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Farmers' Financial Literacy—Scale Development and Linkages to Accounting Practices and Financial Outcomes

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates the financial literacy (FL) of Swedish farmers, its linkages to farmer characteristics, management accounting practices and farm outcomes by surveying Swedish Farm Accountancy Data Network farmers. Using item response theory, we expand the existing FL measurement specifically to the farming context, assess measurement ...
Uliana Gottlieb, Helena Hansson
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Altruism in death: Attitudes to body and organ donation in Australian students

Anatomical Sciences Education, Volume 16, Issue 1, Page 27-46, January/February 2023., 2023
Abstract Health education, research, and training rely on the altruistic act of body donation for the supply of cadavers. Organ transplantation and research rely on donated organs. Supply of both is limited, with further restrictions in Australia due to requirements for a next‐of‐kin agreement to donation, irrespective of the deceased's pre‐death ...
Rebekah A. Jenkin, Samuel A. Garrett, Kevin A. Keay   +2 more
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Greenhouse warming and anthropogenic aerosols synergistically reduce springtime rainfall in low-latitude East Asia

npj Climate and Atmospheric Science, 2022
Low-latitude East Asia, particularly southern China, has experienced a markedly decreasing springtime rainfall in recent years whereas rainfall trends are weak in mid-latitude East Asia.
Young-Hee Ryu, Seung-Ki Min
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Sustainability Strategies in the Cocoa‐Chocolate Value Chain: An Analysis Using Stakeholder Theory, Global Value Chain Theory, and Resource Dependence Theory

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The cocoa‐chocolate value chain faces significant environmental and social challenges, driving firms to adopt sustainability strategies ranging from individual practices to third‐party certifications. This study investigates the factors associated with these strategies by analyzing 304 cocoa‐chocolate companies using firm‐level data from the ...
Stella Marschner, Luigi Orsi, Alessandro Olper, Stefanella Stranieri   +3 more
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East Asia and the global/transatlantic/Western crisis [PDF]

, 2011
This paper introduces the special collection on East Asia and the Global Crisis. After justifying why a focus on East Asia is appropriate, it draws out the main themes that run through the individual contributions.
Amsden A., Arieff A., Astley M., Barma N., Breslin S., Dore R., Dunaway S., Hastings M., IMF ed, Jacques M., Johnson C., Jopson B., Lucas L., Mahbubani K., Rabinovitch S., Ramo J., Shaun Breslin, Stiglitz J., Vogel E.   +18 more
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Health and immunisation services for the urban poor in selected countries of Asia

Infectious Diseases of Poverty, 2019
Background Asia is a region that is rapidly urbanising. While overall urban health is above rural health standards, there are also pockets of deep health and social disadvantage within urban slum and peri-urban areas that represent increased public ...
John Grundy, Xiaojun Wang, Kunihiko Chris Hirabayashi, Richard Duncan, Dexter Bersonda, Abu Obeida Eltayeb, Godwin Mindra, Robin Nandy   +7 more
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Moisture sources tracking of a cold vortex rainstorm over Northeast China using FLEXPART

Atmospheric Science Letters, Volume 23, Issue 12, December 2022., 2022
A typical Northeast Cold Vortex (NECV) rainstorm on July 25, 2016 occurred under a favorable atmospheric circulation background. Target particles that make significant contributions to this NECV rainstorm mainly came from the Indo‐China Peninsula, South China Sea, Bay of Bengal, and central China on relatively low levels. The largest water vapor uptake
Yuting Yang, Xiaopeng Cui, Qiangli Zou
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Molipteryx fuliginosa (Uhler, 1860) (Heteroptera, Coreidae) in the V. L. Komarov Ussuriysky State Nature Reserve and adjacent territory (Russian Far East)

Амурский зоологический журнал
The article presents a comprehensive overview of the distribution of Molipteryx fuliginosa (Uhler, 1860) (Heteroptera, Coreidae) within the V. L. Komarov Ussuriysky State Nature Reserve and its surrounding areas in the Russian Far East. The findings are
Татьяна Олеговна Маркова, Михаил Вениаминович Маслов, Любовь Александровна Федина   +2 more
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Asian Trade Structures and Trade Potential : An Initial Analysis of South and East Asian Trade [PDF]

A frontier of potential trade is constructed for trade flows from a world trade matrix of trade determinants to compare East Asian trade performance with that of South Asia.
Kaliappa Kalirajan, Peter Drysdale, Shiro Armstrong   +2 more
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Recent decrease in inner‐core rain rate of tropical cyclones over the western North Pacific

Atmospheric Science Letters, Volume 23, Issue 12, December 2022., 2022
The decreasing trend in inner‐core rain rate of tropical cyclones over the western North Pacific. Abstract The tendency in tropical cyclone (TC) rainfall is of great concern due to its remarkable contribution to global precipitation and extreme rainfall events.
Na Wei, Jinjie Song, Yifei Dai, Sulin Jiang, Yihong Duan   +4 more
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