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Kenyan Farmers' Policy Priorities During Economic Crisis and Stability: Insights From a Best‐Worst Scaling Experiment

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Amid rising food and fertilizer prices, understanding farmers' policy preferences is critical for effective crisis response. We use best‐worst scaling experiment to assess Kenyan mobile‐owning crop farmers' preferences for government support under high and normal price scenarios.
Mywish K. Maredia   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Enhancing Elderly Health Through Physical Activities: Insights From a Global Bibliometric Review, 1900–2023

open access: yesAGING MEDICINE, EarlyView.
Bibliometric analysis reveals rising global research on physical activity and elderly health, dominated by developed nations. Key hotspots include healthy aging, physical activity's mental health benefits, and VR exercise interventions. Promoting physical activity is vital for healthy aging, requiring greater technology integration and research from ...
Hongman Wang   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Language Ecology in Cyprus, Sweden and Estonia: Bilingual Russian-Speaking Families in Multicultural Settings

open access: yesJournal of the European Second Language Association, 2018
We investigated language transmission in Russian-speaking families in multilingual settings in Cyprus, Estonia and Sweden. What they have in common is their Russian-language background and the minority status of their native language.
Sviatlana Karpava   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Infant Death Clustering in India: Genuine Scarring vs Unobserved Heterogeneity [PDF]

open access: yes
Data from a range of different environments indicate that the incidence of death is not randomly distributed across children or households but, rather, that there is death clustering within households.
Arulampalam, Wiji, Sonia Bhalotra
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Swedish farmers' approval of nudges

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
Abstract Interest in the use of behavioral policy approaches, such as nudges, has strongly increased over the past years, including in the domains of food, agricultural and environmental policies. While the approval of nudges among the general public has been studied extensively, we know little about the attitude of farmers toward nudging. Farmers may (
Liesbeth Colen   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

An Indonesian family’s strategies and practices for maintaining a child’s Japanese in their home country

open access: yesIndonesian Journal of Applied Linguistics
Previous studies on bilingual education have primarily focused on maintaining the heritage language. However, second language maintenance for children in a family setting remains relatively underexplored.
Lisda Nurjaleka   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

MAINTAINING JAVANESE LANGUAGE AND CULTURE TO SUPPORT CHARACTER EDUCATION IN GLOBALIZATION ERA33 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
In their daily life, Javanese society uses Javanese as a means of communication. However, because of the rapid development of communication and information technology and social needs to communicate in globalization era, Javanese societies tend to use
Ngadiso, Ngadiso
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Disentangling the relationships between denomination of origin regulatory councils activities and Spanish wineries' export performance

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
Abstract World markets for quality differentiated agri‐food products are highly competitive, presenting significant challenges for firms aiming to compete effectively. Government agencies and business organizations often implement various export promotion policies to address these challenges.
Nicolás Depetris‐Chauvin   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Community literacy club and family language policymaking initiatives for biliteracy development

open access: yesReading & Writing
Background: Our article analyses two case studies that show an urban South African family and members of a community literacy club engaging in grassroots initiatives as family and community language policymakers and planners for bilingual and biliteracy ...
Xolisa Guzula, Babalwayashe Molate
doaj   +1 more source

Bilingual Proficiency Among California's Health Care Professionals [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
Explores the policy options for encouraging and measuring second-language competence among healthcare providers in ...
Catherine Dower
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