Beyond the Ban—Shedding Light on Smallholders' Price Vulnerability in Indonesia's Palm Oil Industry
ABSTRACT The Indonesian government imposed a palm oil export ban in April 2022 to address rising cooking oil prices. This study explores oil palm smallholders' vulnerability to the policy using descriptive statistics, Lasso, and post‐Lasso OLS regressions.
Charlotte‐Elena Reich +3 more
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The thesis of this essay is that asking whether the conduct of Information Warfare is like the conduct of war described in the Warring States era in ancient China by Sun-Tzu's Art of War can provide strategic insight. It is not asserted, however, that Info War equals Sun-Tzu's Art of War. This essays also asserts that the very "otherness" and "oddness"
Gaafar, Ranja +3 more
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Thoughts about a General Theory of Influence in a DIME/PMESII/ASCOP/IRC2 Model [PDF]
The leading question of this paper is: “How would influence warfare (“iWar”) work and how can we simulate it?” The paper discusses foundational aspects of a theory and model of influence warfare by discussing a framework built along the DIME/PMESII/ASCOP
Kodalle, Thorsten +3 more
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Return and Volatility Spillovers Among Major Cotton Markets
ABSTRACT This study explores return and volatility transmission among major cotton markets. Several events have disrupted cotton supply and demand in recent years, leading to heightened price volatility and significant shifts in market interconnections.
Susmitha Kalli +3 more
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As an emerging dietary essential fatty acid, pentadecanoic acid (C15:0) is expected to have bioactive metabolites with broad health benefits. Here, we evaluated pentadecanoylcarnitine, an endogenous C15:0 metabolite, for dose dependent cell-based ...
Stephanie Venn-Watson +2 more
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Training and education for network centric warfare : issues for New Zealand's Defence Force : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Defence and Strategic Studies at Massey University [PDF]
The concept of Network centric warfare (NCW) is viewed as the next revolution in military affairs. Its introduction globally will necessarily affect the way the New Zealand Armed Forces operates in future conflicts.
Currey, Eden Douglas
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Assessing the Impact of Promotions on Consumer Purchasing Behavior During Crises
ABSTRACT Understanding how households modify their food expenditure decisions during times of crisis is essential because consumer purchasing behavior frequently changes during these times. This study looks at these behavioral shifts during the COVID‐19 pandemic, concentrating on how price sensitivity and response to sales promotions changed over the ...
Wafa Mehaba, José María Gil
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A Threat to Cyber Resilience : A Malware Rebirthing Botnet [PDF]
This paper presents a threat to cyber resilience in the form of a conceptual model of a malware rebirthing botnet which can be used in a variety of scenarios. It can be used to collect existing malware and rebirth it with new functionality and signatures
Brand, Murray +2 more
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The Geography of Success: A Spatial Analysis of Export Intensity in the Italian Wine Industry
ABSTRACT This paper investigates the paradox of how Italy's fragmented, SME‐dominated wine industry achieves global export success. Moving beyond purely firm‐centric explanations, we test whether export intensity is spatially dependent, clustering geographically in regional ecosystems.
Nicolas Depetris Chauvin, Jonas Di Vita
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Bistatic 3D SAR for wall parameter extraction in cluttered environments
Through‐wall radar is an emergent technology rooted in urban surveillance, a key component being synthetic aperture radar (SAR). Accurate through‐wall SAR relies on knowledge of the refractive index and thickness of any obscuring walls.
James Elgy, Daniel Andre, Mark Finnis
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