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Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Understanding how policy instruments with overlapping goals interact is crucial for leveraging their synergies. This study explores the mechanisms for regional nature parks (a form of protected areas that impose no restrictions on agriculture) to enhance the adoption of biodiversity‐conserving agri‐environment schemes (AES) in Switzerland ...
Yanbing Wang +3 more
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Ecolinguistics: Studying the interaction between language and the environment
CogniTextesEcolinguistics has developed as an approach to language studies over the past fifty years. Since its beginnings in the 1970s it has applied the ecology metaphor to language in various ways to study the interaction between language and its environment ...
Hermine Penz
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Tamilmanam International Research Journal of Tamil StudiesLanguage, the cornerstone of human civilization, has evolved from rudimentary forms like sign language, coded communication, and pictorial representation to sophisticated systems imbued with complex grammatical structures and rich literary traditions.
Nandhini K, null Dr. R. Subramani
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Applied 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
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Вестник Волгоградского государственного университета: Серия 2. Языкознание, 2015 The present article gives a brief overview of the major scientific theories and ideas developed by Professor Alexander Skovorodnikov, such as the system of expressive syntactic constructions analyzed in the syntactic fields in speech in the Russian ...
Kopnina Galina Anatolyevna +1 more
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The language ecology of a new Afrikaans Bible
Acta Theologica, 2002 Three sets of codes are germane to a current Afrikaans Bible translation: Dutch, English and varieties of Afrikaans, especially Standard Afrikaans. Dutch was established as a local language of culture in the Dutch era from 1652 to 1806.
F. Ponelis
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English as an International Language: an Overview [PDF]
, 2012 As indicated in the title, this paper provides a brief overview of English as an International Language (EIL) by elaborating it as a paradigm and discussing concepts that are closely related to it.
Dewi, A. (Anita)
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Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Increased frequency of extreme weather events, particularly droughts, threatens grassland farming by destabilizing yields and farms' economic viability. We examine, theoretically and through numerical simulations, how sown plant diversity (natural insurance) influences the attractiveness of indemnity and drought index insurance (formal ...
Nicolas Alou +3 more
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.Abstract Nucleus outgrower schemes are contractual arrangements where well‐resourced large‐scale farmers (nucleus farmers) are empowered by development support agencies to take charge of smallholder farmers, by providing them with market access and the necessary training on agronomic practices and farm inputs for production.
Dominic Tasila Konja, Awudu Abdulai
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Digital Ecosystems: Ecosystem-Oriented Architectures
, 2011 We view Digital Ecosystems to be the digital counterparts of biological ecosystems. Here, we are concerned with the creation of these Digital Ecosystems, exploiting the self-organising properties of biological ecosystems to evolve high-level software ...
Briscoe, Gerard +2 more
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