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Lessson-Learned: Participatory Action Research Project with Upland Smallholder Farmers Practicing Cropland Agroforestry System in Wonogiri Regency to Support National Food Security

Habitat, 2021
Indonesia government pays little attention to address impending threat of the existences of upland smallholder farmers due to insufficient farm income. This condition poses an imminent threat to national food security.
Rudy Nur Hidayah, Wiyono Wiyono, Oka Karyanto   +2 more
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Historical Memory of the First World War: Notes on its Shaping in Russia and in the West

Vestnik MGIMO-Universiteta, 2009
The article deals with the reasons, why the First World War didn’t leave stable heroic symbols in the historical memory of the Russians and occupied only marginal place.
E. S. Senjavskaja
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Mental health screening: severity and cut-off point sensitivity of the Athlete Psychological Strain Questionnaire in male and female elite athletes

BMJ Open Sport & Exercise Medicine, 2020
Objectives To examine the sensitivity/specificity of the Athlete Psychological Strain Questionnaire (APSQ) in both male and female elite athletes, and also assess internal consistency and convergent/divergent validity, and determine discriminative ...
Vincent Gouttebarge, Simon Rice, Rosemary Purcell, Patrick Clifton, Peter Harcourt, Alex Kountouris, Alexandra G Parker, Lisa Olive, Michael Llyod, Ben Smith, Beau Busch   +10 more
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Oil, Gas and Conflict: A Mathematical Model for the Resource Curse. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2013
Oil and natural gas are highly valuable natural resources, but many countries with large untapped reserves suffer from poor economic and social-welfare performance. This conundrum is known as the resource curse.
Yiyong Cai, David Newth
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Acyl coenzyme A synthetase long-chain 1 (ACSL1) gene polymorphism (rs6552828) and elite endurance athletic status: a replication study.

PLoS ONE, 2012
The aim of this study was to determine the association between the rs6552828 polymorphism in acyl coenzyme A synthetase (ACSL1) and elite endurance athletic status.
Thomas Yvert, Zi-Hong He, Catalina Santiago, Yang Hu, Yan-Chun Li, Félix Gómez-Gallego, Carmen Fiuza-Luces, Zoraida Verde, Carlos A Muniesa, Jesús Oliván, Alfredo Santalla, Jonatan R Ruiz, Alejandro Lucia   +12 more
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Literary Scholars and Society: Between Marginalization and Elitism

Colloquia, 2022
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Exploiting genetic variation from unadapted germplasm—An example from improvement of sorghum in Ethiopia

Plants, People, Planet, 2022
Societal Impact Statement The productivity of sorghum in Ethiopia has been largely limited by rain‐fed conditions because farmers tend to use local drought‐tolerant but low‐yielding landraces, as high‐yielding and late‐maturing landrace cultivars risk ...
Techale Birhan, Hongxu Dong, Nezif Abajebel, Misganu Wakjira, Cornelia Lemke, Vincent Vadez, Andrew H. Paterson, Kassahun Bantte   +7 more
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Characterisation of the Contact between Cross-Country Skis and Snow: On the Multi-Scale Interaction between Ski Geometry and Ski-Base Texture

Lubricants, 2023
In elite endurance sports, marginal differences in finishing times drive ongoing equipment improvement to enhance athlete performance. In cross-country skiing, researchers, since the 1930s, have faced the challenge of minimising the resistance caused by ...
Kalle Kalliorinne, Gustav Hindér, Joakim Sandberg, Roland Larsson, Hans-Christer Holmberg, Andreas Almqvist   +5 more
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The Position of Marginalized Groups in the Elite Captured Local Level Planning Process in Nepal

Nepal Public Policy Review, 2022
The participatory planning and budgeting process at the local level encourages citizens to participate in the selection, implementation, and management of development plans. Over the last few decades, the elite captured planning process in Nepal is criticized for being unfair to the marginalised groups.
Keshav Kumar Acharya, Raj Kumar Dhungana, Hari Prasad Guragain   +2 more
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Division, result and score margin alter the physical and technical performance of elite wheelchair tennis players [PDF]

Journal of Sports Sciences, 2020
This study determined the physical and technical demands of elite wheelchair tennis (WT) match-play, how the demands differed between divisions (Men, Women, Quad) and the effect that set result and score margin had on these demands. Seventeen WT players were monitored during a singles competition. Physical measures of performance were analysed using an
Barry S. Mason, Rienk M.A. van der Slikke, Michael J. Hutchinson, Vicky L. Goosey-Tolfrey   +3 more
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