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Farm‐level agricultural productivity and adaptation to extreme heat
American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.Abstract Harnessing farm‐level fluctuations in weather over time, we investigate the impact of extreme heat on farm‐level agricultural productivity and adaptation strategies in Nigeria. We employ data from the Nigeria Living Standards Measurement Study‐Integrated Surveys on Agriculture (LSMS‐ISA) from the years 2010, 2012, and 2015.
Joaquin Mayorga +2 more
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Senate Unpassed Legislation 1855, Docket 18373, SC1/series 231, Petition of Theodore Cobb
, 2017 Digital Archive Of Massachusetts Anti-Slavery
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Productivity dispersion and persistence in European agriculture
American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.Abstract Improving and maintaining agricultural productivity, which is pivotal to deliver private and public goods, is challenged by increasingly uncertain market and environmental conditions. Understanding differences in productivity among farms and its persistence over time helps assess the vulnerability of agricultural production to these external ...
Stefan Wimmer, Robert Finger
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Market regulation and productivity: The case of the Canadian Wheat Board
American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.Abstract Changes to regulatory environments influence firm‐level incentives, which can move the productivity frontier or reposition firms within an existing frontier. Estimating causal effects of policy changes requires a credible counterfactual for productivity in the absence of policy change.
Ryan Cardwell, Pascal L. Ghazalian
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Description of Strongylus Axei (Cobb.), preceded by Remarks on its Affinities.
, 1886 T. Spencer Cobbold
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Australian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.Australian public debates about race have featured intense contests about free speech and identity, including about the federal Racial Discrimination Act (RDA). While these developments may be understood as reflecting the contemporary ascendency of “culture war” politics, they may in fact follow a familiar pattern of political contestation around ...
Tim Soutphommasane +4 more
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Collaboration and Leadership in Teaching Statistics in Higher Education
Australian &New Zealand Journal of Statistics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Considerations of collaboration and leadership are relevant in all disciplines but are of particular significance in the statistical and data sciences. No matter how theoretical or practical, all statistical endeavours have roots or motivations in real problems linked with other disciplines and, in turn, often drive endeavours in these ...
H. MacGillivray
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Teaching of Confidence Intervals in Context
Australian &New Zealand Journal of Statistics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We present a taxonomy of conceptual steps in learning about confidence intervals (CIs), and outline pedagogical approaches used in teaching the topic, as a guide for tertiary‐level educators. We describe a number of documented misconceptions of CIs relating to the interpretation of the confidence coefficient and of the interval itself ...
Sue Finch, Ian R. Gordon
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Asia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article showcases the application of Pacific methodologies in developing Loto Malie (contented heart), a culturally grounded clinical intervention focused on Pacific youth wellbeing in Aotearoa, New Zealand. Unlike conventional Western approaches to mental health, Loto Malie incorporates faith and culture into a therapeutic framework. The
Taulaga Auva'a‐Alatimu +2 more
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Some Characterizations of the Cobb-Douglas and CES Production Functions in Microeconomics [PDF]
, 2013 Xiaoshu Wang, Yu Fu
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