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Ancestral Irrigation and Women's Political Empowerment
Kyklos, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically that the adoption of irrigation agriculture during the preindustrial period is a predictor of contemporary cross‐country variation in women's political empowerment. Countries whose populations historically relied on irrigation agriculture as their primary subsistence mode tend to ...
Roberto Ezcurra
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Results of a low power ice protection system test and a new method of imaging data analysis [PDF]
Tests were conducted on a BF Goodrich De-Icing System's Pneumatic Impulse Ice Protection (PIIP) system in the NASA Lewis Icing Research Tunnel (IRT). Characterization studies were done on shed ice particle size by changing the input pressure and cycling ...
Bond, Thomas H. +2 more
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NAEPirtparams: IRT Parameters for the National Assessment of Education Progress [PDF]
, 2021 Sun-joo Lee [aut, cre], Eric Buehler [aut], Paul Bailey [ctb]
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Language Learning, EarlyView.Abstract This study examined second language vocabulary processing and learning in reading only (RO) versus reading while listening (RWL). 119 English learners read or read‐while‐listening to a story embedded with 25 pseudowords, 10 times each, and had their eye movements tracked.
Jonathan Malone +3 more
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Experimental comparison of icing cloud instruments [PDF]
Icing cloud instruments were tested in the spray cloud Icing Research Tunnel (IRT) in order to determine their relative accuracy and their limitations over a broad range of conditions. It was found that the average of the readings from each of the liquid
Adams, K., Olsen, W., Takeuchi, D. M.
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The Relative Sensitivity of Marigold vs. Tomato to Iron (Fe) Toxicity Is Associated with Root Traits: Root-to-Shoot Mass Ratio, Failure to Sequester Fe in Roots, and Levels of the Major Fe-Uptake Protein, IRT [PDF]
, 2022 Emina Kostić +4 more
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Molecular Microbiology, EarlyView.The mechanisms of small RNA biogenesis in fungi are diverse and multifactorial. Here, we provide an improved understanding of the processing of double‐stranded RNA in the human fungal pathogen Aspergillus fumigatus, revealing susceptibility to high levels of double‐stranded RNA and limited input of the canonical RNAi machinery on the endogenous small ...
Xiaoqing Pan +5 more
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Markov Chain Monte Carlo Estimation of Normal Ogive IRT Models in MATLAB [PDF]
Modeling the interaction between persons and items at the item level for binary response data, item response theory (IRT) models have been found useful in a wide variety of applications in various fields. This paper provides the requisite information and
Yanyan Sheng
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A Nonparametric Multidimensional Latent Class IRT Model in a Bayesian Framework [PDF]
, 2017 Francesco Bartolucci +2 more
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