects of the study are 96 undergraduates grade 2016 from several faculties of Universitas Gadjah Mada, they are Psychology, Economics and Business, also Social and Politics. Subjects are chosen by using purposive sampling method. Product Moment correlation analysis showed that there was association between parental social support with adjustment of the freshmen that leaving home for college with 0,317 as the correlation score. There was a positive and significant correlation between parental social-support with adjustment of the freshmen that leaving home for college.
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Hoffschwelle, Mary S. "The Science of Domesticity: Home Economics at George Peabody College for Teachers, 1914-1939." Journal of Southern History 57, no. 4 (November 1991): 659. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2210600.
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Collins, William J., and Robert A. Margo. "Race and Home Ownership from the End of the Civil War to the Present." American Economic Review 101, no. 3 (May 1, 2011): 355–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1257/aer.101.3.355.
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We present new estimates of home ownership for black and white households from 1870 to 2007. Black ownership increased by 46 percentage points, whereas white ownership increased by 20 points. Remarkably, 25 of the 26 point narrowing occurred between 1870 and 1910. Part of this early convergence is accounted for by falling white ownership due to movement out of agriculture, but most is accounted for by post-emancipation gains among blacks. After 1910, white and black households increased ownership, but the racial gap barely changed. We discuss the influence of residential segregation, public policy, and permanent income on the ownership gap.
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Coleman, B. Jay. "Team Travel Effects and the College Football Betting Market." Journal of Sports Economics 18, no. 4 (March 5, 2015): 388–425. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1527002515574514.
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This research examines whether the college football betting line and over/under accurately assimilate travel effects on visiting teams, including time zones traversed; direction and distance traveled; and temperature, elevation, and aridity changes. We investigate the market’s accuracy at predicting winners, point differentials, and points scored and examine its market efficiency, that is, whether travel affects the chance the home team covers the spread or the chance that an “over” bet wins. The betting market is found to be an inaccurate and inefficient processor of travel effects, most consistently for late-season games involving an underdog with a 1-hr time deficit versus its opponent.
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Johnson, Donald M. "A Comparison Of Transfer And Nontransfer Agriculture And Home Economics Undergraduate Students: Academic Aptitude, Acheivement, And Degree Persistance." Journal of Agricultural Education 33, no. 3 (September 1992): 8–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.5032/jae.1992.02008.
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Brunner, Michael Philipp. "Teaching development: Debates on ‘scientific agriculture’ and ‘rural reconstruction’ at Khalsa College, Amritsar, c. 1915–47." Indian Economic & Social History Review 55, no. 1 (January 2018): 77–132. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0019464617745924.
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The article looks at the planning, introduction and expansion of agricultural education, farming, dairying, co-operation and other related rural economy schemes at Khalsa College, Amritsar (KCA), the first and biggest Sikh higher educational institution in the colonial Punjab, between ca. 1915 and 1947. It examines a set of agricultural initiatives started in the second half of the 1910s as an early attempt at rural reconstruction, and analyses how they were debated among the contemporary paternalist Punjab administration as well as among advocates of ‘rural reconstruction’ across India. The article scrutinises in particular how the Khalsa College had to look for new ways to reinforce its claim of being a lighthouse institution for the dissemination of ‘modern’ and ‘scientific’ agricultural knowledge under the dyarchy system of the interwar years. Through a detailed reconstruction of the college’s engagement with both a national and a transnational development discourse in the final decades of the colonial period, it is shown that ‘agricultural science’ was understood at the KCA as a universal tool for development. As it was not perceived as inherently ‘Western’, there was no need to ‘vernacularise’ it. Revealingly, the USA in particular became a popular destination and point of reference for higher studies in agriculture and rural economics. The college’s various agricultural schemes were consistently legitimised by the well-entrenched orientalist narrative of the supposedly ‘rural’ and ‘practical’ character of the Sikh, the KCA and its ideas on rural development regularly shifted between imperial, nationalist and communal concerns. At the same time, however, its focus on the education of a class of scientifically trained rural specialists paralleled the state-led and expert-driven approaches shared by most nationalist enterprises and the colonial state.
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McAlpine, C. J. "Mrs Isabella Elder, LL.D., Pioneer and Philanthropist." Scottish Medical Journal 33, no. 2 (April 1988): 249–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/003693308803300210.
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Mrs Isabella Elder contributed much during her lifetime to further the education of women of all ages and of all levels of attainment. She gifted North Park House to Queen Margaret College in Glasgow as a home in 1884. With her encouragement a medical school for women in Glasgow was opened in Queen Margaret College in 1890. The standard was high and when women were admitted to the Universities in 1892, the first Queen Margaret medical students were able to graduate in 1894. She pioneered a system of teaching home economics in Govan, assisted the development of a district nursing service and built the Elder Cottage Hospital.
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Alnusair, Dalal M. "Student Evaluation of Teaching effectiveness in the Girls College of Home Economics and Art Education in Riyadh." Journal of Educational & Psychological Sciences 07, no. 04 (December 1, 2006): 13–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.12785/jeps/070401.
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König, Ralf Martin. "Zwischen Ausbeutung, Förderung und Reglementierung: Textile Kriegsheimarbeit in Deutschland 1914 bis 1918." Jahrbuch für Wirtschaftsgeschichte / Economic History Yearbook 58, no. 2 (November 27, 2017): 537–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/jbwg-2017-0020.
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Abstract This essay intends to provide an introduction into an interesting aspect of the German war economy of the First World War not previously examined in detail: home-based outwork for the production of military supplies. In particular, this type of home-based outwork enjoyed great popularity amongst women with no previous experience of this form of work, such as soldiers’ wives and war widows. They were supported by various charitable welfare societies and women’s organizations which campaigned for public welfare during the war. Their efforts included the establishment of sewing rooms in which military home-based outwork was provided as emergency work. Orders were supplied by the military procurement bodies of the German Reich. Although many potential workers were thus withheld from the armaments industry, the development was not seen as a problem by the military administration. However, it did react critically to the many cases in which particularly female home workers were duped by firms when picking up their work. Especially in the area around Berlin, the military authorities intervened vigorously to enforce standard wages for the home workers sewing military uniforms. Nevertheless, the year 1916 marks a turning point: This benevolent stance on home-based outwork changed under the pressure of new employment priorities. New contract regulations made military home-based outwork difficult for unskilled male and female workers to access. These were in theory then available to work in the armaments industry and in agriculture, areas both struggling to meet labour demands. Moreover, the changes led to an organizational separation between sandbag sewing and other home-based outwork involved in producing textiles for the military. In the case of sandbag sewing, a separate war committee was responsible for the planned distribution of sandbag orders throughout the whole Reich.
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Bisht, Deepika, and Rupa Bakhshi. "Knowledge of computer ergonomics and incidence of musculoskeletal disorders among students of Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, India." Journal of Applied and Natural Science 10, no. 1 (March 1, 2018): 323–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.31018/jans.v10i1.1625.
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Each year, thousands of individuals are diagnosed with an illness directly related to poorly designed workstations, and among these are Musculoskeletal Disorders (MSDs). MSDs are the repeated trauma and deterioration of the tissues, joint, tendons, and nerves that affect the muscles and supporting structures of the body, caused by the work nature or by an employee’s working environment (Bernard 1997). The prevalence of Work-related Musculoskeletal Disorders (WMSD‘s) is increasing among Computer users throughout the world. Approximately 76% of Computer professionals from India reported musculoskeletal discomfort in various epidemiological studies. So, the present study was undertaken to study computer/laptop use pattern and knowledge of related ergonomic practices among students of Punjab Agricultural University (PAU), Ludhiana, India and to assess the prevalence and magnitude of computer/laptop use related MSDs among students. 120 students pursuing post-graduation were selected randomly from the four different disciplines namely College of Agriculture, College of Agriculture Engineering and Technology, College of Basic Sciences and Humanities and College of Home Science of PAU. Results revealed that majority of the respondents were in the age group of 26-27 years. They were using computer/laptop for 3-4 years, for 3-4 hours daily and they used to sit in bed while working on computer/laptop. Majority of the respondents had some knowledge about the importance of work behavior while using computer/laptop. Most of the total respondents felt pain in the neck (88.32%), lower back (75.00%), mid back (73.33%) and upper back (72.50%) while working on computer/laptop. Overall bodily fatigue or tiredness, shoulder or back pain/stiffness and headache during or after working on the computer were the major symptoms as reported by respondents
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Mönkediek, Bastian, Jan Kok, and Kees Mandemakers. "The Impact of Family Setting and Local Opportunities on Leaving Home and Migration Destinations of Rural Youths, The Netherlands 1860-1940." Historical Life Course Studies 3 (November 2, 2015): 43–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.51964/hlcs9353.
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In this article we aim to study how Dutch children’s individual destinies result from the complex interplay of family setting and local conditions in a rural environment. We focus on their final move from the parental home, and we will analyse not only timing and incidence of leaving, but also the destinations. To do this, we propose a multi-level competing risk analysis of migration destinations. We focus on two groups: the children of farmers and those of rural workers. Dutch farmers and workers differ in the type of family economy in which children were integrated, and contrasting them will allow us to explain the speed, the directions, and the individual and family backgrounds of the process of leaving agriculture. We make use of the Historical Sample of the Netherlands to analyse last migrations of 8,338 children of farmers and rural workers. As we cover the entire country, we can study the full impact of regional differences on type of agriculture and inheritance, in combination with the family composition. Our results indicate significant effects of specialised versus traditional, mixed farming on the migration behaviour of farmers’ and rural workers’ children, as well as the importance of the number of siblings of the same sex and birth order. The variations in the effects of the sibship among regions with different agricultural systems demonstrate the importance of gender-specific divisions of labour on leaving home.
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Aizsila, Anita. "Co-operation of the Latvia University of Agriculture with Schools." SOCIETY, INTEGRATION, EDUCATION. Proceedings of the International Scientific Conference 1 (May 30, 2015): 24. http://dx.doi.org/10.17770/sie2013vol1.149.
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The article summarises experience of co-operation within three years (2010-2012) of the Institute of Education and Home Economics (IEHE) of Latvia University of Agriculture (LLU), Zemgale Region Competence Center and schools of Zemgale in consulting of research work of pupils. A topical problem – research work of pupils in the process of studies – has been investigated. The lecturers of the LLU support the teachers of schools in advising the learners’ research work. The aim of the article is conscious and substantiated necessity for co-operation of the university and schools in development of research papers of pupils. In the article 439 research papers of learners are theoretically and empirically analysed, summarized and evaluated. The influence of society on the development of the learners’ research skills has been clarified. The research work competition winners get LLU certificates that allow for entering the faculties of the university without competition after finishing school. Receiving of the certificate is a stimulus for further research.
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Hoxby, Caroline M. "The Changing Selectivity of American Colleges." Journal of Economic Perspectives 23, no. 4 (November 1, 2009): 95–118. http://dx.doi.org/10.1257/jep.23.4.95.
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Over the past few decades, the average college has not become more selective: the reverse is true, though not dramatically. People who believe that college selectivity is increasing may be extrapolating from the experience of a small number of colleges such as members of the Ivy League, Stanford, Duke, and so on. These colleges have experienced rising selectivity, but their experience turns out to be the exception rather than the rule. Only the top 10 percent of colleges are substantially more selective now than they were in 1962. Moreover, at least 50 percent of colleges are substantially less selective now than they were in 1962. To understand changing selectivity, we must focus on how the market for college education has re-sorted students among schools as the costs of distance and information have fallen. In the past, students' choices were very sensitive to the distance of a college from their home, but today, students, especially high-aptitude students, are far more sensitive to a college's resources and student body. It is the consequent re-sorting of students among colleges that has, at once, caused selectivity to rise in a small number of colleges while simultaneously causing it to fall in other colleges. This has had profound implications for colleges' resources, tuition, and subsidies for students. I demonstrate that the stakes associated with choosing a college are greater today than they were four decades ago because very selective colleges are offering very large per-student resources and per-student subsidies, enabling admitted students to make massive human capital investments.
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Lee, EunYoung, Jisu Kim, and Youngjoo Na. "Correlation between Curriculum and Employing Testing for Secondary School Teachers in Home Economics Subjects." Family and Environment Research 58, no. 2 (May 21, 2020): 187–200. http://dx.doi.org/10.6115/fer.2020.014.
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This study analyzes the teacher certification examination from 2014 to 2019. The research methods are summarized as follows. First, the questionnaire on tests conducted from 2014 to 2019 was divided into ‘Teacher Eligibility Criteria’, ‘Assessment Area’, and ‘Evaluation Content Elements‘ for detailed analysis. Second, the examination for the 2019 school year from the 2014 school year compared the 2009 curriculum with the yearly question items in order to examine the correlation between the secondary school curriculum and test items. Third, this study examined the home economics department reflected in the curriculum of the five national universities. The results of the study are summarized as follows. First, according to the results of the questionnaire survey conducted from 2014 to 2019, the field of Home Economics education showed the highest rate of 25% or more in all years. Second, in order to examine the correlation between secondary school curriculum and Home Economics test items, this study compared the results of the 2014 - 2019 school year examination with the 2009 curriculum. Third, as a result of analyzing the curriculum of the five universities of the National College of Education, the basic courses were properly established at all colleges of education. As a result, the correlation was high overall, even within subcategories, the rate of exams was high only incertain attendants and the frequency of exams was low at some attendants.
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Dongardive, Prakash Bhagwan. "Challenges and Opportunities in Building a Successful Digital Library in Developing Countries." International Journal of ICT Research in Africa and the Middle East 9, no. 1 (January 2020): 24–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijictrame.2020010102.
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The present research work describes the use of the electronic resources by the teaching community at Mekelle University, Ethiopia. The survey was conducted by using questionnaires to collect the data. The questionnaires were administrated to total 1516 on duty teaching faculties of seven colleges. Including the College of Natural and Computational Sciences, the College of Veterinary Medicine, the College of Health Science, the College of Law and Governance, the College of Business and Economics, the College of Language and Social Sciences, College Dry Land Agriculture and Natural Resources as well as nine regular institutes including; the Ethiopian Institute of Technology, the Mekelle Institute of Technology, the Institute of Paleo Environment and Heritage Conservation, the Institute of Pedagogical Sciences, the Institute of Geo-Information and Earth Observation Sciences, the Institute of Environment and Gender Development Studies, the Institute of Population Studies, the Institute for Climate and Society, and the Institute for Water and Environment at Mekelle University. The survey also examines the purpose of use, frequency, difficulties, and availability of electronic information resources subscribed by the Mekelle University Digital Library. Finally, the data was interpreted, concluded, and suggestions have been given for improvement of electronic information resources at library web portal.
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Dongardive, Prakash. "Use of Electronic Information Resources at Mekelle University, Ethiopia." International Journal of Digital Literacy and Digital Competence 10, no. 3 (July 2019): 49–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijdldc.2019070104.
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The present research work describes the use of the electronic resources by the teaching community at Mekelle University, Ethiopia. The survey was conducted by using questionnaires to collect the data. The questionnaires were administered to a total of 1,516 on-duty teaching faculty of seven colleges. This is including the College of Natural and Computational Sciences, the College of Veterinary Medicine, the College of Health Science, the College of Law and Governance, the College of Business and Economics, the College of Language and Social Sciences, the College of Dry Land Agriculture and Natural Resources as well as nine regular institutes including: the Ethiopian Institute of Technology, Mekelle Institute of Technology, the Institute of Paleo Environment and Heritage Conservation, the Institute of Pedagogical Sciences, the Institute of Geo-Information and Earth Observation Sciences, the Institute of Environment and Gender Development Studies, the Institute of Population Studies, the Institute for Climate and Society, and the Institute for Water and Environment at Mekelle University. The survey also examines the purpose of use, frequency, difficulties, and availability of electronic information resources subscribed by Mekelle University Digital Library. Finally, the data has been interpreted, concluded and suggestions have been given for the improvement of electronic information resources at the library web portal.
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Acharya, S. "Contributing factors of utero-vaginal prolapse among women attending in Lumbini Medical College and Teaching Hospital." Journal of Chitwan Medical College 5, no. 3 (February 15, 2017): 32–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/jcmc.v5i3.16523.
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Uterine prolapse- is a major public health problem in Nepal. It is a medical and social problem, deeply rooted with poor health services and socio-cultural beliefs. The objective of this study was to find out the contributing factors of utero -vaginal prolapse among women attending at Lumbini Medical College and Teaching Hospital. Descriptive study design was used. A total of 40 women diagnosed with utero-vaginal prolapse were selected as the cases by using purposive sampling technique. Data were collected from 2071/07/8 to 2071/10/30. Data processing and analysis was done using SPSS version 16.The study reveals that 92% of women were involved in agriculture and 80% of them were illiterate. Ninety five percent of the women got marriage before the age of 20, 92.5% women became pregnant more than 3 times, 70% of babies were born at. Ninety two percent of the women gave birth to first child before the age of 20 and 90% respondents reported that they were involved in heavy work during pregnancy and postnatal period. Contributing factors depicted by our study were heavy work, illiteracy, early marriage/child birth, inadequate food during pregnancy and postpartum period, multi parity, home delivery and less rest period during post partum.
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Velez, Erin, Melissa Cominole, and Alexander Bentz. "Debt burden after college: the effect of student loan debt on graduates’ employment, additional schooling, family formation, and home ownership." Education Economics 27, no. 2 (November 2, 2018): 186–206. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09645292.2018.1541167.
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Elton-Chalcraft, Sally, Ann Kendrick, and Alison Chapman. "Gender, race, faith and economics." Management in Education 32, no. 4 (September 23, 2018): 176–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0892020618788738.
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This article explores factors inhibiting or encouraging women and men from Black and Minority ethnic (BME) and also white backgrounds to pursue leadership positions in English schools. Data are drawn from a commissioned evaluation of three National College of Teaching and Leadership (NCTL)-funded courses which investigated the extent to which the 33 participants felt their course successfully prepared them to take on a leadership role. Findings showed that although primary aspirant head teachers and most women into secondary headship gained confidence and felt more competent as their courses progressed, their desire to become leaders, in some cases, decreased. The opposite was the case for the BME participants, most of whom cited, along with increased confidence and perceived competence, an increased desire to become middle leaders, despite some accounts of prejudicial treatment. Factors cited by participants as impacting negatively on their desire to become leaders included work–life balance, accountability, faith, economic factors (size of school, travel costs) and issues concerning gender, particularly for women participants, who saw themselves as leaders both at work and in the home. Findings provide an insight into the continuing structural inequalities experienced by a small sample of aspirant school leaders which have implications for future leadership preparation provision.
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Tao, Zhang. "The efficiency assessment of food safety in China’s agriculture: a case study of the rice sector." Agricultural Economics (Zemědělská ekonomika) 54, No. 11 (December 2, 2008): 521–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.17221/265-agricecon.
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Rice is the main food in China’s home consumption and plays an important role in its food security. But, how is the status of food safety and environmental efficiency in China’s agriculture? Obviously, an incorrect manner of pesticide application will hold negative effects on human health and environment. In this article, we develop an analytical framework based on the Luenberger DEA method to calculate the output technical efficiency and input environmental efficiency simultaneously. In the second-stage analysis, the stochastic frontier model is used to estimate the impact of explanatory variables and managerial efficiency on efficiency. We apply the methodology in the empirical case study of China’s rice production for measuring the food safety performance of China’s rice sector.
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M., Venkateswarlu. "A study on open air defecation practices among the population above 6 years in rural field practice area of Santhiram Medical College, Nandyal, Kurnool dist, Andhra Pradesh." International Journal Of Community Medicine And Public Health 6, no. 5 (April 27, 2019): 1901. http://dx.doi.org/10.18203/2394-6040.ijcmph20191468.
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Background: Open air defecation can be defined as the excretion of human excreta in open places such as park, roadside, vegetable patch, agricultural fields and railway track other than toilets. Open air defecation may leads to various health problems such as soil pollution, water pollution, contamination of foods and propagation of flies. Nearly 74% of India’s population live in rural areas and the majority of them “go to the fields” for defecation and thereby pollute the environment with human excreta. The aims and objectives of the study were to find the association between defecation practices and socio-demographic variables; to assess the prevalence of hook-worm infestation and anemia among them.Methods: A cross sectional study was conducted. Sample size was 550 and simple random sampling. Chi-square test was applied.Results: The prevalence of open air defecation was 441 (80.2%). 270 (61.2%), 171 (38.8%) were males and females; 23.3% were habit of hand washing with soap after toilet. 87 (19.7%), 63 (14.3%), 43 (9.7%) were found to be having hook worm, round worm, and pin worm infestation in the stool examination. 32 (35.5%), 21 (23.3%), 37 (41.1%) were having severe anemia, moderate anemia, and mild anemia.Conclusions: 335 (60.9%), 106 (19.3%) people were going for open air defecation and inspite of having toilet at home. 226 (51.2%) belong to lower socio economic class. The association between socio demographic profile and open air defecation was significant (χ2=0.02, p<0.05).
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Guryan, Jonathan, Erik Hurst, and Melissa Kearney. "Parental Education and Parental Time with Children." Journal of Economic Perspectives 22, no. 3 (July 1, 2008): 23–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1257/jep.22.3.23.
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This paper examines parental time allocated to the care of one's children. Using data from the recent American Time Use Surveys, we highlight some interesting cross-sectional patterns in time spent by American parents as they care for their children: we find that higher-educated parents spend more time with their children; for example, mothers with a college education or greater spend roughly 4.5 hours more per week in child care than mothers with a high school degree or less. This relationship is striking, given that higher-educated parents also spend more time working outside the home. This robust relationship holds across all subgroups examined, including both nonworking and working mothers and working fathers. It also holds across all four subcategories of child care: basic, educational, recreational, and travel related to child care. From an economic perspective, this positive education gradient in child care (and a similar positive gradient found for income) can be viewed as surprising, given that the opportunity cost of time is higher for higher-educated, high-wage adults. In sharp contrast, the amount of time allocated to home production and to leisure falls sharply as education and income rise. We conclude that child care is best modeled as being distinct from typical home production or leisure activities, and thinking about it differently suggests important questions for economists to explore. Finally, using data from a sample of 14 countries, we explore whether the same patterns holds across countries and within other countries.
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Yumurtaci, Aynur, and Bilal Bagis. "University Students’ Preferences about Savings and Investments at Individual and National level in the 21st Century: The Case of Turkey." Review of Economic Perspectives 20, no. 4 (December 1, 2020): 485–502. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/revecp-2020-0024.
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AbstractThis paper aims to capture the favored both national and individual saving and investment perceptions of the Turkish youth. Also, the research contributes to the understanding of the common preferences of the youth and focuses on perceptions over their home country’s saving-investment decisions. We reason, it is important to evaluate views of the youth on national savings and investments as they will be both the decision-makers determining the economic and social policies of the near future and the ones that are directly impacted by these policies implemented today. For this purpose, a questionnaire is applied to randomly selected 550 university students in Turkey and the results are analyzed by the chi-square test. Accordingly, students have mostly preferred that investments should be primarily made to the education sector at national level while investment made for the social security system is placed on the last rank. In addition, education is the most important individual investment choice of participants. On the other hand, information technologies, energy, and agriculture are identified as the most significant investment areas, which could be potentially increased the global competitiveness of their home country. Another important outcome of this research is that students prefer to invest their individual savings in gold and real estate investments, respectively.
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Simundza, Daniel. "Cream Puffs." Journal of Sports Economics 18, no. 8 (November 5, 2015): 787–802. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1527002515609664.
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This article provides a novel answer to the question of why elite college football programs schedule so-called “cream puff” games against vastly inferior out-of-conference opponents. Using data on college football games from 2002 to 2010, I find that a team’s chances of winning are 5.3–15.6% greater in the game following their victory over a cream puff. In my preferred estimation, this “cream puff effect” is roughly half as large as the estimated home field advantage. I also show that the U.S. Today/Sagarin rating system, which I use to control for team abilities, penalizes teams for playing vastly inferior opponents. I devise two empirical strategies that deal with this potential problem and show that the cream puff effect is not simply an artifact of the rating system. These results contribute to the literature on dynamic contests by showing that not only does the timing of one’s efforts within a contest matter but so does the schedule of one’s opponents.
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Lee, Soo-Jeong. "Analysis of Curriculum for Home Economics Education in the Secondary College of Education: Focused on Subject Matter Education and Subject Contents." Journal of Korean Practical Arts Education 18, no. 2 (May 2012): 51–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.17055/jpaer.2012.18.2.51.
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Ouma, Christine. "Online learning perception among college students during COVID-19 pandemic around the world: Review." African Educational Research Journal 9, no. 3 (September 13, 2021): 790–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.30918/aerj.93.21.120.
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The author conducted a systematic review of the perception of online learning among college students during the COVID-19 pandemic. The review included 21 studies from institutions in Asia (Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Indonesia, and The Philippines), Europe (Romania and Poland), Africa (Ghana and Algeria), and South America (Chile). The results indicated that students from Asia and Africa overwhelmingly had an unfavorable view of online learning during the pandemic. More than 75% of students in Nepal, India, Indonesia, Pakistan, Algeria, and Ghana used mobile phones to access course material which brought challenges, such as the high cost of data bundles, unreliable network, and lack of adequate cellphone space to download the materials needed for class. Other than Poland, Romania, and United Arab Emirates, students from the rest of the countries reported unreliable internet access. Additional challenges reported include lack of prior experience with online learning, technical difficulties accessing materials online, high volume of assignments, poor communication between learners and educators, distractions from home environment, and lack of practical and clinical experience for students in medical schools. The findings from this systematic review could help administrators of higher education institutions acknowledge the online learning difficulties experienced by college students and prepare for future disruptions.
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Storey, J. Benton. "The Use of Interactive Television in Expanding the Teaching Mission of the Land-grant University." HortScience 32, no. 3 (June 1997): 527D—527. http://dx.doi.org/10.21273/hortsci.32.3.527d.
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The Trans Texas Video Conference Network (TTVN) has been linked to all Texas A&M Univ. campuses and most of the Regional Research and Extension Centers. The College of Agriculture and Life Sciences has funded an aggressive project of establishing TTVN class rooms in many departments across the College Station campus, including The Horticultural Science Dept. in 1997. The first two Hort courses taught were HORT 422 Citrus and Subtropical Fruits in Fall 1996 and HORT 418 Nut Culture in Spring 1997. This extended the class room 400 miles south to Weslaco, 300 miles north to Texarkana and Dallas, and 700 miles west to El Paso. Students at each site had video and audio interaction with the professor and with each other. Advantages included the availability of college credit courses to areas where this subject matter did not previously exist, which helps fulfill the Land-grant University Mission. Quality was maintained through lecture and lab outlines on Aggie Horticulture, the department's Web home page, term papers written to ASHS serial publicationspecifications, and rigorous examinations monitored by site facilitators. Lecture presentations were presented via Power Point, which took about twice as long to prepare than traditional overhead transparencies. Administrative problems remain, but will be solved when the requested Distance Education Registration Category is initiated so that subvention credit can be shared. The lecture portion of the graduate course, HORT 601 Nutrition of Horticultural Plants, will be taught in the fall semester 1997 at eight sites throughout the state.
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Wafa, Abdul Sami. "Assessment of Badakhshan climatic condition for production and marketing of saffron." International Journal of Innovative Research and Scientific Studies 4, no. 1 (March 3, 2021): 33–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.53894/ijirss.v4i1.53.
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A research was conducted in 2019 to assess the favorability of Badakhshan climatic condition for production and marketing of saffron. The data was collected through questionnaires from 30 participants of Badakhshan saffron farmers, specialists, professors, school of economics and agriculture departments. According to the average results of the total respondents it is said that climatic condition of Badakhshan is 76.2% favorable for saffron cultivation. The marketing evaluation is said that 23% of Badakhshan saffron is consumed at home, 40% is sold in local market, 20% percent is sold in national market and 17% is sold in international markets. 36% respondents believe that saffron has very little effect, and 57% said that it has little impact and 7% of the respondent answered that saffron has great effects on the farmers’ income in Badakhshan. Therefore, it is concluded that the Badakhshan climatic condition is favorable for production and marketing of saffron but it requires government and relevant agriculture departments and NGO’s to supply saffron roots, focus on farmers training and marketing of saffron to raise its quality level and increase the farmer’s income in Badakhshan.
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Limon, Mark Raguindin, and John Paul Castillo Vallente. "Module Development in Home and Family Living for College Students of a State University in the Philippines." Global Journal of Educational Studies 2, no. 1 (May 31, 2016): 39. http://dx.doi.org/10.5296/gjes.v2i1.9539.
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<p>This paper generated a module in Home and Family Living along the six units in Technology and Livelihood Education (TLE): The Filipino Family; The Teenager; Making and Keeping Friends; Looking towards Marriage; Towards Responsible Parenthood; and Home Care Nursing. This instructional material was prepared on the assumption that given adequate and meaningful instruction in the different units, the module can enhance the teaching-learning process, and help students master the content and skills required of a TLE teacher. In the development of the module in HFL, the researchers followed the research and development cycle called research-based development technology, using the ADDIE Model’s stages. The major steps in developing the module included analysis, design, development, implementation, and evaluation; each stage is composed of different phases. After the construction of the module, it was examined and content-validated with regard to objectives, content, instructional characteristics, and practice test items, using a rating scale by seven experts from the different fields in Home Economics. The module was found highly valid in all its aspects, and revisions were made based on the suggestions given. Subsequently, 25 TLE students and seven teachers assessed the usefulness of the module. The evaluators adjudged the material useful as revealed by their testimonials; therefore, it was concluded that the material was more effective than traditional, lecture-based classroom teaching strategy. It was recommended that this validated module be published, reproduced, and utilized to supplement the existing materials employed by the students and the teachers to help them develop the required competencies, and further master the content and skills required of a TLE teacher.</p>
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Campbell, Jeffrey R., and Zvi Hercowitz. "Liquidity Constraints of the Middle Class." American Economic Journal: Economic Policy 11, no. 3 (August 1, 2019): 130–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1257/pol.20180070.
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Existing evidence from US middle class households shows that their MPCs out of tax rebates greatly exceed the PIH’s prediction and are weakly related to their liquid assets. The standard precautionary-saving model predicts the first fact but counterfactu-ally requires MPCs to decrease with liquid wealth. Evidence from the Survey of Consumer Finances indicates widespread saving in anticipation of major expenditures like home purchases and college education. Adding such savings to the standard precautionary-saving model allows it to generate realistic MPCs for households with liquid wealth: the approaching expenditure simultaneously motivates asset accumulation and raises MPCs by shortening the effective planning horizon. (JEL D14, D15, D31, E21, H24, H31)
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PANDEY, ANJIR. "Effect of moisture conservation practices on growth and yield of Indian mustard and chickpea intercropping system under rainfed conditions." Annals of Plant and Soil Research 23, no. 2 (April 30, 2021): 192–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.47815/apsr.2021.10055.
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A field experiment was conducted during winter season of 2018-19 and 2019-20 at the Research Farm, College of Agriculture, Gwalior (M.P.) to study the effect of moisture conservation practices on Indian mustard-chickpea intercropping under rainfed conditions. The treatments comprised of four intercropping systems and four moisture conservation practices were evaluated in split plot design with three replications. The results revealed that intercropping of mustard + chickpea at1:4 and 2:4 row ratios registered maximum growth parameters, yield and yield-attributes and economics of both the crops over chickpea or mustard grown alone. LER was 1.43 to 1.44.Mustard equivalent yield was 23.05 to 24.21 q/ha over sole chickpea (21.95 q ha-1) and sole mustard (13.54 q ha-1). Weed mulching @ 5 t ha-1 resulted in higher growth, yield and yield-attributes and economics as compared to soil or paddy straw mulching.
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Gallaher, Art. "The Cooperative Extension Model." Practicing Anthropology 12, no. 4 (September 1, 1990): 18–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.17730/praa.12.4.l74734176388n6x5.
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Since the Sea Grant Marine Advisory Service (MAS) has Taken the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Cooperative. Extension Service (CES) as the model on which to, chart its future, I have been asked to comment on the latter and to generalize its implications for the former. In fairness to you who read this, I should introduce an up-front caveat: whereas I have not had; personal experience with Marine extension, my research in culture change, in this country and Ireland, has brought me into close contact with agriculture and home economics extension activity, and my tenure in university-administration, and work with the Peace Corps in its early days, further heightened my interest in CES, both as a training model and as a delivery system.
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Brown, Trent. "Pathways to Agricultural Skill Development in the Indian Himalayas." Journal of South Asian Development 15, no. 2 (August 2020): 270–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0973174120943081.
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Policymakers and practitioners in the field of skill development often carry individualist and narrowly instrumental understandings of the reasons people enrol in their programmes. This article argues that people in the Global South seek to develop skills for a range of reasons, many of which are strongly influenced by their social environment and factors outside of their control. It presents the findings of a study involving surveys and semi-structured interviews with 53 trainees enrolled in agricultural skill development programmes in the state of Himachal Pradesh in the Indian Himalayas. Trainees’ responses were analysed to determine common ‘pathways’ to agricultural skill development programmes. Seven major pathways were identified: supporting one’s family; adopting commercial approaches to agriculture; managing a transition to agriculture after working in other sectors; gaining new knowledge; contributing to society; working from home; and developing a fallback option while seeking other work. These pathways were highly inflected by gender, age and caste. It is suggested that agricultural skill development practitioners will benefit from working with these pathways rather than assuming trainees carry more economistic motivations, but also from being critically aware of how the social factors that impinge on trainees’ pathways are influenced by local power structures.
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Tilekar, R. N., V. G. Chavan, B. L. Kumhar, G. K. Bahure, V. N. Game, and H. M. Patil. "Effect of sowing dates and establishment methods on quality parameter, uptake of NPK and economics of groundnut (Arachis hypogaea L.) under Konkan region of Maharashtra." International Journal of Agricultural Invention 4, no. 01 (April 7, 2019): 22–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.46492/ijai/2019.4.1.4.
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The present investigation entitled “Effect of sowing dates and establishment methods on quality parameter, uptake of NPK and economics of groundnut (Arachis hypogaea L.) under Konkan region of Maharashtra” was conducted at Agronomy Farm, Department of Agronomy, College of Agriculture, Dapoli, Dist. Ratnagiri, Maharashtra during kharif season of 2015. The results revealed that, the gross return (Rs. 209162 ha-1), net return (Rs. 69446 ha-1) and B: C ratio (1.50) was appreciably higher in 23rd MW as compared to the other sowing dates. However, broad bed furrow method of sowing obtained highest gross returns (Rs. 206615 ha-1), net profit (Rs. 68790 ha-1), and B: C ratio (1.50) as compared to flat bed method of sowing. The highest total nitrogen uptake (142.67 kg ha-1, total phosphorus uptake (11.45 kg ha-1) and total potassium uptake (67.82 kg ha-1) recorded under 23rd MW. Total nitrogen, total phosphorus and total potassium uptake was significantly higher in crop sown by broad bed furrow than flat bed.
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Sterner, Thomas, Yonas Alem, Francisco Alpízar, Cyndi Spindell Berck, Carlos Alberto Chavez Rebolledo, Johane Dikgang, Stephen Kirama, et al. "The Environment for Development Initiative: lessons learned in research, academic capacity building and policy intervention to manage resources for sustainable growth." Environment and Development Economics 19, no. 3 (June 2014): 367–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1355770x1400014x.
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AbstractThis article reviews the history of the Environment for Development (EfD) initiative, its activities in capacity building and policy-oriented research, and case studies at its centres in Chile, China, Costa Rica, Ethiopia, Kenya, South Africa and Tanzania. EfD promotes research-based policies to manage natural resources as engines of development. Since 1991, the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) has provided funding for students from developing countries to earn a PhD at the Environmental Economics Unit (EEU) of the University of Gothenburg. Returning home, these economists face institutional and academic gaps that limit the adoption of research-based policies. In response, the first EfD centre was founded in 2004, and six more followed. Research focuses on agriculture, climate, fisheries, parks, wildlife, forestry, energy and policy design. This has yielded 200 peer-reviewed articles. Successful policy outcomes depend on relationships with policy makers, community involvement in livelihood strategies, strengthened institutional support, interdisciplinary approaches, and dissemination of research results.
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Chaudhari, Mohini, Chaitali Das, Manisha Awari, Pallavi Bhoye, and Prof Satish Shrivastava. "Embedded Based Drip Irrigation System using WSN and GSM Module." International Journal on Recent and Innovation Trends in Computing and Communication 7, no. 10 (October 31, 2019): 05–07. http://dx.doi.org/10.17762/ijritcc.v7i10.5360.
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Agriculture plays the vital role in economics and survival of people in India. Nowadays Indian agriculture faces a two major problem. We know the government has promoted a free supply of electricity to farmers for irrigation purpose to run their motors and pumps. But it is found that the farmers misusing the electricity to run their home appliances such as radio, TV, fans, and etc. This misuse of electricity has brought a considerable problem for government to supply free electricity. The main objective of this project is to design low cost Automated Irrigation System using a Wireless Sensor Network and GPRS Module. The main aim of this project is to provide embedded based system for irrigation to reduce the manual monitoring of the field and GPRS gives their information. This proposed system recognizes whether the free electricity has been used excluding electric motors for pumping water and if so electricity is being misused, it shuts the total stockpile for the farmers through a tripping circuit. By using wireless networks we can intimate the electricity board about this mal convention. The development of this project at experimental level within rural areas is presented and the implementation has to exhibit that the automatic irrigation can be used.
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Thapa, B., G. Rana, and S. Gurung. "Contributing factors of utero-vaginal prolapse among women attending in Bharatpur Hospital." Journal of Chitwan Medical College 4, no. 3 (January 20, 2015): 38–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/jcmc.v4i3.11939.
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Uterine prolapse is a major public health problem in rural Nepal. It is a medical and social problem, deeply rooted with poor health services and socio-cultural beliefs. The objective of this study was to find out the contributing factors of utero-vaginal prolapse among women attending in Bharatpur hospital. Descriptive study design was used. A total of 100 women diagnosed with utero-vaginal prolapse were selected by using purposive sampling technique. Data processing and analysis was done using SPSS. The study reveals that 88% of women were involved in agriculture and 82% of them were illiterate. Ninety two percent of the women got marriage before the age of 20, 42% women became pregnant 3-5 times, 96.33% of babies were born at home and 100% of them were born vaginally. Sixty six percent of the women gave birth to first child between the ages of 16-20, 92% had done heavy work during pregnancy and postnatal period and none of the women did kegal exercise. Based on the findings of the study it is concluded that the most important contributing factors found by our study were heavy work, illiteracy, early marriage and child birth, inadequate food during pregnancy and postpartum period, multi parity, home delivery, vaginal delivery, less rest period in post partum, no kegal exercise. The relationship between age of uterine prolapse and age of first child birth was 0.306 which was positive relationship between them. Which shows that there was statistically significant (P- value=0.002). DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/jcmc.v4i3.11939Journal of Chitwan Medical College 2014; 4(3):38-42
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Silva, Erin, and Connie Falk. "OASIS: An Experiential Learning Class in Organic Production." HortScience 41, no. 4 (July 2006): 974E—975. http://dx.doi.org/10.21273/hortsci.41.4.974e.
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New Mexico State University has designed a course in Organic Vegetable Production centered on a working CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) Farm. This project, named “OASIS” (Organic Agriculture Students Inspiring Sustainability), was funded by a 3-year USDA Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSI) grant from 2002–05. The project has multiple objectives, including: to provide students with a multi-disciplinary experiential educational opportunity; to investigate the feasibility of small-scale organic drip-irrigated farming in the Chihuahuan desert; to demonstrate the CSA model to the local community; and to trial vegetable varieties. The class is co-listed in the Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences and the Department of Agricultural Economics and Agricultural Business. Recently, the class was adopted in the Honors College and also became part of the General Education (G) program at NMSU. The course meets twice a week during two 2-h class periods. In-class time is divided between lectures, active learning projects, and work at the 0.26-ha field plot. The class content covered by the instructors includes organic regulations, history of CSAs and organic agriculture, evaluating the profitability of CSAs, the production of specific vegetable crops, planting and harvesting procedures, and postharvest requirements. Guest speakers are also part of the regular class structure and have discussed various topics such as beneficial insects, tillage, cover cropping, and weed management. The “living classroom” allows for these lectures to draw upon the experiences of students working on the farm. Although the course presents several challenges, the hands-on experience gained by the students is considered to be invaluable.
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Lee, Ji-Yeon, and Sang-Sook Jeon. "Korean Women’s Higher Education and Home Economics during the Colonial Period －Missionary Networks and the Academic Experience of Female Students at Ewha Woman’s College." CHIYEOK KWA YEOKSA The Journal of Korean History 36 (April 30, 2015): 247. http://dx.doi.org/10.19120/cy.2015.04.36.247.
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Kasemsuwan, T., T. Bailey, and J. Jane. "Preparation of clear noodles with mixtures of tapioca and high-amylose starches1Journal Paper J-16546 of the Iowa Agriculture and Home Economics Experiment Station, Ames. Project 3258.1." Carbohydrate Polymers 36, no. 4 (August 1998): 301–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0144-8617(97)00256-7.
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Von Isenburg, Megan. "Undergraduate Student Use of the Physical and Virtual Library Varies according to Academic Discipline." Evidence Based Library and Information Practice 5, no. 1 (March 17, 2010): 129. http://dx.doi.org/10.18438/b83046.
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Bridges, L.M. (2008). Who is not using the library? A comparison of undergraduate academic disciplines and library use. portal: Libraries and the Academy, 8(2), 187-196.
Objective – To determine differences in undergraduate students' use of the physical library and virtual library by academic disciplines.
Design – Online multiple-choice survey followed by focus groups and secondary online survey with open-ended questions.
Setting – Oregon State University (OSU), a land-grant university with over 19,000 students located in Corvallis, Oregon, United States.
Subjects – A random sample of 22% (n = 3,227) of the undergraduate population (n = 14,443), drawn by the registrar's office. Distance education and students at branch campuses were not included. From this pool, 949 usable survey responses (29% of the sample) were collected. The respondent demographics proved to be reasonably equivalent to those of the total undergraduate population in terms of class standing (freshman, sophomore, junior, or senior) and academic discipline.
Methods – The study consisted of three phases. In phase one, an email invitation with a link to the four-item multiple choice online survey was sent to students in the sample population. Results were analyzed using Pearson chi-square tests to determine goodness of fit between the following variables: class standing and library visits, class standing and virtual library use, academic college and library visits, and academic college and virtual library use. When significant dependence was detected, researchers examined relationships between the specific groups (e.g., freshman and sophomore) and library use, and also compared each group to one another using odds ratios and by constructing 95% confidence intervals.
Phase two was intended to gather qualitative information from the 275 infrequent or non-users of the library in focus groups. However, researchers invited the 95 students in this group who had indicated a willingness to be contacted for further study, and only five students participated. The author therefore does not report on this limited data.
In phase three, researchers invited the 95 students who had self-reported as infrequent or non-users of the library and who had indicated a willingness to be contacted for further study to complete an online survey consisting of 36 open-ended questions. 38 students responded. Much of the data for phase three is reported on in a separate research article (Vondracek, 2007).
Main Results – Results from phase one are reported in detail: in response to the question of how often undergraduates visit the physical library, 24.6% visited several times a year, 29.6% visited several times a month, 34% visited several times a week, 7.7% visited once or more per day, and 4% reported that they did not visit at all. Response to how often undergraduate students use the online library resources or website from outside the library were: 37.7% use them several times a year, 32.8% use them several times a month, 12% used them several times a week, 1.3% used them once or more per day, and 16.2% reported that they did not use them at all.
No significant relationships were found between class standing and visits to the physical library or class standing and virtual library use.
Researchers determined a significant relationship between academic college and visits to the physical library (p=0.003): College of Agriculture students were significantly less likely to visit the library than students from the Colleges of Health and Human Sciences, Liberal Arts, and Sciences.
Researchers also determined a significant relationship between academic college and virtual library use (p=0.008): students in the College of Engineering were significantly less likely to use the virtual library resources than students in the College of Liberal Arts.
The survey from phase three of this study asked students further questions about their library use and relevant results are discussed in this article. Five students from the College of Agriculture responded to the survey and all five students noted that they study at home. When asked about where they go for help with research, three reported that they ask a friend or peer, one noted a professor and the fifth did not respond to the question. Four engineering students responded to this survey; when asked about where they carry out online research, two responded that they use Google, one responded that he/she uses the library, and the fourth noted that he/she uses a building on campus.
Conclusion – This study determined that College of Agriculture students were less likely to use the physical library than their counterparts in the Colleges of Health and Human Sciences, Liberal Arts, and Sciences, and that College of Engineering students were less likely to use the virtual library resources than students in the College of Liberal Arts.