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Testing the Marketing Performance of German Wheat Farmers

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper analyses the marketing performance of wheat farmers in Germany. Wheat sales data from 465 individual farms over a 12‐year period are used to test against different market benchmarks. Market benchmarks are constructed by simulating passive trading agents using regional wheat prices.
Franziska Potts, Jens‐Peter Loy
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Vietnamese Civic Organisations: Supporters of or Obstacles to Further Democratisation? Results from an Empirical Survey

Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs, 2016
In political science and in development cooperation, civic organisations (COs) under authoritarian rule are usually seen as supporters of processes that move towards democratisation. However, these organisations are sometimes criticised for their support
Jörg Wischermann, The Cuong BUI, Thi Viet Phuong DANG   +2 more
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Diagnostic Accuracy of Size‐Based Preoperative CT Assessment for Predicting Lymph Node Metastasis in Colon Cancer: A Systematic Review and Meta‐Analysis

Annals of Gastroenterological Surgery, EarlyView.
Preoperative CT based on lymph node size shows moderate accuracy for detecting nodal metastasis in colon cancer. In this meta‐analysis of 29 studies (5,634 patients), pooled sensitivity and specificity were 0.69 and 0.66. Size‐based CT alone has limited value for clinical decision‐making.
Yuji Takayama, Tomoya Shimizu, Jun Watanabe, Shimpei Ogawa, Yukihide Kanemitsu   +4 more
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Child-raising, Childbirth and Abortion In Extremis: Women’s Stories of Caring for and Losing Children during the Violence of 1965–1966 in Indonesia

Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs, 2013
In this paper I examine women survivors’ stories about childbirth and child-raising during the period of mass violence following Indonesia’s 1965 coup, as well as some accounts of abortion during detention.
Annie Pohlman
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One‐Year Healthcare Utilization and Costs After Emergency Department Encounters for Uncomplicated Appendicitis: A Statewide Observational Study

Annals of Gastroenterological Surgery, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective Non‐operative management with antibiotics has emerged as an alternative to appendectomy for uncomplicated appendicitis. This study compared one‐year healthcare costs and utilization outcomes after operative versus non‐operative management of uncomplicated appendicitis using statewide administrative data.
Andrew C. Meltzer, Michael Makutonin, Taylor Gorak, Aditya Loganathan, Jack A. Meltzer, Avi Dor   +5 more
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Measuring Institutional Trust: Evidence from Guyana

Journal of Politics in Latin America, 2015
Institutional trust is often measured by several items that are analyzed individually or as sum-scores. However, it is difficult to summarize the results of individual-items analyses, whereas sum-scores may be meaningless if the dimensions that the items
Troy Devon Thomas, Koen Abts, Koenraad Stroeken, Patrick Vander Weyden   +3 more
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Towards Advanced Intelligent and Perceptive Soft Grippers

Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
Implementing soft yet strong and intelligent soft grippers request innovative and creative solutions in designing soft bodies and seamlessly integrating actuated systems with hierarchical sensing. This review systematically analyses soft grippers with a deep understanding of core components, from fundamental design principles to actuation and sensing ...
Haneul Kim, Hayeon Shin, Seik Park, Changbeom Shim, Seonggun Joe   +4 more
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Women’s Political Participation in Indonesia: Decentralisation, Money Politics and Collective Memory in Bali

Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs, 2012
This article contends that cultural, political and historical factors create a local political environment where de facto discrimination against women is the norm.
Elizabeth Rhoads
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A Language‐Guided Multimodal Foundation Model for Zero‐Shot and Multi‐Task Brain Signal Analysis

Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
METIS aligns brain signals with natural‐language instructions to enable zero‐shot and multi‐task brain signal analysis. Pretrained on over 70 000 h of EEG and iEEG recordings, it generalizes across sleep stage classification, epilepsy detection, and neurological disorder diagnosis, providing a scalable foundation model for clinically meaningful brain ...
Mingzhi Chen, Yiyu Gui, Guibo Luo, Yuchao Yang   +3 more
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China and the Changing Myanmar

Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs, 2012
The author argues that the democratic reform in Myanmar is rooted in profound internal and external factors. Since the beginning of the reform, the changes in Myanmar have taken tolls in a series of China’s existing interests inside the country ...
Yun SUN
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