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Do Tax Incentives for Farmland Leases Increase Farm Supply? Evidence From Iowa's Beginning Farmer Tax Credit

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In recent decades, agriculture has become increasingly concentrated through horizontal mergers and acquisitions via corporate entities, and policy makers are concerned this will be exacerbated by the aging population of farm operators. To reduce market concentration in agriculture, many states have enacted policies to entice new prospective ...
Justin M. Ross, Wesley M. Zebrowski, Julia C. D. Valliant   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

English Immersion as Family Language Policy in Spanish Households: Agentive Practices and Emotional Investments

Languages
This article explores English immersion as a type of family language policy in the Spanish region of Castilla-La Mancha. Although the field of family language policy (FLP) has exponentially grown in the last decade to include a range of multilingual ...
Ana María Relaño-Pastor
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Coping With Production Risk: Effects of Sown Plant Diversity on the Attractiveness of Crop Insurance in Grasslands

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Increased frequency of extreme weather events, particularly droughts, threatens grassland farming by destabilizing yields and farms' economic viability. We examine, theoretically and through numerical simulations, how sown plant diversity (natural insurance) influences the attractiveness of indemnity and drought index insurance (formal ...
Nicolas Alou, Sergei Schaub, Martin Quaas, Robert Finger   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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

Indonesian 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, Sonda Sanjaya, Tommi Yuniawan, Rina Supriatnaningsih, Shafa Raihana Suseno   +4 more
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Drivers of Precision Agriculture Adoption in Italian Viticulture

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines the main drivers influencing the adoption of two types of precision farming technologies in the viticultural sector: Decision Support Systems (DSSs) and Variable Rate Technologies (VRTs). We apply a partial proportional odds model and find that socio‐demographic characteristics are not significant determinants of adoption ...
Olimpia Fontana, Linda Arata, Margherita Muzzillo, Paolo Sckokai   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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

AGING 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, Bo Xie, Can Liu, Yifan Song   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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

Journal 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, Natalia Ringblom, Anastassia Zabrodskaja   +2 more
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Defining Frailty in Chinese‐Language Biomedical Literature (2014–2024): A Decade of Conceptual Evolution

AGING MEDICINE, EarlyView.
Frailty definitions in Chinese‐language biomedical literature increasingly align with international frameworks, while retaining conceptual diversity, underscoring the need for multidimensional, cross‐cultural research and integration with traditional Chinese medicine for culturally sensitive clinical practice.
Haodong Wei, David Mockler, Giulia Cavrini, Nathan W. Hill, Daniel Kam Yin Chan, Román Romero Ortuño   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Community literacy club and family language policymaking initiatives for biliteracy development

Reading & 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

Morbidity Among the Aging Population in Northern Bangladesh: An Epidemiological Study

AGING MEDICINE, EarlyView.
Multimorbidity (≥ 2 chronic diseases) is common among aging populations, yet evidence from Bangladesh remains limited. A cross‐sectional survey of 540 older adults in Northern Bangladesh (June–August 2022) assessed multimorbidity using interviews and logistic regression analysis. Multimorbidity prevalence was 75.74% (95% CI: 71.9%–79.3%).
Md. Abu Sayem, Md. Golam Hossain, Md. Mothashin, Md. Nurul Islam   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source