This paper develops a three-sector theoretical growth model to capture the role of consumers’ acceptance towards the second generation of genetically modified (GM) crops in the long run growth process of the economy. An Acceptance (towards GM crop) parameter is defined as a ratio of consumption of GM to traditional variety of food, whose growth rate is determined by growth rate of human capital. Dynamic stability of the system is ensured provided the value of acceptance parameter is within a certain range. A range of the acceptance parameter is also obtained which ensures not only the dynamic stability of the system but also ensures higher rate of growth of an economy that produces both GM and non-GM crops compared to an economy that does not produce GM crops. The empirical validation of the model through panel data analysis suggests that research and development activity in agriculture is key to the growth process of the economy as it helps to form acceptance towards new technology among consumers.

In Bangladesh, there are improvements in secondary education by quantitative indicators but satisfactory picture is remained far from the quality. The gross deficiency in teaching includes one of the main reasons for poor quality of secondary education. There are higher failure rates in Mathematics subject in Secondary School Certificate examination in the last consecutive years. An extensive review of research has shown that teachers account to a large extent for student learning and achievement gains. For secondary teacher education in Bangladesh, there is a one year long training program named as Bachelor of Education (B.Ed.). Therefore, the study sought to find out the effectiveness of B.Ed. program on mathematics teachers’ teaching practices as a means of improving secondary school mathematics in Bangladesh. The study was conducted among 38 mathematics teachers (trained and untrained) selected from 16 secondary schools of Dhaka city using survey method. Their classroom teachings were observed as well as mathematics teachers, head teachers, instructors and principal of Teachers Training College were interviewed. The study found that the B.Ed. trained mathematics teachers (61%) possess better teaching skills than their counterpart (50%) but the trained mathematics teachers did not exercise the B.Ed. outcomes fully in actual teaching (3.06 out of 5). There found no relation between teachers’ personal characteristics and their pedagogical skills. This was the first study to investigate the effectiveness of secondary teacher education program within Bangladesh. It contributes important insights about secondary teacher education that can be used to inform the professional development of the secondary school mathematics teachers in Bangladesh.

Gait is a biometric trait that has been used for user authentication or verification on the basis of various attributes of gait. Gait of an individual get affected due to variation in mood, emotions, age and weight, due to these variation a perfect model is not possible that can be developed so that these all factors can be eliminated. In the proposed work, CASIA dataset has been used as standard dataset. This dataset contains samples of 16 different individuals that have been taken at 0, 45, 90 degrees of angles. Afterwards, silhouette images have been taken for feature extraction from the gait samples using variable2-dimenssiaonl principal component analysis with neural network classifier.Along with this, validation of the proposed work has been done using two performance evaluation parameters, namely, FAR and FRR through confusion matrix.

Researches focused on Supply Chain Management – SCM – have increased in relevance since 1990’s due to its potential to generate opportunities of adding value to the companies and gaining competitive advantage on today’s global market. However, there are still lacks in the literature about the dimensions that promote the maturity and success of SCM and a deeper understanding of their relations. Considering that such knowledge can only be fully achieved through a model that aggregates all known dimensions of the SCM maturity, the present paper brings up thought a systematic literature review the proposal of a framework showing the relationship between Supply Chain Management Maturity and Supply Chain Management Concept. The main contribution of this paper is to present a better understanding of SCM maturity dimensions and SCM concept dimensions proposed on the literature and then show its relations. This framework can also support future field researches aiming to better understand the phenomenon of this relationship and provide a deeper view in terms of SCM theory and application.

Bioinformatics plays a significant role in the development of the agricultural sector, agro-based industries, agricultural by-products utilization and better management of the environment. With the increase of sequencing projects, bioinformatics continues to make considerable progress in biology by providing scientists with access to the genomic information. It is believed that we will take on another giant leap in bioinformatics field in next decade, where computational models of systems wide properties could serve as the basis for experimentation and discovery. Agricultural bioinform -atics areas that need focus would be are data curation and need for the use of restricted vocabularies. Being an interface between modern biology and informatics it involves discovery, development and implementation of computational algorithms and software tools that facilitate an understanding of the biological processes with the goal to serve primarily agriculture and healthcare sectors with several spinoffs. Bioinformatics is more often a tool than a discipline, the tools for analysis of biological data. The ability to represent high resolution physical and genetic maps of plants has been one of the great applications of bioinformatics tools.

Introduction: Human Immunodeficiency Virus /Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (HIV/AIDS) has become increasingly public health problem worldwide. Particularly in developing countries’ higher institutions like Ethiopia. The victims are youngsters; productive age of the population. The primary prevention and control of the spread of HIV/AIDS infection is through awareness and changing behavior remains at the highest priority. However few studies have been conducted among university students of Ethiopia on their self-efficacy of Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome prevention and control. Hence, this research was intended to investigate the Knowledge and self-efficacy of Madda Walabu University Undergraduate Students on HIV/AIDS.Methods: An institutional-based cross-sectional the study design was conducted among 605 under graduate students of MaddaWalabu University students were selected using random sampling and data were collected using by structured self-administered questionnaire. Descriptive independent sample t-test and ANOVA were computed to analyze the data. Result: This study result shows that among the total study participants, majority of the students (81.3%) has ever experienced sexual relationship. Nearly half (52.4%) of the students use condom during sexual intercourse consistently. About half (49.37%) of them had moderate level of knowledge regarding Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome infection, and of which only 28.4% of them had regular sexual partner. Students’ level of knowledge regarding Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome significantly predictor of their level of self-efficacy and condom use (R = 0.445 and R2 = 0.198). Conclusion: The knowledge students have on human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immune deficiency syndrome, significantly predicts self-efficacy of protecting oneself from HIV/AIDS. Most students at the age of adolescence habit sexual intercours

The authors establish a set of presumably new results, which provide general coordinate formula of strain(skew reflection) of ℝ2 onto ℝ2. Several closely related results are also considered.

Schistosome are a treamatode, snail-born parasitic of circulatory system in domestic animals and man. Ruminants are usually infected with cercariae by active penetration of the unbroken skin. Schistosoma bovis is the main cause of cattle schistosomiasis and is common in marshy area. A cross sectional study was conducted from November 2015 to March 2016 in and around Bakko town of Oromia, Ethiopia to investigate the prevalence and associated risk factors of bovine schistosomiasis. Simple random sampling technique was used to select 384 study animals and householders, whereas peasant associations (PA) were selected purposively focusing on those residing around Gibe River. Coprological examination with faecal sedimentation technique was used to recover the eggs of schistosoma. This revealed an overall prevalence of 22.92% (88/384) (95%CI: 18.71, 27.12). Multivariate logistic regression was used to examine the strength of association between predictor variables and the occurrence of schistosoma infection. Even though risk factors like sex, age, body condition score, months and origins were considered, only origin (p=0.000) and animals’ body condition score (p=0.001) were significantly associated with the occurrence of bovine schistosomiasis. Animals with medium and good body condition score were less likely to harbor Schistosoma bovis eggs than those with poor body conditions. This finding indicated that bovine schistosomiasis is one of the major livestock health problems which might be big limiter to livestock productivity in the study area. Therefore, further research should be conducted to obtain detailed information on its epidemiology for further control and prevention strategic development.

ue to its insularity, Madagascar possesses a wealth in heritage and in natural resources that explained themselves by a high rate of endemic biodiversity. Such an observation, related by several works on Madagascar, translates indeed the disposal of a large biologic diversity (RAZAFIARIJAONA, 2007). Wild species related to cultivated plants make up a genetic potential that can be used to develop and diversify the production of staple foods and that of other industrial plantations, and as such insure regional and national food security. In fact, for Madagascar, food plant species such as wild rices, sorghum, grapevine, tubers, fruit plants, spices, or commercial plants (vanilla and coffee) have been identified.Besides, other species such as fiber plants, tropical noble woods, medicinal plants, or aromatic plants of which plant genetic resource preservation would allow opportunities of high value-added transactions by agribusiness operations.

I. Introduction ccess right and profit sharing issues regarding plant genetic resources rely on the farmers’ and other users’ rights particularly for species used for food, medicinal and common usage purposes such as wood for energy, for timber or for art work. However the exercise of access rights as much for farmers as for other users is strongly linked to land constraints. Indeed, the terms of management transfer and that of land ownership transfer may be articulated with those related to certain procedures enacted by the estate law respectively by concession, long term lease, operating license, or land Endowment to local communities with transfer fees or for free to the operators.