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A Skills Gap Analysis of Farmer Directors of US Farmer Cooperatives

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Boards of directors are vital to firm performance and are an integral part of the decision‐making process of any business. Several studies have been conducted that observe corporate or nonprofit board characteristics, skills, and the board's connection to firm performance.
Jody S. Herchenbach   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Consumer Preferences for Craft Beer: The Interplay of Localness and Advertising Language

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study explores the influence of the language of the label, origin of production, and origin of brewing ingredients on Croatian consumers' preferences and willingness to pay for organic craft beer. Employing an online survey and a choice experiment among 223 Croatian alcohol consumers, we find that while there's a willingness to pay a ...
Marija Cerjak   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Asymptotic Analysis of SPTA-Based Algorithms for No-Wait Flow Shop Scheduling Problem with Release Dates

open access: yesThe Scientific World Journal, 2014
We address the scheduling problem for a no-wait flow shop to optimize total completion time with release dates. With the tool of asymptotic analysis, we prove that the objective values of two SPTA-based algorithms converge to the optimal value for ...
Tao Ren   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Nonparametric confidence bands in deconvolution density estimation [PDF]

open access: yes
Uniform confidence bands for densities f via nonparametric kernel estimates were first constructed by Bickel and Rosenblatt [Ann. Statist. 1, 1071.1095].
Bissantz, Nicolai   +3 more
core  

An Elementary Notion of Gauge Equivalence [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
An elementary notion of gauge equivalence is introduced that does not require any Lagrangian or Hamiltonian apparatus. It is shown that in the special case of theories, such as general relativity, whose symmetries can be identified with spacetime ...
Belot, Gordon
core  

Scale-free estimation of the average state in large-scale systems

open access: yes, 2019
International audienceThis paper provides a computationally tractable necessary and sufficient condition for the existence of an average state observer for large-scale linear time-invariant (LTI) systems.
Deplano, Diego   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Consumer Acceptance of New Sustainable Food Technologies: Upcycling Technology, Biostimulants, and Artificial Intelligence

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Food systems have a significant impact on environmental sustainability, underscoring the need for innovative technologies to support more sustainable agricultural methods. However, the adoption of these technologies hinges on consumer acceptance, making the analysis of consumer perceptions essential.
Greta Castellini, Guendalina Graffigna
wiley   +1 more source

A Nonlinear Generalizations of Dynamic Inequalities on Time Scales

open access: yesRatio Mathematica
Considering the distinctive generalization of the Gronwall-Bellman inequality, in this paper we innovates new dynamical inequalities on time scale. These inequalities will be acted a profound tools for studying qualitative properties such as uniqueness ...
Vikas Sopan Jadhav   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Is There a Market for Organic Milk in Serbia? Insights From Integrated Choice and Latent Variable Model

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Past growth in the global organic market has been concentrated in high‐income countries, while in middle‐income countries such as Serbia the organic market remains nascent and characterized by a sparse assortment of organic products, high retail premia and limited evidence on consumer preferences and their drivers.
Milan Tatic   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Do We Really Need Both BEKK and DCC? A Tale of Two Covariance Models [PDF]

open access: yes
Large and very large portfolios of financial assets are routine for many individuals and organizations. The two most widely used models of conditional covariances and correlations are BEKK and DCC.
Michael McAleer, Massimiliano Caporin
core   +2 more sources

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