Reluctancy in Monterey County to get COVID-19 Vaccine

The agency is Central Coast Visiting Nurses Association & Hospice. The Clinic department of the agency would be implementing the project. The communities served are Monterey, San Benito, and Santa Cruz counties. The problem related to my project is the vaccine hesitancy within Monterey County. The project’s purpose is to address the issue of vaccine hesitancy in Monterey County. The implementation method would be to do outreach within the county about upcoming vaccine clinics. The expected outcomes would be that more people would attend said vaccine clinics. The most important finding is that more people participated when there was outreach done and when the disease was more relevant during the time. The project had not met the expected outcome as more people began to not believe the vaccine was as necessary as it was before. The recommendation is to do more outreach for the vaccine clinics when the disease is more relevant and people are willing to get vaccinated

FAKTOR –FAKTOR YANG MEMPENGARUHI KEBIJAKAN DIVIDEN PADA PERUSAHAAN SEKTOR NON KEUANGAN YANG TERDAFTAR DI BEI PERIODE 2012-2016

This study aims to investigate the determinants of corporate dividend policy. Variabel used in this research is size, profitability, growth, cash, leverage, systematic risk (β) and investment opportunity. This Study uses the quantitative approach and multiple linear regression. The target populations of this study are all non-financial sector companies registered in Indonesia Stock Exchange in 2012-2016 which are equal to 1045 year observations. Subsequently, the robustness test is performed by clustering the target populations by company size, that is large company groups and small company groups. The study finds that size, profitability, cash and investment opportunity affect dividend policy negatively. While growth, leverage and systematic risk (β) affect dividend policy positively

Assessing the impact of the National Agricultural Advisory Services (NAADS) in the Uganda rural livelihoods:

"The National Agricultural Advisory Services (NAADS) program of Uganda is an innovative public-private extension service delivery approach, with the goal of increasing market oriented agricultural production by empowering farmers to demand and control agricultural advisory services. Although initial evaluations of NAADS have been quite favourable, these evaluations have been primary qualitative in nature. This study quantifies the initial impacts of NAADS in the districts and sub-counties where the program was operating by 2005. It is based on descriptive analyses of results of a survey of 116 farmer groups and 894 farmers in sixteen districts where the program was operating at the time and four districts where NAADS had not yet begun operating to control for factors that may have contributed to differing initial conditions among the communities. Based on observed differences across the NAADS and non-NAADS sub-counties, it appears that the NAADS program is having substantial positive impacts on the availability and quality of advisory services provided to farmers, promoting adoption of new crop and livestock enterprises as well improving adoption and use of modern agricultural production technologies and practices. NAADS also appears to have promoted greater use of post-harvest technologies and commercial marketing of commodities, consistent with its mission to promote more commercially-oriented agriculture. Despite positive effects of NAADS on adoption of improved production technologies and practices, no significant differences were found in yield growth between NAADS and non-NAADS sub-counties for most crops, reflecting the still low levels of adoption of these technologies even in NAADS sub-counties, as well as other factors affecting productivity. However, NAADS appears to have helped farmers to avoid the large declines in farm income that affected most farmers between 2000 and 2004, due more to encouraging farmers to diversify into profitable new farming enterprises such as groundnuts, maize and rice than to increases in productivity caused by NAADS. NAADS appears to be having more success in promoting adoption of improved varieties of crops and some other yield enhancing technologies than in promoting improved soil fertility management. This raises concern about the sustainability of productivity increases that may occur, since such increases may lead to more rapid soil nutrient mining unless comparable success in promoting improved soil fertility management is achieved. Continued emphasis on improving the market environment, promoting adoption of more remunerative crop enterprises, and applied agronomic research identifying more effective ways to profitably combine inorganic and organic soil fertility measures in different crop systems can help to address this problem. Shortage of capital and credit facilities was often cited by farmers as a critical constraint facing them, in addition to scarcity of agricultural inputs, lack of adequate farmland, unfavorable weather patterns and problems of pests and diseases. These emphasize that the quality of advisory services is not the only important factor influencing technology adoption and productivity, and the need for complementary progress in other areas, especially development of the rural financial system. Implications are drawn for enterprise targeting and ensuring sustainability of improvements in productivity, as well as for designing and implementing service provision programs in other parts of the Uganda and in other countries." from Author's AbstractImpact assessment, Agricultural extension,

Response of pigeonpea genotypes of differrent maturity duration to temperature and photoperiod in Kenya

Pigeonpea (Cajanus cajan (L.) Millsp.) is one of the major grain legumes grown in the tropics and subtropics. The crop is grown rainfed in prone drought areas where day length varies from 11 to 14 h and large differences in temperature are experienced, largely due to variations in altitude and latitude. Field studies were conducted with different pigeonpea [Cajanus cajan (L.) Millsp.] in Kenya to determine the effect of photoperiod and temperature on flowering. Variation in temperature was achieved by planting six genotypes at four locations varying inaltitude where temperature decreased with increase in altitude and variation in photoperiod was achieved through artificial lighting (about 12.6 hr - natural day length, 14.5 hr and 16.0 hr). The genotypes used in the study were carefully selected to represent different maturity duration (extra-short-, short-, medium- and long maturityduration) and major piegonpea production regions. Equations that describe the rates of development (1/f) were used to determine rates of progress of each genotype towards flowering as influenced by temperature and photoperiod. For photoperiods below 13 hr, rates of progress towards flowering were influenced by temperaturein give genotypes (ICPL 90011, ICPL 87091, ICP 7035, ICP 6927 and ICEAP 00040). The optimum temperature for rapid flowering were 24.7 oC for the extra-short-duration genotype, 23.1 oC for the shortduration genotye, 23.8 and 22.2 oC for medium-duration genotypes and 18.3 oC for the long-duration genotypes,22.2 oC for medium-duration genotypoes and 18.3 oC for the long-duration genotypes which indicated that the area of origin had a strong influence on adaptation. The effects of photoperiod on rates of progress towards flowering were investigated only under sub-optimal temperatures. The extra-short-duration genotype (ICPL 90011) was the least responsive to variation in photoperiod, while the two long duration genotypes (ICEAP 00040 and T-7) were to most sensitive to photoperiod variation with flowering rate reduced by 0.001 d-1 per hourincrease in day length

Improvement of Pigeonpea in Eastern and Southern Africa Annual Research Planning Meeting 1994 21-23 Sep 1994

This publication is a report of the second Annual Research Planning Meeting of the ICRISAT/African Development Bank Pigeonpea Improvement Project. The 35 delegates included scientists and senior research administrators from nine countries in the southern and eastern Africa region (Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Namibia, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia), and from ICRISAT. Progress made in collaborative pigeonpea research was reviewed at the Meeting, and detailed workplans and budgets formulated for research and extension work in each country for the 1994/95 crop season. The recommendations made at the Meeting stress several aspects, including the need for more rapid technology transfer, better availability of seed, regional nurseries for drought and wilt resistance screening, and more training programs, especially on pigeonpea utilization, in order to increase both local consumption and export

Genetic diversity in pigeonpea [Cajanus cajan (L.) Millsp.] Landraces as revealed by simple sequence repeat markers

Genetic relationships among 88 pigeonpea accessions from a presumed centre of origin and diversity, India and a presumed secondary centre of diversity in East Africa were evaluated using six microsatellite markers. Forty-seven (47) alleles were detected in the populations studied, with a mean of eight alleles per locus. Populations were defined by region (India and East Africa) and sub-populations by country in the case of East Africa and State in the case of India. Substantial differentiation among regions was evident from Roger’s modified distance and Wright’s F statistic. Greatest genetic diversity in terms of number of alleles, number of rare alleles and Nei’s unbiased estimate of gene diversity (H) was found in India as opposed to East Africa. This supports the hypothesis that India is the centre of diversity and East Africa is a secondary centre of diversity. Within East Africa, germplasm from Tanzania had the highest diversity according to Nei’s unbiased estimate of gene diversity, followed byKenya and Uganda. Germplasm from Kenya and Tanzania were more closely related than that of Uganda according to Roger’s modified distance. Within India, results did not indicate a clear centre of diversity. Values of genetic distance indicated that genetic relationships followed geographicalproximity

FAKTOR –FAKTOR YANG MEMPENGARUHI KEBIJAKAN DIVIDEN PADA PERUSAHAAN SEKTOR NON KEUANGAN YANG TERDAFTAR DI BEI PERIODE 2012-2016

This study aims to investigate the determinants of corporate dividend policy. Variabel used in this research is size, profitability, growth, cash, leverage, systematic risk (β) and investment opportunity. This Study uses the quantitative approach and multiple linear regression. The target populations of this study are all non-financial sector companies registered in Indonesia Stock Exchange in 2012-2016 which are equal to 1045 year observations. Subsequently, the robustness test is performed by clustering the target populations by company size, that is large company groups and small company groups. The study finds that size, profitability, cash and investment opportunity affect dividend policy negatively. While growth, leverage and systematic risk (β) affect dividend policy positively

Analysis of production costs, market opportunities and competitiveness of Desi and Kabuli chickpeas in Ethiopia

This study was conducted to examine the existing conditions of chickpeas in relation to production and marketing and outlines the major technological and institutional constraints for harnessing market opportunities in the chickpea sub-sector. The study determines variety introduction, market conditions and seed delivery systems in Ada'a-Liben woreda. This district is one of the major chickpea growing areas in which new market-preferred and high-value Kabuli types are being tested and promoted. Section two of this paper presents the research process and methods. This is followed by discussion of production trends, available technologies, costs and opportunities for chickpeas. An overview of the structure and organization of the chickpea marketing system is given in section four. Section five presents market conditions with emphasis on opportunities for Kabuli exports, quality requirements, grading systems, competitiveness of smallholder producers, and existing potentials in domestic markets. The final section summarizes the key findings and highlights issues for policy and future research

Harnessing Opportunities for Productivity Enhancement (HOPE) of Sorghum and Millets in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia [HOPE Project: Annual Progress Report for Year 3 (July 2011 – June 2012)]

The HOPE project has successfully completed its third year of operations. The project implemented all activities scheduled for Year 3, and produced a large number of major planned outputs. While a few outputs targeted for Years 2 and 3 still lag behind, quite a number of outputs scheduled for completion in Year 4 have already been produced by the end of Year 3