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A Qualitative Look Into Repair Practices, Jumana Labib
A Qualitative Look Into Repair Practices, Jumana Labib
Undergraduate Student Research Internships Conference
This research poster is based on a working research paper which moves beyond the traditional scope of repair and examines the Right to Repair movement from a smaller, more personal lens by detailing the 6 categorical impediments as dubbed by Dr. Alissa Centivany (design, law, economic/business strategy, material asymmetry, informational asymmetry, and social impediments) have continuously inhibited repair and affected repair practices, which has consequently had larger implications (environmental, economic, social, etc.) on ourselves, our objects, and our world. The poster builds upon my research from last year (see "The Right to Repair: (Re)building a better future"), this time pulling …
Some Statistical Considerations To On-Farm Trials In Kenya, Peter M. Njuho
Some Statistical Considerations To On-Farm Trials In Kenya, Peter M. Njuho
Conference on Applied Statistics in Agriculture
The issue of design and analysis of on-farm trials is not clearly understood by agricultural researcher in Kenya. Since on-farm trials require participation and co-operation of the farmers who often differ in education level, chances of collecting unreliable and quite variable data are high. This paper highlights the importance of collecting quality data from on-farm trials, and in particular from the researcher designed and farmer managed trial type. Some complexities associated with the implementation, application of basic statistical principles, and analysis of on-farm trials are discussed. Questions that need to be considered priori to the implementation of any trial implementation …