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A Study of Assessment and Acting Factors on Young Teachers' Knowledge, Attitude and Practice (KAP) for Food Security

Changfa Wu and Haiyan Qi
Department of Literature and Education, Bengbu College, Bengbu, Anhui 233030, P.R. China
Advance Journal of Food Science and Technology   2015  8:633-636
http://dx.doi.org/10.19026/ajfst.9.1979  |  © The Author(s) 2015
Received: April ‎17, ‎2015  |  Accepted: May ‎10, ‎2015  |  Published: September 10, 2015

Abstract

Young teachers have been a drive for development to our country’s universities. In order to follow their awareness of food security and physical status with interest, we, firstly, carry out an investigation into the young teachers’ Knowledge, Attitude and Practice (KAP) under the age of 40 by cluster sampling in the 14 universities in Anhui province, then, make analysis of the data through statistic methods of T test and the other tests concerned, with conclusions that the positive correlations lie between the knowledge and the attitude, the attitude and the practice while the knowledge and the practice have not interrelated evidently. Finally, we submit proposals for how to improve the young teachers’ consciousness for food security from the respects of KAP in universities in Anhui province.

Keywords:

BP Algorithm, food network marketing, genetic algorithm, performance evaluation, rough set,


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Competing interests

The authors have no competing interests.

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ISSN (Online):  2042-4876
ISSN (Print):   2042-4868
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