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LIQUIDITY AND PRODUCTIVITY IN RUSSIAN AGRICULTURE: FARM-DATA EVIDENCE [PDF]

The Russian agricultural sector has experienced many problems since the beginning of the 1990s that resulted in a fall in farm output. Employing a production function approach and, unlike other studies, farm-level data on more than 20,000 Russian large ...
Bezlepkina, Irina V., Oude Lansink, Alfons G.J.M.   +1 more
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Clarifying Public Policy for Stronger Public Administration in Development

Public Administration and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Public policy is ubiquitous, yet its meaning is often unclear. This ambiguity is not just conceptual. Because policy work is a large part of what public administrations do, how we define policy shapes how we structure and organize our administrative mechanisms.
Matt Andrews
wiley   +1 more source

The place bonding potential of nature‐based citizen science with refugee children and youth

People and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Nature‐based citizen science often involves close interaction with places. In addition to providing benefits, such as learning opportunities and contact with nature, it can facilitate and shape bonds between people and places. Research exploring the place bonding potential of such projects is still in its infancy. This paper addresses this gap
Ekaterina Egorova
wiley   +1 more source

Production Risk and Technical Inefficiency in Russian Agriculture [PDF]

This paper aims to contribute to a better understanding of possible causes of considerable production variability that characterised Russian agriculture during the last decade.
Bokusheva, Raushan, Hockmann, Heinrich
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Multifaceted obscurity of Thismia abei (Thismiaceae): A fairy lantern with the protologue long disregarded in practice

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Tiny, leafless fairy lanterns are easily overlooked on the forest floor. Thismia abei, endemic to Japan, persists in small, unstable populations and is listed nationally as Critically Endangered. Our recent work has revealed another, less obvious form of obscurity.
Kenji Suetsugu, Alexander N. Sennikov, Maxim S. Nuraliev   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Iconic Boom in Modern Russian Art [PDF]

This paper investigates the prices and the returns in the market for modern Russian art, a prime example of an ‘emerging art market’, over the last four decades. After applying a hedonic regression model on an extensive dataset containing 52,154 sales by
Spaenjers, C., Renneboog, L.D.R.
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Enhance food plant diversity conservation and use through greater coordination between genebanks and botanic gardens

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Food plants are vital to human and planetary health, but their diversity is threatened, making food security, nutrition, and environmental goals more difficult to achieve. Food plant diversity conservation, research, and education can be enhanced through collaboration between sectors, including genebanks and botanic gardens, which possess complementary
Colin K. Khoury, Sarah Gora, Hannes Dempewolf, Mauricio Diazgranados, Alex C. McAlvay, Vania Azevedo, Sam Brockington, Ángela Cano, Daniel Carver, Carly Cowell, Peter Crane, Cary Fowler, Peter Giovannini, Luigi Guarino, Robbie Hart, Geoff Hawtin, Sarada Krishnan, Charlotte Lusty, Patricia Malcolm, Nan McCarry, Abby Meyer, Allison Miller, Ray Mims, Tara Moreau, Arshiya Noorani, Susan K. Pell, Juan Lucas Restrepo, Erin C. Riordan, Stefan Schmitz, Paul Smith, Charles Spillane, Alvaro Toledo, Raakel Toppila, Maarten van Zonneveld, Emily Warschefsky, Peter Wenzl   +35 more
wiley   +1 more source

Corporate governance and control in Russian banks [PDF]

The Working Paper examines peculiarities of the Russian model of corporate governance and control in the banking sector. The study relies upon theoretical as well as applied research of corporate governance in Russian commercial banks featuring different
Vernikov, Andrei
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Strong differentiation between source and ex situ populations of rare plant species revealed by next‐generation sequencing

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Biodiversity is being lost rapidly worldwide due to factors such as climate change and habitat loss. To help safeguard plant populations, conservation strategies include seed banks and conservation cultures. However, it remains unclear how cultivation affects genetic variation compared with wild populations.
Maximilian Alexander Steurer, Ellen Gradl, Lena Winkler, Christoph Reisch   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Cardiorehabilitation organization in Russia. The results of the pilot project "Development of the system of rehabilitation of patients with cardiovascular diseases in medical institutions of the Russian Federation"

КардиоСоматика, 2016
Goal. The pilot project to organize or conduct performance improvement of existing structural units in specific hospitals (LU) Russia to provide rehabilitative care for patients with cardiovascular diseases in three stages under the current "Procedure ...
M. G Bubnova, D. M Aronov, S. A Boytsov, G. E Ivanova, A. G Andreev, O. L Barbarash, V. V Belova, V. N Belov, B. V Borisov, E. V Ivanov, I. M Karamova, A. V Karpukhin, V. B Krasnitskiy, E. S Kylbanova, P. A Lebedev, E. A Lisnyak, N. P Lyamina, T. N Mizurova, O. F Misyura, I. E Mishina, O. V Mishchenko, S. Yu Nikulina, N. I Ostroushko, S. A Pomeshkina, A. S Sidorov, A. A Sprikut, I. S Sukhinina, A. G Tkacheva, S. A Ustyugov, G. A Chumakova   +29 more
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