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Preparing Teachers to Formatively Assess
To engage in formative assessment, preservice teachers (PSTs) need to develop skill with the practice of interpretation. The initial preparation of teachers would benefit from having a sense of the interpretation skills brought...
Published by: IGI Global
Design of a Blockchain-Based Smart Contract Model for Child Labor Alleviation
The achievements of west and central Africa in producing more than 60% of the world's cocoa, and sub-Saharan Africa's achievement in producing 13% of the world's cotton, hide child labor. These significant levels of production...
Published by: IGI Global
Off-Farm Income Effect on Farmer Response to Climate Change in the Northern Region of Ghana
This study assessed the effect of off-farm income on maize farmers' responses to climate change in the Tolon district of Northern Region of Ghana. Using multi-stage sampling technique and semi-structured questionnaires, 150...
Published by: IGI Global
Image Features Based Intelligent Apple Disease Prediction System
A pattern classifier (PC) is used to solve a variety of non-separable and complex computing problems. One of the key problems is to efficiently predict a type of disease in a typical fruit tree. The timely and accurately...
Published by: IGI Global
An Effective Multiple Linear Regression-Based Forecasting Model for Demand-Based Constructive Farming
Demand planning plays a very strategic role in improving the performance of every business, as the planning for a whole lot of other activities depends on the accuracy and validity of this exercise. The field of agriculture is...
Published by: IGI Global
Health Detection of Wheat Crop Using Pattern Recognition and Image Processing
Agriculture plays a vital role in India's economy. 44% of the employment in India is engaged in agriculture and allied activities and it also contributes 17% of the gross value added. As most of the country's people are in the...
Published by: IGI Global
Personas, the Pandemic, and Inclusive, Synthetic, Smart City Planning
In the era of COVID-19 planners, and more broadly, city administrators and policy makers, have learned to cope with the accelerated pace of change, the broad band of uncertainty, and the need for rapid decision-making...
Published by: IGI Global
The Rise of Anti-immigrant Policies
This article examines United States immigration policy in three states: Arizona, Alabama, and Indiana. All three states have varying rates of Latino immigration and a complex set of socioeconomic and cultural factors; yet...