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Mitigating measurement error in misspecified small area models

Canadian Journal of Statistics, EarlyView.
Abstract In the framework of Small area estimation, we consider an area‐level model where a subset of covariates is measured with error. The extent of the error is assumed to be constant throughout the areas, and it is expressed by a scalar parameter γ$$ \gamma $$, which multiplies the deterministic covariance matrix of the estimator of the true ...
Diego Battagliese, Serena Arima, Brunero Liseo, Alessio Pollice   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Transforming Agricultural Water Management Through the Water–Energy–Food Nexus: Trends, Opportunities, Barriers and Solutions

Irrigation and Drainage, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Agricultural water management (AWM) is increasingly transitioning towards transformative thinking, where interconnected sectors, including water, energy and food, are managed holistically. Trends point towards cross‐sectoral and harmonised strategies to optimise water use efficiency and productivity, integrate renewable energy, promote ...
Luxon Nhamo, Cuthbert Taguta, Sylvester Mpandeli, Tinashe Dirwai, Stanley Liphadzi, Tafadzwanashe Mabhaudhi   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Análisis contrastivo de la formulación de recomendaciones en dos géneros jurídicos [PDF]

Ibérica, 2012
Recommendation is a common communicative operation in the work of many types of professionals, for instance, lawyers. The aim of this paper is to compare the linguistic expression of recommendations in two legal genres containing directive speech acts ...
Anna López Samaniego, Raquel Taranilla García   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Informe de sostenibilidad 2020

, 2021
Por tercer año consecutivo, les presentamos nuestro Informe de sostenibilidad, documento institucional que abarca las principales acciones desempeñadas en la vigencia 2020, en la relevancia y el compromiso de nuestra alma mater con la sostenibilidad ...
Solicitud Régimen Tributario Especial
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Drivers and Challenges of Micro‐Irrigation Adoption and Intensity in India: A Study of Four States

Irrigation and Drainage, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT India's food security relies substantially on groundwater, but inefficient irrigation is seriously depleting this resource. Micro‐irrigation (MI) improves irrigation application efficiency and productivity, yet adoption remains low. This study examines MI adoption across four major Indian states—Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh and ...
Gurpreet Singh, Vasant P. Gandhi, Arnab K. Laha   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Remote Sensing for Irrigation Water Management—The State of the Art and Prospects for Near‐Future Operations

Irrigation and Drainage, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A recent UN report describes many regions as facing ‘water bankruptcy,’ a condition in which available water resources can no longer meet existing demands. In practice, this means irrigation will likely bear the greatest burden of future water‐use reductions, a complicated and fraught decision to make given its critical role in food security ...
Wim G. M. Bastiaanssen, Chris Perry, Royce Dalby, Yasir Mohamed, Xueliang Cai, Poolad Karimi, IJsbrand de Jong, Pasquale Steduto, Marat Beksultanov, Christopher C. M. Neale, David Molden, Waqas Awan, Laarousi Mohamed, Jippe Hoogeveen, Jeff Davids, Nutchanart Sriwongsitanon, P. S. Rao, Roula Bachour, Palitha Bandara, Sophea Chhim, Richard Evans, Tom Lahad, D. Nagesh Kumar, Zakaria Adawy, Devendra Singh Bundela, Kawa Hakzi, Isaya Kisekka, Nicolas Puelma, Alejandro A. Pannunzio, Benjamin Koetz, Mukhiddin Ibragimov   +30 more
wiley   +1 more source

Andreas Müller-Pohle: poesia visual e de-figuração

Aletria: Revista de Estudos de Literatura, 2014
Este texto discute a fotografia abstrata como forma poética focalizando a obra do artista alemão Andreas Müller-Pohle. Desde a década de 1970, Müller-Pohle explora diferentes procedimentos que, apesar de baseados nos princípios da fotografia analógica ...
Isabel Florêncio-Pape
doaj   +1 more source

“Women of the Happy Life”: Prostitution, Public Morality, and Venereal Disease in US‐Occupied Nicaragua, 1912–33

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT During the years of the US occupation (1912–33), Nicaragua's government legally regulated prostitution. Convinced of their objectives to protect society's moral and public health, politicians embarked on a long struggle to apprehend, quarantine, and segregate female prostitutes nationwide.
Eimeel Castillo
wiley   +1 more source

Informally on Informal [PDF]

Sotsiologicheskoe Obozrenie / Russian Sociological Review, 2016
Review: Svetlana Barsukova, Jesse o neformal'noj jekonomike, ili 16 ottenkov serogo [Essays on Informal Economy; or, 16 Shades of Grey] (Moscow: HSE, 2015) (in Russian).
openaire   +1 more source

Commentary: The Canadian Accounting Hall of Fame—An Analysis of Early Inductees and Immanent Critique*,†

Accounting Perspectives, Volume 24, Issue 1, Page 251-274, March 2025.
ABSTRACT The Canadian Accounting Hall of Fame (CAHF) has inducted 31 members during its first three years of operation, with the stated intent of establishing a critical mass of inductees “who have made significant contributions to the development of the Canadian accounting profession” and of creating “a curated biographical history of accounting in ...
Alan J. Richardson
wiley   +1 more source