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The Body Out of Place: Reading Percival Everett through Sara Ahmed [PDF]

Intersections, 2016
Ahmed’s notion of comfort and discomfort between bodies and spaces helps to expand upon the purposes of movement and geography in Percival Everett’s Erasure.
Zach Linge
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Does Contract Farming Improve Diet Quality? The Case of Senegalese Smallholders

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The institution of contract farming has gained prominence in most developing countries owing to its numerous benefits. While several studies have already highlighted the welfare benefits of contract farming, very few have investigated the effects on diet quality, despite poor quality diets being a serious challenge in most parts of the ...
Francis E. Ndip, Takeshi Sakurai
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Farmers' Participation in Messenger‐Based Social Groups And Its Effects on Performance in Irrigated Areas of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The penetration of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in farming communities is increasing the use of smartphone‐based instant messaging apps. Despite this, the reasons behind participation and the impact on farm productivity in developing countries remain unexplored.
Zafar Kurbanov, Abdusame Tadjiev, Nodir Djanibekov, Ajit Govind, Akmal Akramkhanov   +4 more
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Determinants of Knowledge and Usage of Generative Artificial Intelligence in Agricultural Extension: Evidence From Tennessee Extension Personnel

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines the determinants of generative AI (GenAI) knowledge and usage among agricultural extension professionals. Drawing on survey data from agricultural extension personnel in Tennessee, we employ regression analyses and latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA) for topic modeling of open‐ended responses to study the knowledge and usage ...
Abdelaziz Lawani, Jason de Koff, James Muriuki, Anna‐Liisa Ihuhwa   +3 more
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Effects of novel muscarinic M3 receptor ligand C1213 in pulmonary arterial hypertension models. [PDF]

, 2016
Pulmonary hypertension (PH) is a complex disease comprising a pathologic remodeling and thickening of the pulmonary vessels causing an after load on the right heart ventricle that can result in ventricular failure. Triggered by oxidative stress, episodes
Ahmed, Mohamed, Al-Abed, Yousef, Coleman, Thomas, Lakshminrusimha, Satyanarayana, Patel, Hardik, VanPatten, Sonya   +5 more
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The Power of Unity: Collective Action and Smallholder Agricultural Performance in West Africa

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We analyze the impact of collective action through farmer‐based organizations (FBOs) on smallholders' farm performance and income inequality in Ghana, Benin, The Gambia, and Mali. We find that FBO membership increases cereal yield in Ghana and The Gambia, legume yield in Mali, ruminant numbers in Benin and The Gambia, and total farm income in ...
Emmanuel Donkor, Bright Owusu Asante, David Boansi, Victor Owusu   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Studi Koefisien Drag Aerodinamika pada Model Ahmed Body Terbalik Berbasis Metode Numerik

Jurnal Teknik Mesin, 2018
transportation is one segment that produced greenhouse gasses. Transportation produced 14% emission in the world and will continuously arise. Because of that, so many effort made to reduce the rises. One of them is to reduce fuel consumption.
Marga Yogatama, Ramon Trisno
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Deficits in trabecular bone microarchitecture in young women with Type 1 diabetes mellitus [PDF]

, 2015
Context: The pathophysiological mechanism of increased fractures in young adults with Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus (T1DM) is unclear. Objective: Case:control study of trabecular bone microarchitecture and vertebral marrow adiposity in young women with ...
Al-Daghri, Almeida, Amiel, Baroncelli, Baxter, Benjamin, Bereket, Botolin, Bredella, Bredella, Brismar, Chamberlain, Dai, Dhaliwal, Donaldson, Dunger, Fazeli, Fazeli, Forsén, Genant, Gevers, Giustina, Goettsch, Govan, Guler, Hothersall, Issever, Justesen, Kawai, Li, Martin, McComb, Menagh, Miller, Naressi, Neumann, Nicodemus, Patsch, Qvist, Rosen, Santos, Schellinger, Shen, Slade, Svoren, Vanhamme, Vestergaard, Wagegg, Wędrychowicz, Zemel   +49 more
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Consumers' Willingness to Pay a Premium for Climate‐Friendly Food Production: The Role of Production Method Information and Social Norms

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines whether information about production methods and social norms can increase consumers' willingness to pay (WTP) a price premium for food produced using climate‐friendly farming methods. A randomized survey experiment was conducted with 1568 respondents across Denmark, Lithuania, and Spain, who were assigned to one of four ...
Kassa Tarekegn Erekalo, Tove Christensen, Sigrid Denver, Marilena Gemtou, Spyros Fountas, Søren Marcus Pedersen   +5 more
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Analisis Aerodinamika Pada Body Car Dengan Menggunakan Software Berbasis Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) [PDF]

Ahmed Body car adalah suatu jenis mobil yang umum digunakan dalam percobaan simulasi dengan 3 dimensi dan bentuk badan mobil memanjang dan body belakang mobil berbentuk c embung dengan sudut 30º.
Darussalam, Darussalam, Yamin, Muh.
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