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Agricultural extension services and gender equality: An institutional analysis of four districts in Ethiopia [PDF]

Decentralized delivery of public services has been promoted as a means to enhance citizen voice and make service provision more responsive to users. Ethiopia has undertaken two rounds of decentralization, making first the regional states and then the ...
Lemma, Mamusha, Cohen, Marc J.
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Evaluation of Dried Plasma Spot‐Based Quantification of Glial Fibrillary Acidic Protein as a Disease‐Associated Biomarker in Neuromyelitis Optica Spectrum Disorder

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective To evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) measured in dried plasma spots versus conventional plasma‐ and serum‐GFAP testing for assessment of disease severity in aquaporin‐4 immunoglobulin G–positive neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder (AQP4‐IgG+ NMOSD).
Felix Wohlrab, Evelyn Alvarez, Roua Hamdi, Bingqing Zhang, Hayeun Ji, Niyati Jhaveri, Patrick Schindler, Pedro Sanchez, Pia S. Sperber, Tanja Schmitz‐Hübsch, Frederike C. Oertel, Nisa Vorasoot, Najib Kissani, Falko Böhringer, Jens Kuhle, Anne‐Katrin Pröbstel, Xiao‐Jun Ma, Péter Körtvelyessy, Patrick Waters, Friedemann Paul   +19 more
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Cocoa farmers' perspective on the quality of public and private agricultural extension delivery in Southern Ghana

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While the theme of extension service quality has been extensively explored, we set out distinctly to compare farmers' perceptions of quality of public and private extension services. We adopted a survey method and collected data from 385 farmers.
Enoch Kwame Tham-Agyekum, Goddea Asiedu Abourden, John-Eudes Andivi Bakang, Bright Juantoa   +3 more
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FACTORS AFFECTING EXTENSION GRADUATES’ WILLINGNESS TO PRACTICE PRIVATE EXTENSION SERVICE DELIVERY

Scientific Papers Series : Management, Economic Engineering in Agriculture and Rural Development, 2019
The paper presents an educational platform and provides a systematic approach to train and support young people to succeed in formulating, starting and running their own agribusinesses. The educational platform uses 3D virtual reality (VR) to teach entrepreneurship focused on the agriculture domain (AGRIENT).
Anifat IBRAHIM, Adedayo AJAYI
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Decentralization and Access to Agricultural Extension Services in Kenya [PDF]

The form and content of decentralization has dominated development discourse and public sector reform agenda in Kenya in the last two decades. The case of agricultural extension service presents decentralization in a difficult context partly due to lack ...
Omiti, John M., Mugunieri, Godiah Lawrence, Nambiro, Elizabeth   +2 more
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Four‐Year Cognitive Outcomes in Multiple Sclerosis: Associations With Lesion Myelin Integrity

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objectives Cognitive impairment is prevalent in patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) but whether lesion myelin integrity influences future cognitive outcomes remains unclear. We investigated the relationship between baseline lesion myelin water fraction (MWF) and cognitive performance 4 years later.
Iliana Pliska‐Bloch, Hannah Schwartz, Kimberly H. Markowitz, Abhishek Jaywant, Christopher D. Hildenbrand, Jai Perumal, Ulrike W. Kaunzner, Thanh D. Nguyen, Sandra Hurtado Rúa, Susan A. Gauthier   +9 more
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How to make agricultural extension demand-driven?: The case of India's agricultural extension policy [PDF]

"Many countries have recognized the need to revive agricultural advisory or extension services (the terms are used interchangeably here) as a means of using agriculture as an engine of pro-poor growth; reaching marginalized, poor, and female farmers; and
Anderson, Jock R., Birner, Regina
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Artificial Intelligence–Based Online Symptom Assessment Tools for Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Diagnosis: Patient Perspectives

Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
Objective The objective of this article is to identify perceptions of patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) regarding artificial intelligence (AI)–based online symptom assessment tools, and the potential of these tools to address diagnostic barriers.
Olivia A. Stein, Jennifer L. F. Lee, Evelyne Vinet, Arielle Mendel, Christian A. Pineau, Fares Kalache, Louis‐Pierre Grenier, Sasha Bernatsky   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Is the role of Health Extension Workers in the delivery of maternal and child health care services a significant attribute? The case of Dale district, southern Ethiopia

BMC Health Services Research, 2017
Background The Health Extension Program (HEP) is one of the most innovative community based health program launched by the Ethiopian Federal Ministry of Health to make health services accessible to rural communities by setting-out women Health Extension ...
Abel Negussie, Gedion Girma
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Utilisation of Animal Husbandry Extension Services by Rainfed Farmers [PDF]

The State Departments of Animal Husbandry in India are the major agencies responsible for delivery of extension services to the farming community. The department has other important activities like promotion of cattle, buffalo, piggery, poultry, sheep ...
G.R.Desai, P.L.Manohari
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