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Effects of Environmental and Health Information on Willingness to Pay for Local and Organic Foods in Taiwan

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Using a lab‐in‐the‐field experiment, we investigate how providing information about food miles and pesticide residue influences willingness to pay (WTP) for potatoes among 407 shoppers in Taiwan, split between a supermarket and a farmers market.
Chiu‐Lin Huang, Edward C. Jaenicke, Martina Vecchi, Sheng‐Jang Sheu   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Cognitive and Neural Correlates of Mathematical Giftedness in Adults and Children: A Review

Frontiers in Psychology, 2017
Most mathematical cognition research has focused on understanding normal adult function and child development as well as mildly and moderately impaired mathematical skill, often labeled developmental dyscalculia and/or mathematical learning disability ...
Timothy Myers, Emma Carey, Dénes Szűcs
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Who Are the Consumers of European Farmers' Markets? A Cross‐Country Analysis

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT With substantial growth in the number of farmers' markets (FMs) in developed countries, the number of consumers visiting FMs is also increasing. This study comparatively assesses the consumers of FMs in three European countries where FMs traditionally play a distinctive role in food supply chains.
Áron Török, Gréta Maró, Zsófia Jámbor, Zalán Márk Maró, Barbara Tocco, Péter Balogh, Péter Czine   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Talented and living on the wrong side of the tracks [PDF]

, 2010
Gifted young people from low socioeconomic backgrounds are underrepresented in gifted and talented programs in New Zealand schools (Ministry of Education, 2000) and in recent years this has been highlighted as an area of concern. The aim of this paper is
Ballam, Nadine Dawn
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Swedish Consumers' Willingness‐to‐Pay for Plant‐Based Proteins in Pasta Sauce: Preferences and Policy Scenarios

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper explores Swedish consumers' protein preferences by estimating the willingness‐to‐pay (WTP) for minced meat and plant‐based proteins in pasta sauce from an in‐store experiment (n = 206) and an online discrete choice experiment (n = 517). On average, the WTP was highest for minced meat.
Emilia Mattsson, Anna Kristina Edenbrandt, Jens Rommel, Sarah Säll   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Features of modern educational programs for intellectually gifted high school students in Europe and North America [PDF]

Современная зарубежная психология, 2015
This article provides an overview of the main trends in the creation of educational programs for gifted students in schools in Europe, USA and Canada. It is focused on general principles in developing the content of curricula for gifted students, such as
Ermakov S.S.
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Lost in aggregation? On the importance of local food price data for food poverty estimates

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper explores within‐country variations in food price dynamics and food poverty estimates by employing local market price data and national consumer price index (CPI) data. Our results show that national CPI data may be useful for approximating national trends but they fail to detect and identify spatial variations in local trends, which
Stephan Dietrich, Valerio Giuffrida, Bruno Martorano, Georg Schmerzeck, Marco Tiberti   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Writing because I want to, not because I have to: Young gifted writers’ perspectives on the factors that “matter” in developing expertise [PDF]

, 2011
The study reported on here sought to better understand the development of writing talent from the perspectives of a group of gifted adolescent female writers.
Garrett, Lynda, Moltzen, Roger
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A community‐driven approach to address substance use and create a Great Plains American Indian addiction and recovery research agenda

American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Substance use, specifically opioid and methamphetamine use, is of increasing concern among American Indian (AI) populations in the Great Plains. This community‐driven participatory study investigated the impacts of substance use and community‐defined needs in treating addiction.
Brynn Luger, Anna Kihlström, Brinda Sivaramakrishnan, Allison Kelliher, Frankie Kropp, Carmen Rosa, T. John Winhusen, Donald Warne, the CTN0129 participating Tribal communities   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Investigation of the Resilience, Self-Efficacy, and Perceived Social Support of Gifted Students

Ankara Üniversitesi Eğitim Bilimleri Fakültesi Özel Eğitim Dergisi
Introduction: This research aimed to analyze the levels of psychological resilience in terms of different variables, self-efficacy, and perceived social support among gifted students, investigate the relationships between these variables, and examine the
Ayşegül Kılıçaslan Çelikkol, Özge Yıldırım   +1 more
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