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Combining diverse data sources for CEDSS, an agent-based model of domestic energy demand [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
CEDSS (Community Energy Demand Social Simulator) is an empirical agent-based model designed and built as part of a multi-method social science project investigating the determinants of domestic energy demand.
Craig, Tony   +3 more
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Access to Finance and Innovation in the Canadian Food Processing

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Innovation is a presumed channel through which finance affects productivity, yet there is limited research testing the relationship between finance and innovation in the food manufacturing sector. The purpose of the paper is to explore the determinants (e.g., financing, R&D, firm size, expenditure on innovation) of the adoption of innovation ...
Getu Hailu, Deepananda Herath
wiley   +1 more source

Engaging families, engaging fathers: Domestic abuse and safeguarding children [PDF]

open access: yes
Safeguarding children affected by domestic abuse is a key priority, but there are practice challenges in achieving this. The MAZE project based at WomenCentre in Calderdale is an innovative specialist domestic abuse project that undertakes intensive work
Everson, Angela, Peckover, Sue
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Charting the Path to Increased Oil Palm Output in Ghana Beyond Area Expansion: Technology or Managerial Capacity — Which Leads the Way?

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study sets out to investigate the prospects for raising oil palm output in sub‐Saharan Africa, particularly Ghana, without further expansion of cropland. Given global concerns about oil palm's role in deforestation and land use change, the focus is on enhancing productivity on existing farmlands.
Jacob Asravor   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

La délégation de la garde de l’enfant à l’épreuve de représentations socialement situées du travail parental

open access: yesCahiers de la Recherche sur l'Education et les Savoirs
This article seeks to understand the social cleavages in the domain of childcare delegation by studying variations between families in the practices of taking on parental work.
Sebastián Pizarro Erazo
doaj   +1 more source

Domestic Capital Market Reform and Access to Global Finance: Making Markets Work [PDF]

open access: yes
Contrary to the predictions of standard economic theory, capital market liberalization has been a mixed blessing for many countries. Liberalization of debt inflows exposes economies to the risk of crises stemming from sudden changes in investor sentiment.
Peter Blair Henry   +1 more
core  

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

Digital Intermediation and Precarity: Experiences of Domestic Workers in Chile’s Platform Labor Economy

open access: yesPlatforms
This article explores the implications of digital labor intermediation platforms in paid domestic work (PDW) in Chile, a sector historically marked by informality and vulnerability.
Rosa Villarroel-Valdés   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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