EC71-799 Engineering the Irrigation Pumping Plant

Extension Circular 71-799: Engineering the irrigation pumping plant; pumps selection, pump drives, setting up the drives, power units, and direction for matching an electric motor to an irrigation pump

EC612-715 1960 Report of Irrigation Field Demonstrations

Extension Circular 61-715 is report of irrigation filed demonstration in central and southwestern Nebraska 1960

EC612-715 1960 Report of Irrigation Field Demonstrations

Extension Circular 61-715 is report of irrigation filed demonstration in central and southwestern Nebraska 1960

Research preparedness in undergraduate property and construction curriculum: the student experience

This study investigates the student experience of undergraduate research in order to develop a “research preparedness framework” that can be applied to the development of undergraduate curriculum design within a case study organisation. This research utilises built environment students from a Higher Education Institution in the UK. The study adopts a multi-method qualitative design using focus groups with various student cohorts, including Building Surveying, Real Estate Management and Quantity Surveying, followed by face-to-face interviews with industry representatives. This study highlights a discrepancy between student’s research preparedness and their understanding of its importance and perceived impact. It establishes areas for improvement within the curriculum to enhance students’ research preparedness throughout their undergraduate career. There are numerous benefits for students from being involved in research, such as developing a critical mind-set through the appraisal, collection, analysis and interpretation of complex information. However, students often do not see the tangible benefit of developing research skills to help them succeed and differentiate once they make their transition from higher education to employment. This study provides intriguing findings for anyone involved in property and construction curriculum across the globe, and will also appeal to any institution where students are undertaking research activities/projects

EC58-704 Efficient Irrigation

Extension Circular 58-704: This is about how to efficiently irrigate your crops

The Big Society and the Conjunction of Crises: Justifying Welfare Reform and Undermining Social Housing

The idea of the “Big Society” can be seen as culmination of a long-standing debate about the regulation of welfare. Situating the concept within governance theory, the article considers how the UK coalition government has justified a radical restructuring of welfare provision, and considers its implications for housing provision. Although drawing on earlier modernization processes, the article contends that the genesis for welfare reform was based on an analysis that the government was forced to respond to a unique conjunction of crises: in morality, the state, ideology and economics. The government has therefore embarked upon a programme, which has served to undermine the legitimacy of the social housing sector (most notably in England), with detrimental consequences for residents and raising significant dilemmas for those working in the housing sector

A Visual One-Time Password Authentication Scheme Using Mobile Devices

16th International Conference, ICICS 2014, Hong Kong, China, December 16-17, 2014The use of passwords for user authentication has become ubiquitous in our everyday lives. However, password theft is becoming a common occurrence due to a variety of security problems associated with passwords. As such, many organizations are moving towards adopting alternative solutions like one-time passwords, which are only valid for a single session. Nevertheless, various one-time password schemes also suffer from a number of drawbacks in terms of their method of generation or delivery. This paper presents the design of a challenge-response visual one-time password authentication scheme that is to be used in conjunction with the camera on a mobile device. The main purpose of the proposed scheme is to be able to send a challenge over a public channel for a user to obtain a session key, while safeguarding the user’s long-term secret key. In this paper, we present the authentication protocol, the various design considerations and the advantages provided by the scheme.Department of Computin

EC64-729 Off Season Care of Irrigation Equipment

Extension Circular 64-729 This circular is about how to care for irrigation equipment in the off seasons. Equipment items discussed are power units, electric motors, drives, pumps, pipes, and sprinklers

EC69-729 Off Season Care of Irrigation Equipment

Extension circular 69-729 is about off season care of irrigation equipment

EC61-717 Watering and Fertilizing Lawns through Sprinklers

Extension Circular 61-717 is about watering and fertilizing lawns through sprinklers