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American Journal of Public Health, 2015 The article discusses the U.S. sociologist and photographer Lewis Wickes Hine, and his use of photography to expose the evils of child labor in the twentieth century. Topics include the use of art as a tool for social reform by U.S. artists, writers, and journalists in the twentieth century, the educational deficiencies and health and safety hazards of
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Agriculture, 2023 The practical implementation of the employment promotion effect of the digital economy is closely linked to rural laborers’ digital skills (DS). Therefore, this study uses the Mprobit model to empirically test the impact of DS on rural labor employment ...
Xiumei Wang +3 more
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Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 2013 This study estimates off-farm labor supply from farm operators and their spouses using two different estimation procedures and data from the 2006 Agricultural Resource Management Survey.
Mahesh Pandit +2 more
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Proposed changes to the H-2A program would affect labor costs in the United States and California
California Agriculture, 2022 The H-2A visa program allows farmers in the United States to be certified by the U.S. Department of Labor to recruit and employ guest workers, usually for a maximum of 10 months, when they are unable to find enough workers living in the United States ...
Philip Martin, Zachariah Rutledge
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California Agriculture, 2022 Workplace sexual harassment (SH) has been highlighted as a key issue for female agricultural workers in the United States. This study investigated how workers' descriptive data (age, job experience, attitudes) and specific organizational variables (how ...
Malcolm Hobbs +2 more
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SiDT1 Defines Plant Architecture Reminiscent of Green Revolution in Foxtail Millet
Advanced Science, EarlyView.SiDT1 encodes a GA3‐oxidase that creates a semi‐dwarf, lodging‐resistant architecture reminiscent of the rice Green Revolution. The resulting ideotype performs well under dense planting and provides a valuable genetic resource for high‐yield, mechanized foxtail millet production. ABSTRACT Foxtail millet (Setaria italica) is a drought‐tolerant C4 cereal
Jianzhen Lv +13 more
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Comparative study on 3 oral potassium formulations for treatment of hypokalemia in dairy cows
Journal of Veterinary Internal Medicine, 2019 Background Hypokalemia is of clinical relevance in cattle. Different mostly empirical treatment options are suggested. Hypothesis/Objectives To evaluate if oral administration of potassium influences the plasma concentration, the intracellular ...
Thomas Wittek +3 more
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More jobs and less seasonal employment in California agriculture since 1990
California Agriculture, 2023 Employment in California agriculture has increased over the past 30 years and has become less seasonal. There were an average of 404,000 farm jobs in California in 2020, 10% more than average employment of 367,000 in 1990.
Zachariah Rutledge, Philip Martin
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Advanced Science, EarlyView.Using grilled lamb skewers as a model system, this work builds a multiscale coupling framework from oral processing to retronasal aroma perception, reveals dual‐kinetic release patterns and Electroencephalogram‐characterized central encoding features, and proposes an interpretable physics‐guided deep learning model validated by multiphysics simulation,
Che Shen +12 more
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Extreme Heat and COVID-19: A Dual Burden for Farmworkers
Frontiers in Public Health, 2022 Currently, there is an extensive literature examining heat impacts on labor productivity and health, as well as a recent surge in research around COVID-19.
David López-Carr +4 more
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