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Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Rice is the main staple food for more than half of the world's population and the income from rice is an essential source for livelihoods of millions of households. We examine whether direct seed in rice production is an adaptation of rice farmers to rainfall changes and farm labor scarcity.
Manh Hung Do
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Location privacy protection in continuous LBSs: enhancing anonymity via fake queries
Journal of King Saud University: Computer and Information SciencesThe dummy-based method is widely used to protect the user’s location privacy in location-based services (LBS) due to its ability to obtain precise query results without the need for a third party.
Hai Liu, Shengqing Hu, NaNa Zhou
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Tradeoffs and challenges in maintaining location privacy in location-based services
, 2020 Protecting location privacy in digital services could not be more important. This research aims to protect the location of people who suffer from opioid overdose while seeking help from public, emergency services and professional responders with Nalox ...
Alzahrani, Thuraya
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Temperature Sensitivity and Adaptation of Cereal Yields: Empirical Evidence From Italy
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper investigates the evolving temperature sensitivity and climate adaptation of cereal yields in Italy from 1952 to 2023, using province‐level data for maize, common wheat, and durum wheat. Employing panel data econometric methods, we estimate yield responses to heat exposure, changes in sensitivity over time, and adaptation to climate ...
Paolo Nota +2 more
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U.S. Greenfield Investments and M&A location: impact of American continental integration and Insider vs. Outsider position [PDF]
This study examines the effects of economic integration on Greenfield Investments and cross-border Acquisitions locations. We use panel data on U.S. FDI in NAFTA and MERCOSUR members from 1989 to 1998.
Nicole Madariaga, Bertrand, Olivier
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Ban Glyphosate—Does It Affect the Swedish Farmers' Willingness to Grow Cover Crops?
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The cultivation of cover crops is one of the new Eco‐scheme practices introduced in Sweden. This study examines how the design of policy attributes of these schemes influences farmers' willingness to grow cover crops on arable land, with particular focus on the potential impact of a glyphosate ban.
Vivian Wei Huang +2 more
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KLPPS: A k-Anonymous Location Privacy Protection Scheme via Dummies and Stackelberg Game
, 2021 Protecting location privacy has become an irreversible trend; some problems also come such as system structures adopted by location privacy protection schemes suffer from single point of failure or the mobile device performance bottlenecks, and these ...
Dongdong Yang (3164139) +4 more
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Efficient scheme for user's trajectory privacy
Tongxin xuebao, 2015 As one of the most important information in location-based services (LBS),the trajectory privacy for smart devices users has gained increasingly popularity over recent years.To address this problem,(k−1) dummy trajectories to achieve trajectory k ...
Feng-hua LI +5 more
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Source Anonymity against Global Adversary in WSNs Using Dummy Packet Injections: A Survey
, 2018 Source anonymity in wireless sensor networks (WSNs) becomes a real concern in several applications such as tracking and monitoring. A global adversary that has sophisticated resources, high computation and full view of the network is an obvious threat to
Bushnag, Anas +5 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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