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Sustainable Productivity Growth in Agriculture: The Role of Shifts in R&D Investments and Technology

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The objective of the paper is to evaluate the long‐term prospects of sustainable productivity growth linked to plausible assumptions on public agricultural R&D investments as the key productivity driver. Second, it investigates the role of changing R&D focus from yield maximization to input saving technologies (fertilizers and pesticides). The
Zuzana Smeets Křístková, Michiel van Dijk, Robert M'Barek, Hans van Meijl, Tomas Ratinger   +4 more
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Echoes of Hylas and the Poetics of Allusion in Propertius [PDF]

Parole Rubate, 2012
For Propertius the myth of Hylas exemplifies a poetics of selective appropriation and transformation by means of echoes and allusions. He brings it into his poetry as an exemplum, both erotic and metapoetic, and offers evidence that his penchant for ...
Mariapia Pietropaolo
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BRINGING CIVILIZATION: SAVAGERY AND THE TAMING OF THE SAVAGE

Journal of Ancient History and Archaeology, 2015
“See, the Conqu’ring Hero Comes” goes the famous chorus from Handel’s Judas Maccabeus, but how does the hero conquer? Achilles defeats his enemies through his extraordinary prowess in battle, Odysseus by using his wit, but some heroes must abandon the ...
Nicholas D. Newman
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The Role of Artificial Intelligence in Medication Management for Older Adults: A Systematic Review

AGING MEDICINE, EarlyView.
Artificial intelligence enhances medication management for older adults by improving adherence, personalizing treatment, and predicting risks. Despite benefits, challenges remain in usability, trust, ethics, and system integration. Successful adoption requires user‐centered design, ethical safeguards, and seamless healthcare integration to ensure safe,
Dipak Chandra Das, Moustaq Karim Khan Rony, Shovit Dutta, MD. Sami Al Zubair Zujbe, Tapan Bhattacharjee, Niloy Debnath, Shabbir Abdullah Maruf, Chowdhury Galib Mortuza, Farhana Rahman, Akash Das   +9 more
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Proceedings. First Assembly of the Latin-America and Caribbean Seismological Commission - LACSC

Earth Sciences Research Journal, 2014
The Latin-American and Caribbean region is an area with a very complex tectonic setting, where stress and strain generated by the interaction of several lithospheric plates is being absorbed.
Third Latin-American Congress of Seismol Third Latin-American Congress of Seismology
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When did Latin America fall behind? : evidence from long-run international inequality [PDF]

, 2004
When did Latin America fall behind?. Has the gap between developed countries and Latin America widened over time?. This paper addresses these recurrent questions with the tools provided by the inequality literature.
Prados de la Escosura, Leandro
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A new and flexible method for constructing designs for computer experiments

, 2010
We develop a new method for constructing "good" designs for computer experiments. The method derives its power from its basic structure that builds large designs using small designs.
Bingham, Derek, Lin, C. Devon, Sitter, Randy R., Tang, Boxin   +3 more
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LiLa: Linking Latin Risorse linguistiche per il latino nel Semantic Web (AIUCD 2019)

Umanistica Digitale, 2020
The LiLa: Linking Latin project aims to build a Knowledge Base of language resources for the study of Latin (corpora, digital lexicons, natural-language-processing tools), based on the Linked Open Data paradigm.
Francesco Mambrini, Flavio Massimiliano Cecchini, Greta Franzini, Eleonora Litta, Marco Carlo Passarotti, Paolo Ruffolo   +5 more
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The Power of Unity: Collective Action and Smallholder Agricultural Performance in West Africa

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We analyze the impact of collective action through farmer‐based organizations (FBOs) on smallholders' farm performance and income inequality in Ghana, Benin, The Gambia, and Mali. We find that FBO membership increases cereal yield in Ghana and The Gambia, legume yield in Mali, ruminant numbers in Benin and The Gambia, and total farm income in ...
Emmanuel Donkor, Bright Owusu Asante, David Boansi, Victor Owusu   +3 more
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A Novel Latin Square Image Cipher

, 2012
In this paper, we introduce a symmetric-key Latin square image cipher (LSIC) for grayscale and color images. Our contributions to the image encryption community include 1) we develop new Latin square image encryption primitives including Latin Square ...
Aaronson, Anderson, Bhatnagar, Chen, Chen, Chen, Chen, Corrochano, Fu, Joseph P. Noonan, Kumar, Li, Li, Li, liang Zhu, Liao, Liu, Matoba, Pareek, Patidar, Press, Schneier, Seyedzadeh, Shannon, Solak, Sos Agaian, Stinson, Sun, Tong, Volos, Wang, Wang, Wong, Wu, Wu, Wu, Xiang, Yang, Yicong Zhou, Yue Wu, Zhang, Zhou, Zhou, Zhou, Àlvarez, Àlvarez   +45 more
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