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The Power of Unity: Collective Action and Smallholder Agricultural Performance in West Africa

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We analyze the impact of collective action through farmer‐based organizations (FBOs) on smallholders' farm performance and income inequality in Ghana, Benin, The Gambia, and Mali. We find that FBO membership increases cereal yield in Ghana and The Gambia, legume yield in Mali, ruminant numbers in Benin and The Gambia, and total farm income in ...
Emmanuel Donkor, Bright Owusu Asante, David Boansi, Victor Owusu   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Large Language Model‐Based Chatbots in Higher Education

Advanced Intelligent Systems, Volume 7, Issue 3, March 2025.
The use of large language models (LLMs) in higher education can facilitate personalized learning experiences, advance asynchronized learning, and support instructors, students, and researchers across diverse fields. The development of regulations and guidelines that address ethical and legal issues is essential to ensure safe and responsible adaptation
Defne Yigci, Merve Eryilmaz, Ail K. Yetisen, Savas Tasoglu, Aydogan Ozcan   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Promoting radical healing to facilitate community capacity building among formerly incarcerated Black and Latino men with substance use disorders

American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract This study reports on a qualitative thematic analysis of secondary data from group session recordings collected as part of the Community Wise Optimization Trial. Community Wise is a multilevel behavioral intervention designed to increase critical consciousness and reduce substance use among formerly incarcerated men living in predominantly ...
Richmond E. Hayes, Heather A. Jones, Ellen Benoit, Dora N. Watkins, Liliane C. Windsor   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

The “Best of Both Worlds”: Building a community‐academic partnership for research with legal system‐impacted individuals

American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Equitable community‐academic research partnerships provide an innovative way to advance health outcomes among criminal legal system‐impacted individuals. The extant literature lacks accounts that detail the process for developing such partnerships, particularly in community‐based (rather than carceral) settings and with community organizations
Talia R. Cohen, Karen Reece, Aaron Hicks, Deborah Mejchar, Carmen Alonso, Anthony Cooper, Michael R. Koenigs, Daniel W. Grupe   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Agency Costs in Law-Firm Selection: Are Companies Under-Spending on Counsel? [PDF]

, 2016
A growing body of literature examines whether corporate clients derive sufficient value from the law firms that they engage. Yet little attention has been paid to whether clients optimally select among law firms in the first place.
de Fontenay, Elisabeth
core   +2 more sources

Equity and the use of shared water resources [PDF]

Zbornik Radova Pravnog Fakulteta u Nišu, 2017
In this article, the author analyses the contents of the notion of equity in international law on shared water resources. It is stated that the content of equity in international law is not fully ascertained.
Vučić Mihajlo
doaj   +1 more source

Reflections of Indigenous, racialized, and Global South practitioners and scholars on liberatory community wellbeing and mental health praxis: A qualitative study

American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract This qualitative study explores how Indigenous, racialized, and Global South practitioners and scholars engage in liberatory praxis, drawing on decolonial theory and critical psychologies, to reimagine community wellbeing and mental health (CWMH) beyond Western‐based psychological frameworks.
Ramy Barhouche
wiley   +1 more source

The Virtue of Equity and the Contemporary World

Journal of Moral Theology, 2019
In this essay, I argue that Pinckaers provides a natural law theory which justifies the claim that the discernment of an individual citizen according to the virtue of equity might, in specific situations, justifiably stand against the authority of civil ...
Elisabeth Rain Kincaid
doaj  

Overcoming financing constraints to corporate expansion: evidence from a company in an emerging Islamic market [PDF]

, 2009
The sourcing of low-cost finance to facilitate corporate expansion on competitive terms is a major challenge to firms from emerging markets. There are additional constraints in Islamic markets as financial instruments must adhere to shari’ya law.
Hearn, Bruce, Piesse, Jenifer, Strange, Roger   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Educational leaders' reports of conditions for supporting SEL implementation: The power of partnerships

American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Well‐implemented social and emotional learning (SEL) programs are associated with positive student outcomes. Through CalHOPE, County Office of Education (COE) leaders are providing implementation support to districts and schools seeking to improve SEL delivery statewide.
Ashley N. Metzger, Justin D. Caouette, Tiffany M. Jones, CalHOPE Research Committee, Valerie B. Shapiro   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source