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The potential of digital loans to reduce gender disparities in financial inclusion among female health entrepreneurs in Kenya

Scientific Reports
In Sub-Saharan Africa, female entrepreneurs are well represented in healthcare but struggle to access financial services. Digital financing technologies could help close this gap. This study assessed the readiness, perspectives and gender disparities in (
Jacklyne A. Ashubwe, Maureen Ambasa, Joseph Siyumbu, Inès C. van Zuijlen, Nick Mutegi, Sabine Verschuur, Tobias F. Rinke de Wit, Dorien Mulder, Wendy Janssens, Charlotte M. Dieteren   +9 more
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More Than Counting Beans: Adapting USDA Data Collection Practices To Track Marketing Channel Diversification

Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development, 2016
In order to differentiate their products, agricultural producers are expanding and diversifying their use of marketing channels. Increasingly, these channels convey farm-level information to the final purchaser.
Alan R. Hunt, Gary Matteson
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Adult Sex Ratio as a Demographic Feedback Linking Mating Systems, Parental Care, and Evolution

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Breeding systems are some of the most diverse social behavior, and our team is investigation the evolutionary causes of this diversity. This review summarises our research carried out at the University of Bath. We argue that demographic components of wild populations, especially the adult sex ratio, plays a key role driving breeding system variation ...
Tamás Székely, Oscar G. Miranda
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Credit Cycles [PDF]

Journal of Political Economy, 1995
Abstract This chapter is a theoretical study into how credit constraints interact with aggregate economic activity over the business cycle. In particular, for an economy in which credit limits are endogenously determined, we investigate how relatively small, temporary shocks to technology or income distribution might generate large ...
Nobuhiro Kiyotaki, John Moore
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Optimal Grazing Exclusion Duration to Enhance Soil Carbon Sequestration in Degraded Grasslands

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Across China, grazing exclusion reaches the national mean soil organic carbon recovery benchmark sooner in high‐MAP regions (> 500 mm), but recovery is much slower where MAP < 300 mm. Scaling this strategy to 70% of China's degraded grasslands would sequester about 1.52 Pg of soil carbon over 10 years—roughly 17% of annual global fossil‐fuel emissions.
Bin Zhang, Chongzhi Sun, Dongmei Xue, Paul Christiaan Struik, Tongrui Zhang, Jiayue Liu, Tingting Xing, Ziyang Liu, Shiming Tang, Ke Jin   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Rare Presentation of Pulmonary Alveolar Proteinosis Causing Acute Respiratory Failure

Canadian Respiratory Journal, 2016
Pulmonary alveolar proteinosis (PAP) is a rare condition characterized by dysfunctional alveolar macrophages, which ineffectively clear surfactant and typically cause mild hypoxemia.
Ryan R. Kroll, Sameer Kumar, Ronald F. Grossman, Charles Price, John R. Srigley   +4 more
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Scalable Electrochemical Concrete Fabrication and Closed‐Loop Recycling

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
The electrochemical‐driven recycling strategy establishes a reversible concrete material flow by extracting Ca, Si, Al, and Fe from concrete waste and regenerating functional feedstocks. These reversed products are reassembled into new concrete, which re‐enters service and ultimately returns to waste, enabling a closed‐loop, waste‐origin, and low ...
Hanxiong Lyu, Zhenlin Li, Yang Liu, Lu Zhu, Lucen Hao, Mingxin Shi, Shipeng Zhang, Chi Sun Poon   +7 more
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Pengaruh Biaya Promosi Terhadap Peningkatan Jumlah Peserta Asuransi: Studi Di AJB Bumiputera 1912 Divisi Syariah

Al-Iqtishad: Jurnal Ilmu Ekonomi Syariah, 2014
The Influence of Promotion Cost to The Increasing of Number Participants: Study at AJB Bumiputera 1912 Shariah Division. The purpose of this study is to analyze the effect of promotion costs to increase in the number of insurance participants.
Salamudin Salamudin
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Enabling Long Term, Shelf‐Stable Perovskite Solar Cells: Alumina Barriers to Protect Perovskite Devices from Moisture and Oxygen

Advanced Energy Materials, EarlyView.
This study reports a packaging strategy for perovskite photovoltaic devices using atomic layer deposition (ALD) of aluminum oxide. Through optimization of deposition temperature and oxidant chemistry, researchers develop a 50 nm barrier layer with superior water vapor (WVTR) and oxygen transmission rates (OTR).
Melissa A. Davis, Kelly Schutt, Duong Nguyen Minh, Xinwen Zhang, Chenchao Xie, Ross A. Kerner, Tianran Liu, Matthew O. Reese, Laura T. Schelhas, Michael D. Kempe, Axel F. Palmstrom, Joseph M. Luther   +11 more
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Designing Cost‐Effective Carbon Payments to Induce Cellulosic Feedstock Production for Sustainable Aviation Fuel

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Perennial bioenergy crops, such as miscanthus and switchgrass, and crop residues have the potential to scale up sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) production and mitigate carbon emissions. However, high establishment costs, delayed returns, and risk–return profiles that diverge from those of conventional crops can hinder incentives to adopt ...
Fahd Majeed, Madhu Khanna, Ruiqing Miao
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