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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
wiley   +1 more source

Sustainability Strategies in the Cocoa‐Chocolate Value Chain: An Analysis Using Stakeholder Theory, Global Value Chain Theory, and Resource Dependence Theory

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The cocoa‐chocolate value chain faces significant environmental and social challenges, driving firms to adopt sustainability strategies ranging from individual practices to third‐party certifications. This study investigates the factors associated with these strategies by analyzing 304 cocoa‐chocolate companies using firm‐level data from the ...
Stella Marschner, Luigi Orsi, Alessandro Olper, Stefanella Stranieri   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Elephant management in Nyaminyami District, Zimbabwe: turning a liability into an asset

Pachyderm, 1993
In Nyaminyami District on the southern shores of Lake Kariba, 20,000 people share Omay Communal Land with some 2,000 elephants and a range of other large wild animals. Elephants are a major cause of conflict between wildlife and people due to the damage
Russell Taylor
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Optimal investment strategy for asset-liability management with a defaultable bond under stochastic default intensity

Systems Science & Control Engineering
This paper studies a continuous-time asset-liability management problem with a defaultable bond under stochastic interest rates and stochastic default intensity.
Jian Pan, Xiangying Zhou
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Large Language Model‐Based Chatbots in Higher Education

Advanced Intelligent Systems, Volume 7, Issue 3, March 2025.
The use of large language models (LLMs) in higher education can facilitate personalized learning experiences, advance asynchronized learning, and support instructors, students, and researchers across diverse fields. The development of regulations and guidelines that address ethical and legal issues is essential to ensure safe and responsible adaptation
Defne Yigci, Merve Eryilmaz, Ail K. Yetisen, Savas Tasoglu, Aydogan Ozcan   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Impact of Secondary Prevention on Mortality in the Building Trades National Medical Screening Program: Effectiveness of Occupational High‐Risk Management

American Journal of Industrial Medicine, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Since 1997 the Building Trades National Medical Screening Program (BTMed) has offered medical exams to construction workers employed in US nuclear weapons facilities. The process consists of two steps: (1) a detailed work history interview; and (2) a medical exam.
Knut Ringen, John M. Dement, Marianne Cloeren, Sammy Almashat, William Grier, Stella Hines, Laura S. Welch, Kim Cranford, Scott Haas, Patricia Quinn, Anna Chen, Miles Fisher   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

Financial optimization modeling on asset liability management with weighted goal programming [PDF]

Decision Science Letters
Asset Liability Management (ALM) can be overseen using financial ratios derived from financial statements. These statements provide a comprehensive picture of a company's status and necessitate analysis to evaluate performance.
Hagni Wijayanti, Sudradjat Supian, Diah Chaerani , Adibah Shuib   +3 more
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Determinants of liquidity in commercial banks: evidence from the Turkish banking sector [PDF]

CES Working Papers, 2022
Liquidity management has an important place in the asset and liability management of banks. The aim of this study is to empirically investigate the intra-bank and macroeconomic factors that affect liquidity in 20 Turkish commercial banks.
Ahmet KARAKAŞ, Melek ACAR
doaj  

Optimal Asset Allocation in Asset Liability Management [PDF]

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2006
We study the impact of regulations on the investment decisions of a defined benefits pension plan. We assess the influence of ex ante (preventive) and ex post (punitive) risk constraints on the gains to dynamic, as opposed to myopic, decision making.
Jules H. van Binsbergen, Michael W. Brandt   +1 more
openaire   +1 more source

Superannuation Reimagined: Moving Beyond the Origins to an Indigenous Focus

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Retirement income systems, such as superannuation, are meant to be non‐discriminatory and consider disadvantage faced by members of society. There are significant differences between the life expectancies of Indigenous and non‐Indigenous peoples. The gap in life expectancies is not considered when determining when Indigenous peoples can retire.
Levon Ellen Blue, Peter Anderson, Mark Brimble   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source