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AntioxidantsLiaoning cashmere goats is a dual-purpose breed valued for premium cashmere fiber and meat yields, and there is currently a lack of optimized strategies for meat quality, including skeletal muscle development and lipid partitioning.
Di Han +7 more
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The Returns to Scarce Talent: Footedness and Player Remuneration in European Soccer [PDF]
We investigate the salary returns to the ability to play football with both feet. The majority of footballers are predominantly right footed. Using two data sets, a cross-section of footballers in the five main European leagues and a panel of players in ...
Alex Bryson, Bernd Frick, Rob Simmons
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Performance of Fall Armyworm Spodoptera frugiperda Reared on Various Horticultural Crops
Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata, EarlyView.The developmental performance and reproductive success of the Australian population of fall armyworm (Spodoptera frugiperda) were evaluated on five horticultural crops under laboratory conditions. Sweetcorn and bean supported rapid development, lower mortality, and higher fecundity (good performance); whereas capsicum, strawberry, and okra resulted in ...
Rajendra Regmi +5 more
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THE NATIONAL MORTGAGE INSURANCE CORPORATION: THE CONCEPT, ROLE AND IMPORTANCE
Pravo, 2015 THE National mortgage insurance corporation in Serbia has insured more than 80.000 loans since its establishment. Its existence has contributed to a large number of citizens obtain a housing loan, because a mortgage insurance achieves a lower interest ...
Vladana Petrakis
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The Role of Pre-Market Skills in Explaining the Height Premium in Earnings
, 2012 This study attempts to improve our understanding of the height premium by using large-scale register data on 450,000 Swedish males who underwent mandatory military enlistment at age 18. With detailed data on cognitive skills and non-cognitive skills, as well as adult earnings, we show that each type of skill explain similar fractions of the height ...
Lundborg, Petter +2 more
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The commercialization of labour markets: Evidence from wage inequality in the Middle Ages
The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract This paper moves beyond the focus on ‘average’ wage trends in pre‐industrial economies by examining the broad diversity of pay rates and forms of remuneration across occupations and regions in medieval England. We find that whilst some workers enjoyed substantial growth in wage rates after the Black Death, there was a large group who ...
Jordan Claridge +2 more
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HeliyonMolybdenum (Mo) is a crucial microelement for both, humans and plants. The use of agronomic biofortification techniques can be an alternative method to enhance Mo content in vegetables.
Lorena Vultaggio +7 more
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Equine Veterinary Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Background Gestational and early‐life exposures may modulate development during growth and influence future athletic performance. Objectives To investigate associations between gestational and early‐life exposures in Thoroughbreds and (i) likelihood of racing, (ii) total number of runs and (iii) total prizemoney by the end of the 3‐year‐old ...
Rebecca Mouncey +3 more
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GOVERNMENT VS. ANARCHY: MODELING THE EVOLUTION OF INSTITUTIONS [PDF]
This paper gives a general mathematical definition of an institution, and presents an explicit formal method by which to incorporate institutions in a standard general equilibrium model.
Bullock, David S., Mittenzwei, Klaus
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Bank Opacity and Safe Asset Moneyness
Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, EarlyView.Abstract A bank is more effective as a supplier of money‐like safe assets when (i) its return on equity (ROE) is relatively lower and (ii) it is relatively more opaque about its balance sheet. A model is presented to support this, emphasizing that safe asset investors focus on the left tail of the collateral value distribution.
SANG RAE KIM
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