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The manuscript tradition of the Betä Ǝsraʾ el (Ethiopian Jews)

, 2020
The manuscript tradition of the Betä Ǝsraʾel, the Jews of Ethiopia, has not been studied before. This article aims to provide a first tentative analysis of a number of features of the Betä Ǝsraʾel manuscript tradition, hoping to contribute to a new understanding of this phenomenon. The Betä Ǝsraʾel lived in close coexistence, albeit not always peaceful,
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Relationships Between European Wildcats and Domestic Cats in an Area of Sympatry: Exploring Key Conservation Questions on Hybridization and Disease Transmission

Animal Conservation, EarlyView.
We have found evidence of behavioural barriers for both hybridization and disease transmission between European wildcats and domestic cats. This includes hierarchical interspecies exclusion enforced by wildcats, as well as sexual selection exerted by wildcat females.
Jose María Gil‐Sánchez, Elena Bertos, Mariola Sánchez‐Cerdá, Emilio Virgós, Marcos Moleón   +4 more
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Requests of Brown by LC Classification: June 2014 [PDF]

, 2014
Requests of Brown from other HELIN libraries - June ...
Souto, Ruth E..
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Farmers' pro‐social motivations and willingness‐to‐accept in markets with public goods

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract To explain how some farmers' decisions may diverge from profit‐maximization, we incorporate proactive social preferences for public goods in an expected utility framework, in addition to reactive risk preferences to uncertainty. We offer empirical evidence that proactive preferences influence farmers' decisions alongside reactive preferences ...
Jill Fitzsimmons, Hikaru Hanawa Peterson, Nathalie Lavoie   +2 more
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Beyond health protection: Estimating the impact of public health insurance on home‐based livestock raising in rural China

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Livestock often serves as self‐insurance against health shocks for rural households in developing countries. However, little is known about how public health insurance affects livestock production decisions. This paper fills the gap by examining the impact of China's New Rural Cooperative Medical Scheme (NRCMS) on household‐level livestock ...
Ran Li
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Rural land rental markets in developing countries: Can survey design innovations improve land market participation statistics?

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract A longstanding puzzle in the African land rental market literature is the often‐observed discrepancy between the number of tenants (renters‐in) and the much smaller number of landlords (renters‐out) in survey data. If this discrepancy derives from systematic biases in survey data responses on rental market participation, then the existing body
Gashaw T. Abate, Kibrom A. Abay, Jordan Chamberlin, Samuel Sebsibie   +3 more
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The application of artificial intelligence in blind ultrasound sweep diagnostics for prenatal medicine: A systematic literature review

Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica, EarlyView.
Artificial intelligence enables the interpretation of blind ultrasound sweeps for prenatal diagnostics. Applications include accurate gestational age estimation, amniotic fluid segmentation, fetal presentation classification, and placental localization.
Johanna Schott, Melanie Wilmes, Adeline Walter, Ruben Plöger, Ingo Gottschalk, Tanja Groten, Florian Recker   +6 more
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The role of agricultural cooperatives in improving mechanization levels: Differences between outsourcing machinery services and household‐owned machines

Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Although mechanization is reshaping rural and agricultural development by reducing drudgery through substituting farm labourers, improving input use efficiency and increasing farm productivity, the level of mechanization in developing countries still needs improvements.
Wanglin Ma, Junpeng Li, Amaka Precious Nnaji, Edinam Dope Setsoafia   +3 more
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Lithic analysis in African archaeology: Advances and key themes

Archaeometry, EarlyView.
Abstract Stone artifacts (lithics) preserve for extended periods; thus they are key evidence for probing the evolution of human technological behaviors. Africa boasts the oldest record of stone artifacts, spanning 3.3 Ma, rare instances of ethnographic stone tool‐making, and stone tool archives from diverse ecological settings, making it an anchor for ...
Deborah I. Olszewski, Amanuel Beyin, Justin Pargeter   +2 more
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Agricultural Intensification in the Burji-Konso Cluster of South-western Ethiopia. [PDF]

, 1979
Amborn H., Amborn H., Amborn H., Amborn H., Anderson D. M., Donham D. L., Egger K., Haberland E., Hallpike C. R., Hallpike C. R., Hermann Amborn, Jensen A. E., Kluckhohn R., Kuls W., Legesse Asmaron, Lydall J., Minker G., Nowak E., Pauli E., Sasse H. J., Sasse H. J., Straube H., Straube H., Straube H., Westphal E.   +24 more
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