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Hospitalization Due to Fire-Induced Pollution in the Brazilian Legal Amazon from 2005 to 2018

open access: yesRemote Sensing, 2021
Fire is widely used in the Amazon as a ubiquitous driver of land management and land cover change. Regardless of their purpose, fires release a considerable amount of pollutants into the atmosphere, with severe consequences for human health.
Wesley Augusto Campanharo   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Who is willing to pay a premium for leafy greens produced by indoor agriculture? A comparative choice experiment with US consumers

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
Abstract Indoor agriculture (IA) presents a pathway to producing leafy greens more sustainably by strictly controlling the growing environment, increasing the efficiency of water and land resources use, reducing pesticide application, and enhancing quality characteristics.
Joseph Seong   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Network Model Approach to International Aid

open access: yesEntropy, 2023
Decisions made by international aid donors regarding the allocation of their aid budgets to recipients can be mathematically modelled using network theory.
Joe Scattergood, Steven Bishop
doaj   +1 more source

The effects of agricultural machinery services and land fragmentation on farmers' straw returning behavior

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
Abstract Straw returning is important for rural ecological management and sustainable agricultural development. Using farm survey data for Anhui Province, China, in 2020, we applied the double‐hurdle model to investigate the impact of agricultural machinery services and land fragmentation on farmers' straw‐returning behavior, and to explore the ...
Xin Wang, Yanping Song, Wei Huang
wiley   +1 more source

Mathematical Analysis and Modeling of the Factors That Determine the Quality of Life in the City Councils of Chile

open access: yesMathematics, 2023
The quality of life index is an indicator published yearly since 2010 by the Institute on Urban and Territorial Studies and the Chilean Chamber of Construction, involving 99 municipalities and communes from the national territory.
Gonzalo Ríos-Vásquez   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Effect of risk and incentives on contracts: The case of farm operators in Iowa

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
Abstract Longitudinal data on Iowa landowner–operator contracts are used to examine how the mean, variance, and skewness of expected farmland returns affected contract terms from 2008 to 2019. To control for unobserved operator risk preferences and ability as a fixed effect, the sample includes operators with multiple contracts.
Jun Yeong Lee
wiley   +1 more source

Econometric Analysis of Energy Consumption Pattern of Different Tillage Methods in Corn Cultivation [PDF]

open access: yesBiomechanism and Bioenergy Research
In this study, 5 different treatments of tillage and planting with 3 replications for corn crop were considered in cultivation and industry of Naz Sari plain.
Mohammad Sharifi   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Financial Econometrics [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Financial econometrics has developed into a very fruitful and vibrant research area in the last two decades. The availability of good data promotes research in this area, specially aided by online data and high-frequency data. These two characteristics of financial data also create challenges for researchers that are different from classical macro ...
openaire   +3 more sources

The Philosophy of Econometrics

open access: yes, 2023
This text aims to train the reader in critical statistical reasoning. We do this through taking a closer look at the methods and philosophy behind our everyday econometric practices. By the end of this book, you will have a better understanding of why statistical methods are the way they are, but also what their limitations are, and how we should think
openaire   +2 more sources

An investigation of the price discovery role of futures markets: A dynamic time warping analysis of the United States corn markets

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
Abstract Futures markets are critical to price discovery and often dominate spot markets. We analyze the linkages between daily corn futures and spot prices in the United States using dynamic time warping. This nonparametric pattern recognition technique has several advantages over traditional time series methods.
Dragan Miljkovic   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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