Results 101 to 110 of about 47,638 (255)

His Failures Have Served Us Well

Journal of Awareness-Based Systems Change
This book review examines Adam Kahane’s Everyday Habits, which distills insights from hundreds of systems change practitioners into seven habits which he calls ‘ways of being and acting”—including Acting Responsibly, Looking for What’s Unseen, and ...
James Gimian, Gabrielle Donnelly
doaj   +1 more source

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

A Cybernetic Metric Approach to Course Preparation [PDF]

Journal of Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics
This paper reviews and unifies 15 papers and book chapters written by the author over the past decade. The paper shows that an underlying commonality of all the author's approaches to a wide variety of pedagogical problems relies on three pillars: (a) a ...
Russell Jay Hendel
doaj  

In Defence of Nudging from a Virtue Ethics Perspective

Conatus - Journal of Philosophy
Nudging is typically understood as a design intended to influence the behaviour or choices of decision-makers to promote their own or other stakeholders’ welfare by steering choices in beneficial directions without restricting their freedom of choice ...
Ritesh Bansal, Joby Varghese
doaj   +1 more source

Assessing Household Welfare in Response to Rising Food Prices in The Gambia

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines how rising food prices affected household welfare in The Gambia using nationally representative data from the 2015/16 Integrated Household Survey (IHS‐3). The analysis reflects household consumption behavior and market conditions prevailing during that period and provides a structural benchmark for understanding ...
Roger Vorsah, Obed Quaicoe, Fafanyo Asiseh, John N. Ng'ombe   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Sugar slay: a gamified decision support ecosystem for type 1 diabetes

Frontiers in Digital Health
Background/IntroductionType 1 Diabetes (T1D) management demands consistent attention to blood glucose levels, insulin dosing, physical activity, sleep, and diet-tasks that are especially burdensome for adolescents and young adults navigating new ...
Sundararaman Rengarajan, Nicholas Abrams, Aspen Tabar, Hariharan Sundaram, Kavya Pratap Singh, Leanne Chukoskie, Leanne Chukoskie   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Habit formation viewed as structural change in the behavioral network. [PDF]

Commun Biol, 2023
Yamada K, Toda K.
europepmc   +1 more source

The Cost of a Nutritious Diet in Cafeterias: Evidence From US Military Dining Facilities

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Providing nutritious meals in institutional settings with financial constraints, such as military dining facilities, is challenging. The US Department of War (DoW) and US Department of Agriculture (USDA) collaborated to modernize the Basic Daily Food Allowance (BDFA) using an optimization model that incorporates service members' consumption ...
Linlin Fan, Yiwen Zhao, Andrea Carlson, Parke Wilde, Joanna Reagan, Julianna Jayne, Starr Seip, Denise Laursen, Matthew P. Rabbitt   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Promoting Healthier Drinking: Evidence From a Vignette Experiment on Contextual and Informational Drivers of Dealcoholized Wine Choices

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Growing demand for healthier beverages is driving innovation in the wine sector, with dealcoholized wine emerging as a promising alternative. However, little is known about the contextual conditions under which consumers would choose dealcoholized wine, particularly in countries with strong wine traditions. To fill this gap, this work examines
Giovanna Piracci, Giulia Maesano, Leonardo Casini, Maurizio Canavari, Marija Cerjak   +4 more
wiley   +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