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Measuring Team Meeting Success: Does Everyone Really Need to Participate?

Longo, Jodi Olaine - 2005

Facilitators are encouraged to get all meeting attendees to participate in the meeting. There is the assumption made that, if they do participate, then this participation will increase the group's general satisfaction of the meeting. Also, knowing the factors that can increase the probability of...

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Promoting Action on Research Implementation in Health Services (PARiHS) Framework: Application to the Fracture Fighters Program

Bansod, Vinita A. - 2009

elements of evidence, context and facilitation. A cross-sectional survey was completed with clinicians responsible for …

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Characteristics of Effective Mentoring in a Formal Mentoring Setting

Rosser, Manda H. (contributor) - 2009

within Texas AgriLife Extension's Mentoring Program. Research wasconducted on mentoring relationships from mentor and mentee …

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A Qualitative Examination of the History of E-Extension (eXtension), Implementation of Moodle (A Course Management System) and Associated Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and T...

Hightower, Tayla Elise - 2010

According to research by Tennessen, PonTell, Romine and Motheral (1997), the Extension System has been educating the … nation for over 96 years, and the idea of using technology as a medium for education has been in the minds of Extension … educators for over 40 years. The National E-Extension (eXtension) Initiative is being adopted at a rapid pace, and the history …

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Frictionless Commerce? A Comparison of Internet and Conventional Retailers

Brynjolfsson, Erik; Smith, Michael D. - 2000

There have been many claims that the Internet represents a new nearly "frictionless market." Our research empirically analyzes the characteristics of the Internet as a channel for two categories of homogeneous products-books and CDs. Using a data set of over 8,500 price observations collected...

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Connecting the Mediterranean System of Innovation: A functional perspective

López-Vega, Henry; Ramis Pujol, Juan - 2009

Purpose - This paper provides the first qualitative exploratory overview of the Mediterranean System of Innovation (MSI) and presents the results of an interactive work with 25 different innovation delegates from northern and southern Mediterranean countries. The study comes at the turning point...

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Strengthening agricultural innovation capacity: are innovation brokers the answer?

Klerkx, Laurens; Hall, Andy; Leeuwis, Cees - 2009

Taking the case of Dutch agriculture as an example, this paper examines the role of innovation brokers in stimulating innovation system interaction and innovation capacity building, and reflects upon their potential role in developing countries’ agriculture. It concludes that innovation...

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Methodological frameworks for research and development on improving linkages and the competitiveness of supply chains

Murray-Prior, Roy - 2007

This paper outlines methodological frameworks for conducting research and development with agribusiness supply chains in transitional economies where the objective is to improve the competitiveness of the supply chains in a global environment. The key difficulty when operating with supply chains...

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SOCIO-ECONOMIC IMPACT OF BIOTECHNOLOGY APPLICATIONS: SOME LESSONS FROM THE PILOT TISSUE-CULTURE (TC) BANANA PRODUCTION PROMOTION PROJECT IN KENYA, 1997-2002

Mbogoh, Stephen G.; Wambugu, Florence M.; Wakhusama, Sam - 2003

This article is based on a socio-economic impact study of the introduction and adoption of tissue-culture (tc) technology in banana production in Kenya. It attempts to demonstrate that a prudent introduction and promotion of a new biotechnological innovation in farming can make a positive...

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Diversification as a Survival Strategy for Marginal Farms an Exploratory Research

Vernimmen, Tom; Bourgeois, Marie; Van Huylenbroeck, Guido; … - 2002

One of the common strategies in rural development programmes is to support the adoption of new on-farm activities. The rationale behind this is that farm diversification is a way to assure an appropriate level of income for the farmers. Through interviews with 49 relatively small farmers, the...

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