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Eskimos, Reindeer, and Land [PDF]

open access: yes, 1980
The following report is based on an interdisciplinary research study undertaken to investigate the social, economic, and cultural aspects of reindeer herding in northwestern Alaska.
Arobio, Edward L.   +3 more
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Motion und Emotion : zur Balance der Antriebskräfte bei Moholy-Nagy [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Wissenschaftliches Kolloquium vom 24. bis 27.
Herding, Klaus
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Livestock Tango: U.S. and Latin America Dance Together, but Who Will Lead?

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines the competitiveness between Latin American and U.S. livestock and meat sectors. We employ a computable general equilibrium modeling framework to evaluate two scenarios: coordinated improvements in Latin American productivity, transport efficiency, and market access (Scenario I), and the minimum productivity gains required ...
Taís C. Menezes   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Competition Policy and Agribusiness in the Biden Administration

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Biden Administration pursued a set of ambitious competition policy initiatives in agriculture and agribusiness, primarily aimed at livestock and poultry supply chains, farm inputs, and food retailing. The initiatives included expanded antitrust enforcement; new US Department of Agriculture (USDA) contract regulations requiring poultry ...
James M. MacDonald
wiley   +1 more source

Market states and institutional herds: evidence from the Taiwan stock market

open access: yesCogent Economics & Finance
This study examines whether institutional herds, as defined by Chung and Kim, influence future excess returns across different market states in Taiwan stock market. Using specialized trading data aggregated from three major institutional investor groups,
Nicholas Ruei-Lin Lee   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Izhma-Komi reindeer herding: ethnic invariants and local variations

open access: yesВестник археологии, антропологии и этнографии, 2017
This article raises a problem of reindeer herding types. On the basis of ethnographic flieldwork data the authors compare technological traits and herding techniques of the «classical» Izhma-Komi reindeer herding of Bolshezemelskaya tundra to those ...
Istomin K.V., Liskevich N.A.
doaj   +1 more source

Comparison of Bull-Dam Herds, Progeny Testing Herds, and Other Dairy Herd Improvement Herds

open access: yesJournal of Dairy Science, 1991
Abstract Michigan and Northeast dairy herds that produced young bulls for AI sampling from 1974 to 1981 and 1978 to 1981, respectively, and those involved in progeny testing were compared with their contemporary DHI herds. The 1985 lactation records of Michigan herds and 1980 to 1987 data of Northeast herds were acquired from respective DHIA data ...
I.L. Mao   +3 more
openaire   +1 more source

The Role of Social Food Infrastructure in Addressing SNAP Participation Gaps: Evidence From Linked Administrative and Ground‐Sourced Data

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We link American Community Survey and SNAP records for 185,000 units with ground‐sourced social food infrastructure data from FindFoodIL (Illinois Extension SNAP‐Ed) to examine SNAP participation determinants among eligible units. Bivariate probit models reveal, beyond SNAP offices, quantity of social infrastructure is associated with ...
Michael Lotspeich‐Yadao   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Herd Behavior in Venture Capital Market: Evidence from China

open access: yesMathematics, 2021
This paper aims to empirically analyze the herd behavior in the VC market in the context of China, including the existence, causes and consequences of herding among venture capitalists. For our empirical analysis, we first construct a herding measure and
Ruijun Zhang   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

The noisy voter model under the influence of contrarians

open access: yes, 2018
The influence of contrarians on the noisy voter model is studied at the mean-field level. The noisy voter model is a variant of the voter model where agents can adopt two opinions, optimistic or pessimistic, and can change them by means of an imitation ...
Khalil, Nagi, Toral, Raul
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