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» Abstract Massive open online courses (MOOCs), contribute significantly to individual empowerment because they can help people learn about a wide range of topics. To realize the full potential of MOOCs, we need to understand their factors of success, here defined as the use, user satisfaction, along the individual and organizational performance resulting from the user involvement. We propose a theo...Continue Reading »
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» Introduction Scenarios of land use and land cover play an important role in exploring future developments and policy options for climate change, biodiversity, food security, ecosystem services, and sustainable development. The exploration of future global land use in international assessments started in the 1990s (SRES)1 and gained increasing importance in environmental outlooks and assessments2,3...Continue Reading »
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» ABSTRACT Sheep marketing is playing a great role in improving the livelihoods of smallholder farmers in Ethiopia. Although it plays a great role, the smallholder farmers are not sufficiently participating in the sheep market so they are poor. Therefore, this study was designed to analyze the factors affecting the intensity of sheep market participation in Northern Ethiopia. The data were collected...Continue Reading »
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» Abstract This paper examines the impacts of access to extension services and cooperative membership on technology adoption, asset ownership and poverty using household level data from rural Nigeria. Using different matching techniques and endogenous switching regression approach, we find that both extension access and cooperative membership have a positive and statistically significant effect on t...Continue Reading »
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» Abstract The study investigates how customer perceptions of parent brands influence the perceived value of brand extensions in the hotel industry and how these relationships are moderated by the nature of the brand extension in question. Drawing on brand equity logic, the study proposes that perceived positive brand attributes, awareness, attitudes, and loyalty toward the parent brand positively r...Continue Reading »
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» The source of what the philosopher Immanuel Kant called “the moral law within” may be mysterious, but its role in the social order is not. In any nation short of dictatorship some form of moral compact, implicit or explicit, should be the basis of a just society. Without a common sense of what is “right,” groups fracture and the fragments wander. Science and knowledge can g...Continue Reading »
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» Abstract The Role of progressive farmers for Farmer Empowerment in West Java. Farmer empowerment is increasingly marginalized by the reduced number of government extension workers in the village. It requires an alternative problem solving to narrow the poverty gap between cities and villages. Extension services providedly of progressive farmer are needed to help farmers. To find study analyze the ...Continue Reading »
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» Abstract When managing a global supply chain, one critical challenge encountered by multinational enterprises (MNEs) is the extension of corporate social responsibility (CSR) practices to suppliers in emerging countries. In this study, we use a multi method approach to explore 1) the nature of suppliers’ CSR heterogeneity based on the various components of CSR in emerging countries, and 2) t...Continue Reading »
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» ABSTRACT Although the New York/New Jersey (NY/NJ) area is an epicenter for carbapenem resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE), there are few multicenter studies of CRE from this region. We characterized patients with CRE bacteremia in 2013 at eight NY/NJ medical centers and determined the prevalence of carbapenem resistance among Enterobacteriaceae bloodstream isolates and CRE resistance mechanisms, ge...Continue Reading »
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» Abstract In order to tackle the increasing problem of malnutrition (i.e. protein‐energy malnutrition) in the older population, the Joint Action Malnutrition in the Elderly (MaNuEL) Knowledge Hub has been recently launched as part of the Strategic Research Agenda of the Joint Programming Initiative (JPI) A Healthy Diet for a Healthy Life (HDHL). This paper introduces this new European initiative ...Continue Reading »
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» Abstract This article presents a structural modeling analysis of the performance determinants of urban attractiveness, in terms of resident population and international tourism demand, in 40 global cities. The analysis focuses on the impacts of a diverse set of innovative drivers of urban value creation and sustainable solutions for city development (urban functions), which are collectively subsum...Continue Reading »
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» ABSTRACT Background: Functional status declines with aging, thus impeding autonomy. Recently, a more even mealtime distribution of dietary protein was positively associated with muscle mass, but the relation of this distribution to physical performance remains unknown....Continue Reading »
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» Abstract The use of lizards as model organisms in ecological studies is based on their success in occupying a great diversity of habitats, and some species are closely tied to the environment, which is disadvantaged by the legislation of several countries concerning land use. Our aim was to relate lizard species distribution patterns in rainforest environments to variation in environmental gradien...Continue Reading »
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» Abstract Loss of function variants in PCSK9 (proprotein convertase subtilisin kexin type 9) are associated with lower lifetime risk of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease) events. Confirmation of these genetic observations in large, prospective clinical trials in participants with atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease has provided guidance on risk stratification and enhanced our knowledge on h...Continue Reading »
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» Abstract Numerous studies have been carried out on pesticide handling practices in agriculture, but drivers of farmers’ intentions to use pesticides are not well documented....Continue Reading »
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» Abstract Following a variety of incidents in China relating to food poisoning due to the presence of pesticide residues, it is crucial to correct for farmers’ unsafe and improper practices towards pesticide use. overnment regulation....Continue Reading »
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» CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND OF STUDY Tropical tree fruits are important in the supplementation and improvement of diets [Gunasena HPM and A Hughes 2000]. The tropical forest and its adjoining savannah zone are rich in wild tree fruits, many of which are neither cultivated nor eaten in the zone [Egunjobi JK and KM Rawal 1978]. These lesser known food plants are extremely rich in food va...Continue Reading »
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» Background The effectiveness of complex interventions, as well as their success in reaching relevant populations, is critically influenced by their implementation in a given context. Current conceptual frameworks often fail to address context and implementation in an integrated way and, where addressed, they tend to focus on organisational context and are mostly concerned with specific health fiel...Continue Reading »
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» Abstract The purpose of this paper is to reveal the spread rules of the three pneumonia: COVID 19, SARS and MERS. We compare the new spread characteristics of COVID 19 with those of SARS and MERS. By considering the growth rate and inhibition constant of infectious diseases, their propagation growth model is established. The parameters of the three coronavirus transmission growth models are obtain...Continue Reading »
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» ABSTRACT The nutritional proximate composition; elemental minerals, and phytochemical contents of wild (cyperus rotundus) and cultivated (cyperus esculentus) species of Tigernuts, was investigated in Calabar in 2018. The iwld and cultivated species of Tigernuts were sourced from the Botanical garden in the University of Calabar. Elemental minerals, nutrient proximate compositions and phytochemical...Continue Reading »
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