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Staging an Experience of Cultural Heritage Preservation: Consumers' Willingness to Pay for Heirloom Rice in the Philippines

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Cordillera Administrative Region in the Philippines is home to terraced rice embedded in centuries of cultural heritage. However, weak market incentives threaten sustained production, jeopardizing indigenous communities' cultural heritage and the in situ biodiversity of rice genetic resources.
Kofi Britwum, Matty Demont
wiley   +1 more source

La lagune de La Palme (Aude, France) face au comblement et à l'eutrophisation

open access: yesPhysio-Géo, 2016
The paper aims at achieving a better understanding of the La Palme lagoon functioning and its evolution in time and space. Anthropogenic infrastructures and activities have reduced the water area, disrupted water exchanges, promoted sedimentation and ...
Jean-Pierre Larue, Jean Rouquet
doaj   +1 more source

Food insecurity and unemployment among immigrants in the United States

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Immigrants can be more vulnerable to economic downturns and, during periods of economic hardship, more likely to experience food insecurity compared to natives. This study examines the differential effect of the unemployment rate on the probability of being food insecure among diverse groups of immigrant households relative to natives in the ...
Siwen Zhou   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The influence of tidal dynamics on exchange of meroplankton (Bivalvia, Gastropoda) between the Busse Lagoon and adjacent marine area of the Aniva Bay

open access: yesИзвестия ТИНРО, 2018
Exchange of Bivalvia and Gastropoda larvae between the Aniva Bay and Busse Lagoon is described on results of the plankton survey conducted in the connecting Suslov Channel in 2014. Taxonomic composition of meroplankton is described.
T. S. Shpilko, G. V. Shevchenko
doaj   +1 more source

Origin, evolution and biogeographic dynamics of the European rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus) in Southwestern Europe

open access: yesThe Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
Abstract The Pleistocene is a key period for understanding the evolutionary history and palaeobiogeography of the European rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus). The species was first documented in southeastern Iberia at the beginning of the Middle Pleistocene and appears to have rapidly spread throughout Southwestern Europe, where it was found in numerous ...
Maxime Pelletier
wiley   +1 more source

Peak Acceleration Distribution on the Surface of Reef Islands under the Action of Vertical Ground Motion

open access: yesApplied Sciences
This paper adopts the fluid–structure coupling algorithm based on the acoustic fluid element, the fluid dynamic artificial boundary, and the consistent viscoelastic artificial boundary of solid media to establish a finite element model of the dynamic ...
Liguo Jin   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Bpifcl modulates kiss2 expression under the influence of 11-ketotestosterone in female zebrafish

open access: yesScientific Reports, 2017
The bactericidal/permeability-increasing (BPI) fold-containing (BPIF) superfamily of genes expressed in the brain are purportedly involved in modulating brain function in response to stress, such as inflammation.
Shogo Moriya   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Measuring the Conservation Value of Lagoons: The Case of Songji Lagoon [PDF]

open access: yesOcean and Polar Research, 2005
In recent days, most of the lagoons in Korea have been lost on account of indiscreet development and pollution. Thus, this study measures the conservation value of the Songji lagoon, a representative lagoon in Korea by using the contingent valuation (CV) method and specifies the non-use value of Songji lagoon.
Seung-Jun Kwak   +2 more
openaire   +1 more source

Duck Orbivirus and Egg Production: A Newly Identified Duck Orbivirus Is the Etiological Agent of Egg Production Decline in Chinese Breeder Ducks

open access: yesAnimal Research and One Health, EarlyView.
Field samples from breeder duck farms with egg‐production decline were subjected to viral detection, genome sequencing, and virus isolation. Experimental infection demonstrated that duck orbivirus (DORV) causes a significant and persistent reduction in egg production in breeder ducks.
Bing Li   +18 more
wiley   +1 more source

Remote Roca: Integrating Data From Archaeological Survey, Remote Sensing and Geophysics in the Hinterland at the Long‐Lasting Mediterranean Site of Rocavecchia (Apulia, Italy)

open access: yesArchaeological Prospection, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study presents a multi‐method non‐invasive investigation of an approximately 4‐ha area associated with the long‐occupied coastal settlement of Rocavecchia (Apulia, southern Italy), situated between the prehistoric fortified peninsula and the Hellenistic‐Messapian walls.
Giuseppe Guarino   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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