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Financial Inclusion and Labour Market Participation of Women in Selected Countries in Africa
Economics and Culture, 2021 Research purpose: This study investigates the impact of financial inclusion on female labour force participation in Africa. It also complements the existing studies by evaluating how advancement in information and communication technology (ICT) and Trade
Ajide Folorunsho M.
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cuteHap: Haplotype‐Aware Structural Variant Detection in Phased Long‐Read Sequencing Data
Advanced Science, EarlyView.cuteHap is a haplotype‐aware structural variant detection method designed for phased long‐read sequencing. By employing self‐adaptive clustering and credibility‐prioritized beam search algorithms, cuteHap generates accurate haplotype‐resolved calls and outperforms state‐of‐the‐art tools.
Shuqi Cao +7 more
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Adult Sex Ratio as a Demographic Feedback Linking Mating Systems, Parental Care, and Evolution
Advanced Science, EarlyView.Breeding systems are some of the most diverse social behavior, and our team is investigation the evolutionary causes of this diversity. This review summarises our research carried out at the University of Bath. We argue that demographic components of wild populations, especially the adult sex ratio, plays a key role driving breeding system variation ...
Tamás Székely, Oscar G. Miranda
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Female Empowerment: Impact of a Commitment Savings Product in the Philippines [PDF]
Female "empowerment" has increasingly become a policy goal, both as an end to itself and as a means to achieving other development goals. Microfinance in particular has often been argued, but not without controversy, to be a tool for empowering women ...
Dean Karlan, Nava Ashraf, Wesley Yin
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Women and Peace: Female Political Empowerment & the Prevention of Civil Violence [PDF]
, 2017 Today conflict mainly occurs within nations (as opposed to between nations), and the importance of women in creating and maintaining peace (which can be most simply defined as the absence of violence) through informal and formal leadership roles has also
O\u27Keefe, Piper D.
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Early diversion and empowerment policing : evaluating an adult female offender triage project [PDF]
, 2016 This paper provides an evaluation of a police pilot early-diversion scheme for adult females who were arrested for low-severity offences using a natural experiment design.
Brennan, Iain R. +2 more
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Additive and Partially Dominant Effects from Genomic Variation Contribute to Rice Heterosis
Advanced Science, EarlyView.Additive and partially dominant effects, namely at mid‐parent levels or values between mid‐parent and parental levels, respectively, are the predominant inheritance patterns of heterosis‐associated molecules. These two genetic effects contribute to heterosis of agronomic traits in both rice and maize, as well as biomass heterosis in Arabidopsis ...
Zhiwu Dan +8 more
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.Abstract Nucleus outgrower schemes are contractual arrangements where well‐resourced large‐scale farmers (nucleus farmers) are empowered by development support agencies to take charge of smallholder farmers, by providing them with market access and the necessary training on agronomic practices and farm inputs for production.
Dominic Tasila Konja, Awudu Abdulai
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Women's Empowerment in South Asia and Southeast Asia: A Comparative Analysis [PDF]
This paper uses multivariate regression analysis to explore the time and birth cohort trends of women’s empowerment in eight countries of South Asia and South East Asia.
Chaudhuri, Sanjukta
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The Cordillera Administrative Region in the Philippines is home to terraced rice embedded in centuries of cultural heritage. However, weak market incentives threaten sustained production, jeopardizing indigenous communities' cultural heritage and the in situ biodiversity of rice genetic resources.
Kofi Britwum, Matty Demont
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