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Static and symmetric wormholes respecting energy conditions in Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity

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Properties of $n(\ge 5)$-dimensional static wormhole solutions are investigated in Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity with or without a cosmological constant $\Lambda$.
Hideki Maeda, K. A. Bronnikov, M. Visser, Masato Nozawa   +3 more
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2023–2027 CAP First Pillar Reform and Livestock Sector: Production and Economic Impacts on Italian Specialized Dairy Cattle Farms

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The present study uses an agroeconomic supply model to assess the impacts of 2023–2027 CAP on Italian specialized dairy cattle farms. The model considers the voluntary choice of Eco‐Scheme 1, specifically addressed to livestock farms, through the implementation of binary variables.
Davide Dell'Unto, Raffaele Cortignani
wiley   +1 more source

Still the lucky country? [PDF]

Over the past 30 years the gap between the rich and the poor has increased rapidly in a majority of the world’s countries. Oxfam has previously reported that inequality is so severe that the 85 richest people in the world own the same as half of the ...

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Climate Change Agricultural Comparative Advantage and the US Trade Balance

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Current science indicates that warming and elevated atmospheric CO2 will have ambiguous results for crop productivity depending on crop type and geographic location, whereas increased heat stress makes livestock and human labor less productive.
Elizabeth A. Fraysse, Thomas W. Hertel, Roman Keeney   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Shortage and inequalities in the distribution of specialists across community health centres in Uttar Pradesh, 2002–2012

BMC Health Services Research, 2019
Background The onus of providing affordable access to specialist services in rural India primarily lies with publicly funded rural hospitals, also known as community health centres (CHCs).
Aditya Singh
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The 1990s in Latin America: Another Decade of Persistent Inequality, but with Somewhat Lower Poverty [PDF]

This paper processes 76 household surveys from 17 Latin American countries to document changes in poverty and inequality during the 1990s, and performs an analysis of the effect of economic reforms on inequality and poverty by using an expanded data base
Miguel Székely
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A Guideline to Evaluate Sorbent Performance for Atmospheric Water Harvesting

Advanced Energy and Sustainability Research, EarlyView.
Reporting guidelines for atmospheric water harvesting sorbents allow benchmarking between research groups across seven key performance indicators (KPIs). Beyond simple equilibrium values (such as capacity or maximum water uptake), these KPIs validate sensitivity, reversibility, regeneration conditions, chemical stability, kinetics, and water quality ...
Simon Ponton, David Brassard, Andrés Felipe Sánchez Rendón, Seyedemad Alavitabari, Richard Boudreault, Emilie Bédard, Pierre‐Luc Girard‐Lauriault, Jason R. Tavares   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Gender equity in sport from the perspective of European women athletes and sport managers, physical education teachers and sport coaches

Frontiers in Psychology
IntroductionFor years, gender inequality has conditioned women’s participation in sport, exposing them to difficult situations and numerous barriers to face.
Raquel Vaquero-Cristóbal, Adrián Mateo-Orcajada, Yeter Aytül Dağlı Ekmekçi̇, Antonino Pereira, Shirin Amin, Lourdes Meroño, Noelia González-Gálvez, Özgür Mülazımoğlu Ballı, Francisco Mendes, Orlando Mbah, Lucía Abenza-Cano, Alejandro Leiva-Arcas, Yeliz İlgar Doğan, Abel Figueiredo, Cristina María Ponce-Ramírez, Francisco Esparza-Ros, Mario Albaladejo-Saura   +16 more
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Beyond subsistence? The role of rural cooperatives in driving smallholder commercialization in Ethiopia

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
Abstract The transition from subsistence to market‐oriented agriculture holds the potential to boost rural economic progress and improve the well‐being of the rural poor in developing countries. Despite this potential, there is limited understanding of the key drivers for smallholder commercialization. In this study, we utilize comprehensive three‐wave
Abebayehu Girma Geffersa, Md. Monirul Islam   +1 more
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Assessment of the Distributive Impact of National and External Trade Reforms in Brazil [PDF]

This paper quantifies the distributional and poverty effects of national and external trade reform in Brazil using household survey data. We estimate the consumption and labor impact of the Mercosur trade reform following the methodology suggested by ...
Borraz, Fernando, Ferres, Daniel, Rossi, Máximo   +2 more
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