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Advanced Science, EarlyView.Correcting the apparent priming effect resolves systematic biases in Asian rice fertilizer nitrogen accounting. Net soil retention drops below 7%, while 48% of fertilizer escapes, inflicting US$98.53 billion in annual reactive‐nitrogen damages. High‐resolution mapping uncovers N‐risk archetypes across 42% of the rice area, delivering a spatially ...
Xiuyun Liu +5 more
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Estimating recent fertility from data on own children : West Malaysia, 1958-67 [PDF]
, 1970 For more about the East-West Center, see http://www.eastwestcenter.org/Vital registration, hence knowledge of fertility, remains notoriously deficient in many nations of the world.
East-West Population Institute +1 more
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Advanced Science, EarlyView.Conventional single‐gradient freeze‐casting typically produces unidirectional porous architectures with limited transverse connectivity. The Sequential Hybridization by Infiltration and Freeze‐casting Technique (SHIFT) addresses this constraint by integrating secondary aligned structures within a preformed primary scaffold.
Kiho Sung, Sungchul Shin
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Unrealistic optimism: east and west?
Frontiers in Psychology, 2013 Following Weinstein’s pioneering work (1980) many studies established that people have an optimistic bias concerning future life events. At first, the bulk of research was conducted using populations in North America and Northern Europe, the optimistic ...
Mary Sissons Joshi, Wakefield eCarter
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Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Amid rising food and fertilizer prices, understanding farmers' policy preferences is critical for effective crisis response. We use best‐worst scaling experiment to assess Kenyan mobile‐owning crop farmers' preferences for government support under high and normal price scenarios.
Mywish K. Maredia +4 more
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East Meets West: The Perspective in Roman Mosaics
Journal of Mosaic Research, 2014 The introduction of “perspective” or “third dimension” in the realization of Roman mosaic floors was, from the beginning, subject to a different interpretation in different regions of the Roman Empire.As part of the RoGeMoPorTur project (East meets West.
Maria de Jesus Duran Kremer
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PESTICIDES - A PROBLEM IN ROMANIA'S AGRICULTURE? [PDF]
Scientific Papers Series : Management, Economic Engineering in Agriculture and Rural Development, 2021 The paper analyzed the use of pesticides in Romania in the period 2007-2020, based on the official statistical data by type of pesticide, at the national and territorial level, and using fixed and structural indices, concentration indices and time and ...
Agatha POPESCU +4 more
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Crop Insurance Design and On‐Farm Risk Adaptation
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The United States spends billions annually on crop insurance premium subsidies, yet the prevailing distance‐based guarantee design unintentionally rewards risk‐taking by linking subsidies to yield variability. We consider a simple redesign: define guarantees in terms of probability so that coverage reflects a consistent likelihood of indemnity.
Gerald Van Tassell, Alan P. Ker
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Humanities & Social Sciences CommunicationsThe strong migration of former East German residents to the western part of Germany opens a unique way to study the impact of migration modifying gender-related attitudes towards division of labor.
Lisa Kriechel +3 more
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The Arab East in the Era of Globalization [PDF]
Ovidius University Annals: Economic Sciences Series, 2019 Although analyzes centered on the subject of globalization have long been a subject, the topic still has a growing interest. The aim of this paper is to analyze the impact of globalization on the Arab East, an area treated marginally in the literature ...
Raluca Ioana Oprea
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