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Impact of climate change on agricultural insurance

open access: yesRevista Activos
Climate change poses significant challenges to agricultural systems, particularly in vulnerable regions like Nigeria, where farming serves as a primary livelihood and economic driver.
Noah Gbenga Alli
doaj   +1 more source

Flogging a dead horse: Attempts by van der Berg et al to measure changes in poverty and inequality [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper seeks an explanation for the large differences in the extent and severity of poverty published respectively in van der Berg et al (2005: 2007a) and Meth (2006b). Headcounts in 2004 suggested by van der Berg et al (2007a) exceed by five million,
Charles Meth
core   +1 more source

Drivers of Farmers' Contract Compliance Behavior: Evidence From a Case Study of Dangote Tomato Processing Plant in Northern Nigeria

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Contract farming is a viable strategy agribusinesses rely on to strengthen coordination across actors in the value chain. However, low contract compliance remains a significant setback to agribusinesses' contract performance in low‐ and middle‐income country context.
Umar Shehu Umar   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Vendor Types, Attendance, Experience and Sales 2019–2021: Evidence From Five Rural Oregon Farmers Markets

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Farmers markets provide a direct‐to‐consumer marketing path for farmers and small businesses, facilitating customer discovery and product refinement. This paper explores farmers markets as a business incubator, with a focus on beginning vendors and resilience to a shock, namely, COVID‐19 market restrictions.
Mallory L. Rahe   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Farmers’ Protests in Germany: Media Coverage and Types of Bias

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The German farmers’ protests of 2024 sparked widespread media coverage and public debate. Yet, media coverage was not always positive, reflecting the media's attention‐seeking and selective focus. Occurrences of farmers blocking media outlets reflected distrust in how their concerns were portrayed.
Felix Schlichte, Doris Läpple
wiley   +1 more source

An Empirical Analysis of the Medical Informed Consent Doctrine: Search for a Standard of Disclosure [PDF]

open access: yes, 1991
Informed consent and its conceptual equivalents, e.g., right-to-know, are increasingly important. The author discusses the development of the informed consent doctrine in tort cases and attempts to evaluate the consistency of its application.
Merz, Jon F.
core   +1 more source

Effect of Broad‐Spectrum Antibiotic Prophylaxis on Post‐Pancreatoduodenectomy Infectious Complications: Nationwide Inpatient Database Study in Japan

open access: yesAnnals of Gastroenterological Surgery, EarlyView.
Using a nationwide Japanese inpatient database, we evaluated whether broad‐spectrum antibiotic prophylaxis improves postoperative outcomes after pancreatoduodenectomy compared with narrow‐spectrum antibiotics. In propensity score–weighted analyses of 45 099 patients, broad‐spectrum prophylaxis was associated with significantly lower rates of intra ...
Hiroki Kitagawa   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Estimasi Premi Bruto Asuransi Kendaraan Bermotor Menggunakan Metode Panjer Recursion dan Fast Fourier Transform

open access: yesJambura Journal of Mathematics
Insurance is an agreement between two parties, namely the insurance company as the insurer and the customer as the insured. In practice, an insurance product can have hundreds or even thousands of policy contracts.
Sintya Putri Nugrahainy, Azizah Azizah
doaj   +1 more source

Hidden in Plain Sight: Achieving More Just Results in Hostile Work Environment Sexual Harassment Cases by Re-Examining Supreme Court Precedent [PDF]

open access: yes, 1997
Control of a hydraulic crane is considered. Due to the oscillatory character of the system smooth the operation of the crane is a demanding task. In order to improve the handling properties feedback control of the crane is studied.
Keller, Elisabeth A., Tracy, Judith B.
core   +1 more source

Experimental validation of the RESPONSE framework against cyberattacks on cyber‐physical process systems

open access: yesAIChE Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This work experimentally validates the RESPONSE (Resilient Process cONtrol SystEm) framework as a solution for maintaining safe, continuous operation of cyber‐physical process systems under cyberattacks. RESPONSE implements a dual‐loop architecture that runs a networked online controller in parallel with a hard‐isolated offline controller ...
Luyang Liu   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

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