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Changes in Academic Rigor and Faculty Perception of Student Learning in the Post-Secondary Classroom During COVID-19
(North American Colleges and Teachers of Agriculture, 2021-10)The environment created by Covid-19 did not allow for face-to-face instruction, forcing educators to transition courses online. While Covid-19 disrupted the learning experience, it also accelerated the delivery of online ... -
Learning Management Software (LMS) for Teaching Agricultural Sciences: The Role of Age in Faculty's Adoption Before and During COVID-19
(North American Colleges and Teachers of Agriculture, 2021-10)Public health guidance during Covid-19 required educators to transition their face-to-face courses to online platforms. Accordingly, faculty adopted technology into their pedagogy to maintain continuity in the online ... -
Effect of upstream processing on nutritional value of post-extraction algal residue for beef cattle
(Animal Nutrition Association, 2021-10-19)Post-extraction algal residue (PEAR), a co-product from extracting algal oil for conversion to biofuel, has the potential to be marketed as livestock feed. However, the algal biofuel industry has not yet adopted standardized ... -
Examining Student Perceptions of Their Experience in a TBL Formatted Capstone Course
(American Association for Agricultural Education, 2018-01)While shown to be less effective than active learning strategies, traditional methods of content delivery in post-secondary classrooms are the most prominent. Flipped classrooms, an example of an active learning approach, ... -
Texas Agricultural Science Teachers’ Attitudes toward Information Technology
(Virginia Tech Publishing, 2012-12)The researchers sought to find the Agricultural Science teachers’ attitude toward five innovations (Computer-Aided Design, Record Books, E-Mail Career Development Event Registration, and World Wide Web) of information ... -
Adoption of Technology and Social Media in the Post-Secondary Agricultural Classroom Before and as a Result of COVID-19
(North American Colleges and Teachers of Agriculture, 2021-04)Coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) disrupted daily life on a global scale. Arguably, those involved in education were among the most affected by COVID-19 as mandated school closures demanded an abrupt shift to online classrooms. ... -
Adoption of Software in the Post-Secondary Agricultural Classroom as a Result of the COVID-19 Pandemic
(North American Colleges and Teachers of Agriculture, 2021-04)Covid-19 required educational institutions to respect social distancing guidelines, forcing faculty to adapt their face-to-face courses into an online format. The diffusion of innovations theory provides the framework for ... -
The Role of Species and Systems in the Development and Growth of Aquaculture in Asia: Needs and Prospects
(John Wiley & Sons, 2007-08)During the previous three decades aquaculture development in Asia was characterized by a broad spectrum of users, systems, practices, and species through a continuum ranging from backyard household operations to ...
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Sources of family income and their effects on family income inequality: A study of fish farmers in Tripura, India
(Springer Nature, 2010-10)An improved understanding of the sources of income and income distribution provides instructive insights into food insecurity and poverty, helping policy makers in the developing world to formulate new strategies for ... -
A Multistage Budgeting Approach to the Analysis of Demand for Fish: An Application to Inland Areas of Bangladesh
(The University of Chicago Press, 2011-03)This study was conducted to estimate the elasticities of demand for eight different fish types and four income groups in Bangladesh using year-round data collected from inland areas of the country. It uses a three-stage ... -
Analysis of Demand System for Unbreaded Frozen Seafood in the United States Using Store-level Scanner Data
(The University of Chicago Press, 2012-12)This article uses weekly national store-level scanner data acquired from A.C. Nielsen Inc., to analyze demand for 14 unbreaded frozen seafood products in the United States (U.S.). While utilization of scanner data for food ... -
Impact of Development and Dissemination of Integrated Aquaculture-Agriculture (IAA) Technologies in Malawi
(WorldFish Center, 2006-06)Malawi is a small but densely populated country in Southern Africa. Fish is an important part of the nutrition of Malawians, providing essential protein and micronutrients. However, per capita fish consumption has halved ... -
An Intra-farm Study of Production Factors and Productivity for Shrimp Farms in Bangladesh: An Index Approach
(The University of Chicago Press, 2008-01)The production characteristics of shrimp farming in Bangladesh are reported based on a panel of farms for the period 1998 to 2002. The data allow for a profit decomposition based on the Törnqvist index, where differences ... -
Integrating Agriculture, Fisheries and Ecosystem Conservation: Win-win Solutions
(National Institute of Ecology, 2006-03)Integrated Agriculture-Aquaculture (IAA) is essentially diversification of agriculture, leading to synergisms among sub-systems resulting in a higher productivity from land/water area under the farmers' control. One ...
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Pregnant women in Louisiana are not meeting dietary seafood recommendations
(Hindawi, 2016-07)Background. The 2015–2020 Dietary Guidelines for Americans recommend that pregnant women and women of childbearing ages consume 8–12 oz. of seafood per week. Fish are the major dietary source of omega-3 long chain ... -
Relationship between endocannabinoids during pregnancy and infant heart rate and heart rate variability
(E-Cronicon, 2021-01)Maternal factors during pregnancy affect fetal and infant heart rate (HR) and heart rate variability (HRV), clinical indices of early life autonomic development. Although there is an established relationship between ... -
On the tradeoff between the mean and the variance in foraging: Effect of spatial distribution and color preference
(Ecological Society of America, 1982-12)An enclosed colony of bumblebees (Bombus pennsylvanicus) was restricted to foraging on two artificial flower types. The means and variances were adjusted in the two flower types in order to detect risk sensitivity. Both ... -
Interspecific patterns of phenotypic selection do not predict intraspecific patterns
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2014-01)We estimated linear (β) and nonlinear (γ) selection gradients to quantify host plant‐mediated selection on the trait gall size in each of 22 unequally sampled subpopulations of the cynipid gall wasp Belonocnema treatae. ... -
Increased income from seasonally flooded rice fields through community based fish culture in Bangladesh and Vietnam
(Taylor & Francis, 2005-02)In extensive river floodplains and deltaic lowlands, floods lasting several months render the land unavailable for crop (often rice) production during the rainy season. Aside from crop production during the flood-free dry ... -
The value of post-extracted algae residue
(Elsevier, 2012-10)This paper develops a hedonic pricing model for post-extracted algae residue (PEAR), which can be used for assessing the economic feasibility of an algal production enterprise. Prices and nutritional characteristics of ...
