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The economic ecology of small businesses in Oxfordshire
, 2007 Report by the Oxfordshire Economic Observatory (OEO) for the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB), Oxfordshire ...
Lawton Smith, Helen +4 more
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"Mind the gap": graduate recruitment in small businesses [PDF]
, 2003 The purpose of the study was to analyse the perceptions that small business owner-managers held of graduates and graduate skills. The research focused on the tourism, hospitality and leisure sectors and used two methods, focus groups and a survey of ...
Pittaway, L A, Thedham, J R
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Rare‐Earth Yttrium Doping Advances High‐Performance AgSbTe2 Thermoelectrics
Advanced Energy Materials, EarlyView.Y‐doped AgSbTe2 achieves band and microstructure co‐optimization, with coherent Y‐Ag2Te interfaces enhancing phonon scattering and reducing lattice thermal conductivity to 0.26 W m−1 K−1. Combined with valence‐band broadening and increased carrier concentration, this yields ZT ≈ 2 at 623 K, average ZT = 1.5, and 7.3 % conversion efficiency of a single ...
Lan Li +11 more
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Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In recent decades, agriculture has become increasingly concentrated through horizontal mergers and acquisitions via corporate entities, and policy makers are concerned this will be exacerbated by the aging population of farm operators. To reduce market concentration in agriculture, many states have enacted policies to entice new prospective ...
Justin M. Ross +2 more
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Nature, 1970 Think A Biography of the Watsons and IBM. By William Rodgers. Pp. 320 + 10 plates. (Weidenfeld and Nicolson: London, January 1970.) 50s.
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Are small businesses concerned about credit? [PDF]
In a recent survey of small businesses, concerns over credit fell low on a long list of pressing problems. Why? This article examines how the recent economic environment and changes in the credit industry have affected small businesses owners' anxiety ...
Mamie Marcuss
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Measuring Nutrition Security Using the Consumer Food Data System Datasets
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Nutrition security is an emerging concept lacking a consensus definition, conceptualization, or standardized measure. This perspectives manuscript synthesizes findings from two previously published analyses to assess the feasibility of using available measures of key dimensions of nutrition security from two Consumer Food Data System (CFDS ...
Vibha Bhargava +2 more
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, 2008 This report to the Federation of Small Businesses is the first stage of research into the relationship between small business and the planning system in Wales.
Thomas, Alan Huw +2 more
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, 2022 As the COVID-19 pandemic took hold in early 2020, governments across the UK were forced to react. They were faced with the considerable challenge of striking a balance between protecting the health of the UK population while mitigating the negative ...
Down, Simon, +8 more
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Why Didn't I Get a Payout? Understanding Farmer Choices, Index Insurance, and Basis Risk
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Index insurance, while heralded as a potential solution to alleviate poverty and food insecurity among agricultural households, has its own set of challenges, notably basis risk. Basis risk is the discrepancy between the insurance payout and losses incurred, posing a significant deterrent to the adoption of index insurance.
S. Lucille Blakeley +4 more
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