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Technology Package For Prevention And Control Of Mastitis In Dairy Animals, Keshav Sah

Scale Up Conference

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Hygrometer, Jacob Ricker-Gilbert, Hira Channa, Charles Woloshuk

Scale Up Conference

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Chimney Solar Dryer, Anthony Phan, Erin Mcguire

Scale Up Conference

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Hub-And-Spoke Food Processing Innovation System, Bruce Hamaker

Scale Up Conference

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Kero Porridge Flour: A Gift Of Being, Elyse Habumukiza

Scale Up Conference

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Mobile Utility Grain Storage, William Lanier

Scale Up Conference

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Summary And Recommendations, Larry Cooley

Scale Up Conference

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Scaling Up Orange-Fleshed Sweet Potato For Nutrition And Incomes, Simon Heck, Howarth Bouis

Scale Up Conference

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From Science To Scale: Alfasafe, Ranajit Bandyopadhyay, Matieyedou (Abdou) Konlambigue

Scale Up Conference

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Scaling Quality Vegetable Varieties In Africa, Pepijn Schreinemachers

Scale Up Conference

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Commercializing Strigaway Maize To Address Witchweed (Striga) In East Africa, Bob Rabatsky, Andrew Bracken

Scale Up Conference

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Scaling Agricultural Mechanization Worldwide: Case Of The 2-Wheel Tractor (2wt), Jelle Van Loon, Lennart Woltering

Scale Up Conference

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Synthesis And Characterization Of Polymer-Silica Composite Hydrogel Particles And Influence Of Hydrogel Composition On Cement Paste Microstructure, Matthew J. Krafcik, B Bose, Kendra Erk

School of Materials Engineering Faculty Publications

The objective of this research is to define the fundamental structure-property relationships of water-swollen polymer hydrogel particles that are employed as internal curing agents in cementitious mixtures, in addition to reporting a novel synthesis procedure for combining pozzolanic materials with hydrogel particles. Solution polymerization was performed to incorporate amorphous nanosilica particles within acrylic-based polymer hydrogel particles of varying chemical compositions (i.e., monomer ratio of acrylic acid (AA) to acrylamide (AM)). Experiments were designed to measure the absorption capacity and kinetics of hydrogel particles immersed in pure water and cementitious pore solution, as well as determine the impact of particles on …

Monitoring And Evaluation, Paul Winters

Scale Up Conference

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Responsible Scaling Of Agricultural Innovations, Robert Mclean, Tricia Wind

Scale Up Conference

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Seed Systems, Louise Sperling

Scale Up Conference

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Institutionalization Of Scaling, Johannes Linn

Scale Up Conference

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Ict4d, Shaun Ferris

Scale Up Conference

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Responsible Scaling Of Agricultural Innovations, Seerp Wigboldus

Scale Up Conference

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From Thousands To Millions: Selected World Bank Experience On Scaling Up Innovations In Agriculture, Simeon Ehui

Scale Up Conference

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Usaid's Tool For Assessing Scalability: Lessons From Development And Applications, Richard Kohl, Mark Huisenga

Scale Up Conference

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Africa's Private Sector-Led Seed Revolution, Joe Devries

Scale Up Conference

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Scaling Up Agricultural Machinery In Bangladesh, Timothy Prewitt, Conor Riggs

Scale Up Conference

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Incentivizing Affordable On-Farm Storage For Smallholder Farmers, Parasto Hamed

Scale Up Conference

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If We Had A Prologue: Lessons From A System Migration, Jodi Shepherd, Laura Krier

Charleston Library Conference

This paper is a reflection on a library system migration project from two project managers at two different campuses. The authors discuss challenges encountered, approaches taken, priorities established, and perhaps most importantly, what each would do differently with the benefit of hindsight. For those who are preparing to undertake a system migration, this paper will offer guidance and advice.

Laying Down The Whack-A-Mole Mallet: One Inexperienced Erm Team’S Story About Adopting The Agile Philosophy To Manage Electronic Resources, Geraldine Rinna

Charleston Library Conference

The transitory nature of electronic resources requires that staff and faculty working in this realm keep a vigilant eye out for the myriads of changes that inevitably come our way. We are often required to suspend a critical task for a more critical task, and keeping up with all the work we have to do is daunting, if not overwhelming. Electronic resource management (ERM) requires agility. If our aim is to provide superior customer service, we must continually adapt to the landscape of the day. ERM systems have made tremendous progress toward managing electronic resources in the last ten years. …

Level Up: Transitioning To A New Library, Sara E. Duff

Charleston Library Conference

After seven years as a librarian at a small community college in the Florida panhandle, I accepted a position at one of the largest research universities in the country. After I made this move, I heard from a number of people inquiring how I was handling working at such a drastically different library. Transitioning to a new library can be difficult in any circumstance, but adjusting to such a different institution added new wrinkles. Anyone thinking of making such a change, or supervising anyone making such a change, will find something useful in my reflections.

Introduction To Electronic Resource Acquisition, Linda Creibaum, Star Holloway

Charleston Library Conference

Two acquisitions librarians led an informal introduction to the basics of electronic resource acquisition in this session intended for those new to this unique and intricate field. The session explored acquiring e-books, journals, journal backfiles, primary source collections, and databases. Topics of discussion included vendor selection and services, timing for trials and purchases, access options, price negotiation, and licensing concerns. This session also reviewed communications with campus constituents concerning resource changes.

Participants left the session with a better understanding of possible options, considerations, resources, and support structures available to them as acquisition specialists.

Reimagining Print Materials In A Health Science Context: Creating And Marketing A Wellness Collection, Margaret Ansell, Ariel Pomputius

Charleston Library Conference

In the healthcare field in which out-of-date information can harm patients, the currency and immediacy of digital collections is highly valued. As a result, many health science libraries have deselected much of their print collections (Haapanen, Kultamaa, Ovaska, & Salmi, 2015; Lingle & Robinson, 2009; Tobia & Hunnicutt, 2008; Xiaoli & Kopper, 2005). However, print materials continue to be valued by health science library users for a variety of purposes (Houghton, 2017; Watson, 2016). This paper describes how one academic health science center library found a role for print materials in the context of a wellness initiative, which (1) gave …

Innovations In Discovery Systems: User Studies And The Bento Approach, William H. Mischo, Michael A. Norman, Mary C. Schlembach

Charleston Library Conference

Over the past 30 years, library discovery services have evolved through expanded OPACs, federated search systems employing broadcast searching; Web-scale discovery systems (WSDS) that aggregate metadata and full-text content into a single integrated index; and, currently, hybrid bento-style systems that use federated techniques over WSDS, OPACs, and local information content. The bento systems partition search results into separate zoned screen displays grouped by content format type and/or local service results. Recent studies on Web-scale discovery systems have identified a number of user access issues centering on problems with blended result displays, problematical relevancy rankings of search results, full-text search problems, …