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Climate change is creating serious challenges for fisheries in coastal Nigeria. Fisheries extension workers, who support fishers with advice and training, must themselves be resilient to continue delivering services. Thi...

This study examined the agricultural extension services offered for vegetable production in the Southern Agricultural Zone of Cross River State, Nigeria. A multistage sampling procedure was used to select 150 vegetable f...

The study examined the computer literacy levels among extension officers employed by the Ministry of Agriculture in Botswana. The research was motivated by the growing demand for digital competence among extension worker...

Background: Climate change has a negative impact on smallholder farming, affecting both agricultural production and livelihoods. Agricultural extension services offer an essential role in enabling smallholder farmers to...

Climate-smart agricultural (CSA) technologies are vital for enhancing the climate resilience of high-value, climate-sensitive crops like vanilla in Sub-Saharan Africa. While institutional support through agricultural ext...

This study explains how consumers form attitudes toward sustainable fashion line extensions by integrating Brand Extension Theory (BET) with the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB). Using survey data from 786 consumers in P...

Abstract Background Pediatric habitual patellar dislocation in extension (E-HPD) is a rare and specific form of patellar dislocation with limited reports in the literature. For children with immature epiphyses, the gold ...

Convergent extension (CE) is a fundamental morphogenetic process where oriented cell behaviors lead to polarized extension of diverse tissues. In vertebrates, regulation of CE requires both non-canonical Wnt, its co-rece...

Background: The transition from arithmetic to algebra remains a persistent challenge in early mathematics education. While structural awareness is widely recognised as foundational to this shift, the developmental mecha...

This paper suggests that the sociological theory of emotional labour is a useful way to interpret how teaching practices in Higher Education often involve the simultaneous management of both staff and student wellbeing. ...

Changes in the conceptions of extension and rural innovation, as well as the persistence of diffusionist extension approaches, require rethinking training strategies for rural extensionists. Drawing upon conceptual insig...

Abstract The extreme positive Indian Ocean Dipole (EXpIOD) peaking in 2023 boreal fall exhibited the strongest variations in sea level and subsurface temperature in the eastern Indian Ocean (IO), and the most equatoriall...

Akçal Au-Ag mineralization is located in one of the most important metallogenic provinces in Tethys Orogenic Belt, Biga Peninsula. In the study area, widespread argillic alteration is observed and mined in previous year...

Leniolisib, a selective PI3Kδ inhibitor, is a Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved treatment for activated PI3Kδ syndrome (APDS) in patients ≥12 years weighing ≥45 kg. To determine its impact on children, pa...

The study reports photographic evidence of range extension for three avian species: Western Tragopan Tragopan melanocephalus (Gray, 1829), Tibetan Snowcock Tetraogallus tibetanus (Gould, 1854), and Tibetan Sandgrouse Syr...

We find necessary and sufficient conditions on a Banach space X in order for the vector-valued extensions of several operators associated to the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck semigroup to be of weak type (1,1) or strong type (p,p) ...

The study explored the dynamics of institutional linkages and stakeholders’ influences within the agricultural knowledge and information system framework in Pakistan. A cross-sectional survey design was adopted. Quanti...

The potential risk areas for emerging or reemerging diseases are determined by the presence, abundance, and distribution of mosquitoes. Here new records and geographical distribution extension of mosquito species in phyt...

This study assessed the adoption of digital financial services (DFS) among smallholder farmers in North Central Nigeria. It investigated their usage, knowledge, and how their educational level affected the adoption of DF...

The study examined challenges to smallholder rice farmers’ participation in cluster farming in Ebonyi State, Nigeria. A sample of 220 smallholder rice farmers were selected using a multistage sampling procedure. Data f...

This study examined the management of conflicts between rural farmers and herders in Nigeria. Data were collected through a survey of 300 farmers selected using multistage sampling procedure. Data analysis included the u...

Abstract Background The arthroscopic posterior transseptal approach (TSA) allows improved visualization of the posterior compartment of the knee joint. However, it can be associated with increased risks particularly rega...

Background: To facilitate the fusion of the injury site for non-operative treatment or postoperative care, various braces are available to immobilize an unstable cervical spine. Among these, Minerva and Halo braces are t...

Abstract This study investigated how joint dynamics and kinematics change with increasing squat intensity in elite powerlifters performing the powerlifting-style low-bar back squat. Twenty-nine national- and internationa...