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Assessing the Impacts of Mobile Technology in Crop Farming. A Comparative Literature Review of the Effectiveness of Mobile Applications and Related Systems in Enhancing Access to better Market for Smallholder Farmers.

Abstract Most mobile apps and web-based platforms supporting agriculture were introduced, revolutionized, or updated decades ago. The introduction of these platforms has appeared like a revolution, stirring smallholder farming in Kenya and around the world. However, studies examined in this review depict that their benefits to smallholder farmers are an illusion at best. Access to market remains the same both locally and internationally for most farmers, production, and access to farm inputs record little significant improvement, and the monopoly of the middleman remains untamed. Whether there are real benefits to the farmer using the app for their activities, relative to those relying on traditional channels such as word of mouth from professionals, experience about weather trends and farm inputs, internet kiosks, or radio to access information supporting their farming is the focus of this proposed study. The present review depicts that rather than benefits from the apps being ta...

Surveys: Data, Field Teams, and Management

Summary As a data professional, do you constantly worry about time and software for your surveys? Are you better off with an in-house data collection and survey management team or you'd rather outsource? Let's find out together in full article. Click buy now to read or download.

The Right Outsourcing Partner

Summary Outsourcing, especially all or some functions of data processing is important for your peace of mind, let's look at the evidence gathered together in the article. Click purchase to access the full text.

Data Entry Requires Skills: Who is Qualified

Summary Anyone with IT skills and good education can claim to have data entry skills or capacity, and they are not entirely wrong. However, for credibility and accuracy, data clerks might need alittle more than a college degree or diploma. It is not anymore everyone's Job, and it has never been. This timely article looks at both skills, and preparation required to make sound data entry personnel from the perspective of a data professional and research into the skills and trends around data processes. Intrigued? See the full text in my secure payment link below.

KNIFE CRIME IN ENGLAND AND WALES

Executive Summary The present analysis has been informed by the prevalence of crime related to knife stabbing across most of the London boroughs excluding the city. While crime can emanate from various variables within a society, the UK system is used to offer youth services and funding for such services maintained by the local authorities. Due to reasons that are not clear, such findings have been consistently cut from 2010 to the present. With the cut in children, services have come escalated cases of violent crimes where blades and stabbing weapons have been utilised. The category of weapons with bladed and stabbing edges constitutes a wider spec of knife-related crimes across Britain and Wales. Many news networks have reported different aspect of crime related to knife and postulated that the lack of gainful employment or services that keeps the youth busy and away from crime and their reduction in resources that funded them has been the cause of such violent crimes and hence deat...

Inferential Statistics: Focus on the P Value

Abstract As I sit at my desk, I realize it's hardly a year since my graduation in July 2016. What occupies my mind is the inconsistency with which inferences made from the utilization of P Value as an assessment of statistical significance are skewed towards biases of analysts, sometimes just a result of blatantly confusing principles of model assumption. My quick research reveals that statistics as a field experiences selective interpretation of statitics, and detrimental of them all is the probability related value, P value. This article gives an insight on the correct interpretation of P value, relative to a pre-determined level of significance for a hypothesis test. The overall theme leading to inconsistencies or inacuracies with P value is in the violation of data analysis protocols. Find out in the full text, issues around interpretation of the P value and insights; A large P value favors Null hypotheses! Access the full text via my secure payment link below. ...

Lady Dai's Tomb in Mawangdui

Abstract Lady Dai’s tomb in Mawangndui would be among three very historic tombs in Chinese history whose discovery relates to the early 1970s. These are on a hill in Changsha, close to the capital of Hans’s dynasty in the Hunan Province of China. Of interest is a banner shaped in the form of a ‘T’ in the tomb of Lady Dai would have whose significance to the culture of Chinese is remarkable. These symbols as discovered in this research depict Chinese abstraction that regards the cosmos and the afterlife during the Western Han Dynasty. In a seamless chronology of events within the Han Dynasty, find out the mysteries of ancient China and records about ancient chinese royalty. What's more you can keep the conversation going by asking questions in the comment section or via an email to further the discussion on this thrilling piece of literature. Click the secure payment link below for full access to the 9 plus pages at a discounted price.