Reza Movahedi; Masoud Samian; Nasim Izadi; Marjan sepahpanah
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The study's population included 500 both graduate and undergraduate students at Bu-Ali Sina University in 2017 academic year. A number of 217 students were randomly selected as samples using Morgan's sampling size table. In order to validate the questionnaire and access to reliable variables both panel ...
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The study's population included 500 both graduate and undergraduate students at Bu-Ali Sina University in 2017 academic year. A number of 217 students were randomly selected as samples using Morgan's sampling size table. In order to validate the questionnaire and access to reliable variables both panel of experts and a pre-test method were used. The reliability of the questionnaire estimated with R, was 0.88. Results showed that majority of the students (52.4 %) agreed to virtual social networks with a positive attitude. The students on graduated level and female gender have used VSNs more than other groups. The results of factor analysis of the effects of social networks on improvement of learning activities showed that the most important factors were the exchange of information with classmates and teachers, improving the culture of study and learning, improving personal and social communication and increasing the probability of job placement. The factors explain 61% of the variance of all variables. Also, the results of Spearman correlation coefficient showed that there is a significant relationship between gender and educational level of agricultural students with their attitude toward using social networks in the level of 99%, and the results of Kruskal Wallis test also indicate that between The attitude of male and female students towards social networks is significantly different at 99 percent
Hamid Movahed Mohammadi; Fereshteh Shaeri; Amir Alambeigi
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Providing a Balanced Growth Context The competencies of learners in the Teaching-learning process are realized in entrepreneurial education formation. The number of proposed strategies for implementing entrepreneurial education requires a strategy that is most consistent with the educational system. ...
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Providing a Balanced Growth Context The competencies of learners in the Teaching-learning process are realized in entrepreneurial education formation. The number of proposed strategies for implementing entrepreneurial education requires a strategy that is most consistent with the educational system. With this approach, the aim of the current applied research was to prioritize strategies for the establishment of entrepreneurial education in the agricultural education system. A panel of 21 experts was selected to address the priority network of entrepreneurial education strategies. Based on the analytical network process, which is the general theory of relative measurement, for the inference of the relative importance of composite priority, the elements of the network of relationships between the criteria and the strategies that form the basis of entrepreneurial education in a decision space were measured. Solving the Super Matrix with Super Decision software showed that the university-industry collaboration (UIC) in a network structure plays a role as the most appropriate strategy for realizing agricultural entrepreneurial education criteria. The result of the sensitivity analysis showed that the proposed structure could be repeatable.
Saeed Mohammadzadeh; Mahboubeh Asimeh
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The purpose of this study was to investigate students’ attitudes toward academic cheating and its effecting factors in the Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources University of Khuzestan. This research has been done through a descriptive-correlational method and data were gathered through a ...
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The purpose of this study was to investigate students’ attitudes toward academic cheating and its effecting factors in the Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources University of Khuzestan. This research has been done through a descriptive-correlational method and data were gathered through a questionnaire. The statistical population of the study consisted of 1456 undergraduate students of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources University of Khuzestan, among whom 232 were selected by using a stratified sampling method. The results of the research showed that the most common methods of cheating in exams are to look at the sheets and write on paper, and the most common methods of cheating in homework are getting articles from the Internet and taking homework from classmates. The results of correlation analysis showed that there is a negative and significant relationship between the mean of the variable and the attitude toward cheating. The results of the Mann Whitney test also showed that there is a significant difference between the attitudes of people with a dismissed background and those who do not have a dismissed background. According to the results of Kruskal Wallis test, there is a significant difference between the students of the three colleges regarding of attitude towards cheat, and students of the Faculty of Agricultural Engineering and Rrural Development had a more negative attitude towards cheating. The results of factor analysis also showed that two factors of educational planning weakness and situational factors can explain more than 40% of variance in the motivation of academic cheating.
mahnaz amiramini khalafloo; nozar monfared; Parviz Bayat; hassan alipour
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One of the essential needs of human nutrition is animal protein supply. In recent years, poultry meat as a valuable source of protein in human nutrition is used in Iran and the world. Triple diseases Newcastle, Flu and Bronchitis have long been the main causes of poultry mortality in most countries. ...
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One of the essential needs of human nutrition is animal protein supply. In recent years, poultry meat as a valuable source of protein in human nutrition is used in Iran and the world. Triple diseases Newcastle, Flu and Bronchitis have long been the main causes of poultry mortality in most countries. Therefore, recognizing farmers, knowledge and managerial practices about triple poultry diseases helps development actors’ effort to improve production and increase efficiency in this sector. Promoting poultry farmers, knowledge and management practices are the basic ways to achieve the goals in development of poultry industry. This study was conducted to investigate factors influencing knowledge, awareness and management practices of poultry farmers in Bushehr province about poultry diseases. The statistical population was 220 poultry farmers in Bushehr province. Based on Cochran sampling formula , 140 samples were selected. Data collection tool was a questionnaire that its validity was confirmed by experts and its reliability by Ordinal theta coefficient (theta=.078 -0.90). Results showed that knowledge of persons who are more educated and have access to more information significantly more. Knowledge of the disease, triple, social norms and access to information are variables affecting poultry farmers’ management practices.
yaser mohammadi; feizullah Monavvarifard; laleh salehi; reza movahedi
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Universities have a moral responsibility for increasing social awareness, knowledge, skills, and values to creating a sustainable future. However, integration sustainable development issues in higher education structure remains in its early stages and faces many challenges. Therefore, identify factors ...
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Universities have a moral responsibility for increasing social awareness, knowledge, skills, and values to creating a sustainable future. However, integration sustainable development issues in higher education structure remains in its early stages and faces many challenges. Therefore, identify factors that affecting on outspread of sustainable higher education are an undeniable fact to achieve to sustainable higher education and overcoming challenges facing the university to achieve sustainability. From 1810 individual of statistical population, 189 students were selected as sample using stratified random sampling (based on gender and degree). A researcher-made questionnaire was the main tool for collecting research data which experts confirmed its validity, and its reliability confirmed by calculating the ordinal theta (θ = 0.83 – 0.91). Data were analyzed using SPSSWin20 and R software. The findings of exploratory factor analysis revealed that seven factors include commitment to sustainability, knowledge, education for sustainability, cooperation and participation, attitude towards sustainability, support from top-managers of university and infrastructures, and organizational culture affecting on university’s activities to achieve to sustainable higher education. Results of ordinal regression indicated that the identified factors are good predictor for outspread of sustainable higher education and in total explained about 52.1% of variances of Sustainable higher education.
Arsalan irajirad; Mahmonir Teimoorzade namini
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Universities are mainly institutions in which knowledge is generated and disseminated. Therefore, it can be expected that universities play an important role in economic and social development based on a knowledge-based economy and, for the sake of achieving this goal, the use of all capacities, including ...
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Universities are mainly institutions in which knowledge is generated and disseminated. Therefore, it can be expected that universities play an important role in economic and social development based on a knowledge-based economy and, for the sake of achieving this goal, the use of all capacities, including intellectual capital, as an intangible asset, is important. The purpose of this research is to investigate the role of intermediary capital of communication on the relationship between human capital and the performance of faculty members and instructors in higher education centers of Jihad-e-Agriculture in 1397. In this regard, a sample of 140 people was selected using the Cochran formula with stratified random sampling. In order to collect data, the Nati and Narrator questionnaire (2017) was used. Validity (content, convergence and divergence), and reliability (Cronbach's alpha coefficient, composite and probability coefficient) of questionnaires indicate that the research measure expressions have a good validity and reliability. The analytical results by structural equation modeling using SMART-PLS3 software showed that both human capital and capital ratios have a positive and significant effect on performance. In addition, the variable of communicative capital plays a mediator effect on the relationship between human capital and performance.
Rezvan Ghanbari; zienab farashi; fatemeh maleki fard
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The rapid increase in world population and urban migration has led to an increase in demand for food, which in turn leads to the production of a large amount of agricultural waste, although it has been determined that waste accumulation has very harmful effects on humans and the environment, Such wastes, ...
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The rapid increase in world population and urban migration has led to an increase in demand for food, which in turn leads to the production of a large amount of agricultural waste, although it has been determined that waste accumulation has very harmful effects on humans and the environment, Such wastes, if properly managed, could be a important biological source for increasing food security in agricultural societies. However, despite the benefits of using agricultural wastes in terms of environmental and economic sustainability, such behaviour has not yet been accepted among farmers. The purpose of this study is to analysis psychological factors affect farmers' behaviour to reuse agricultural wastes. To achieve this goal, the theory of planned behaviour was used as the main framework. The population of the study was consisted of Farmers in Khoram Abad Township that according to Krejcie & Morgan table, the sample size was determined (n=375). A questionnaire was used to collect data. To analyze the data used structural equation modeling with using software AMOS24.The results showed that there is a significant difference between farmers who have participated in extension classes of waste management with farmers who have not participated in these classes in terms of behavior, attitude, subjective norm and behavioral beliefs. The results showed that attitude, subjective norm and perceived behavioral control have a positive relationship with farmers' behavior to reuse agricultural wastes. The results showed that the attitude had the most direct effect and behavioural beliefs had the most indirect effect on farmers' behaviour.
m.sh sharifsharifzadeh; Gholamhossein Abdollahzadeh; Loghman Abbasi; Mahnoosh Sharifi
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This research was conducted with the aim of qualitative explanation of a conceptual model for academic brand development in higher agriculture education, case of Gorgan University of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources. This qualitative research was done by the descriptive phenomenological method. ...
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This research was conducted with the aim of qualitative explanation of a conceptual model for academic brand development in higher agriculture education, case of Gorgan University of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources. This qualitative research was done by the descriptive phenomenological method. Data collection was conducted using semi-structured deep interview. Through theoretical sampling, 20 respondents were selected from the university community. The qualitative thematic content analysis was carried out to analyze the data. The findings of this research resulted in identifying and defining 116 indicators . The four-layer indicator set consists of 14 components. The first layer is the brand image of the university (brand equity); six components include brand awareness (5 indicators), brand association (6 indicators), brand superiority (5 indicators), brand emotional response or brand effect (6 indicators), brand identification (6 indicators), and brand resonance, including brand communication, loyalty, and support (with 9 indicators). The second layer, entitled University Experience, consists of three categories or components including relational-social Experience (8 indicators), personal development experience (9 indicators), and emotional experience (3 indicators). The third layer, or perceived service quality of the university, includes three components of educational quality (10 indicators), quality of life (8 indicators), and the quality of human and social relationships in the university or academic community (14 indicators) and the effects and outcomes of the university or the social presence of the university (14 indicators). The fourth layer, the perception of the quality of the host community of the university (place brand), is described with 10 indicators.
Saeid Karimi
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This descriptive correlational study was conducted to investigate the relationship between employability skills and career adaptability among agricultural students. The study population was 1300 senior bachelor agricultural students of Bu-Ali Sina University and Arak University in the academic year 1396-1397. ...
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This descriptive correlational study was conducted to investigate the relationship between employability skills and career adaptability among agricultural students. The study population was 1300 senior bachelor agricultural students of Bu-Ali Sina University and Arak University in the academic year 1396-1397. According to the table of Krejcie and Morgan, 341 of them were selected through proportional stratified sampling. A questionnaire was used to collect data. Validity of the questionnaire was approved based on the opinions of faculty members at Bu-Ali Sina University. A pilot study was conducted to determine the reliability of the instrument, which the Cronbach's alpha values for the main scales of the questionnaire, was at the appropriate level (in the range of 0.80 to 0.93). The collected data was analyzed using Canonical Correlation Analysis and Structural Equation Modeling technique by the help of SPSS and AMOS software. The results showed that there is a significant positive relationship between employability skills and career adaptability. Notably, problem solving skills were significantly related to the four sub-scales of career adaptability (career concern, career control, career confidence and career curiosity). The results of the study reveal the importance of developing students' employability skills in order to strengthen their career adaptability. The findings have implications for the development of employability skills and career adaptability.
yahya safisis; seyyed hamid movahhewd mohannadi; ahmad rezvanfar
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To succeed in the field of biotechnology, there is a need for trained human resources in all sectors. Comprehensive training is a prerequisite for the training of human resources. The purpose of this study was to identify the factors affecting on the educational requirements of the agricultural biotechnology ...
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To succeed in the field of biotechnology, there is a need for trained human resources in all sectors. Comprehensive training is a prerequisite for the training of human resources. The purpose of this study was to identify the factors affecting on the educational requirements of the agricultural biotechnology development from the viewpoint of agricultural researchers. The statistical population consisted of 421 researchers which worked in 14 agricultural research centers. The Cochran formula was used to determine the sample size. The sample size was 201, which increased to 216 researchers to reduce the error and also to cover the unanswered questionnaires. The data collection instrument was a questionnaire which its validity confirmed by Professors of Tehran University and the reliability of the variables was confirmed by a pre-test and ordinal coefficient theta (θ = 0.87) through R software. The results of the factor analysis showed that the factors affecting on educational requirements of agricultural biotechnology development can be classified in 6 groups. These were: the Policy making, Managerial, Researches, Extension, agricultural, and Consumable. These factors explained 49 percent of the total variance changes.
