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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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LAW, SCIENCE, AND POLITICS

Revista de Direito Brasileira
Law, science, and politics belong together because they are three attributes of the same reality. Science begins in the accurate knowledge of reality. Since both law and politics seek (or ought to seek) justice, the science of law and the science of politics must always recur to the science of justice itself.
openaire   +2 more sources

Adam Smith. Skeptical Newtonianism, Disenchanted Republicanism, and the Birth of Social Science [PDF]

, 1987
Both Adam Smith's epistemology and his politics head to a stalemate. The former is under the opposing pulls of an essentialist ideal of knowledge and of a pragmatist approach to the history of science. The latter still tries to provide a foundation for a
Cremaschi, Sergio Volodia Marcello
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Cost Pass‐Through in Crisis: Evidence From the German Malt‐Beer Supply Chain

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
Abstract Global agri‐food supply chains are increasingly exposed to geopolitical shocks, climate volatility, and market consolidation, factors that disrupt traditional price relationships and reshape market power dynamics. Nowhere is this more visible than in the brewing sector, where agricultural raw materials meet complex industrial processing and ...
Nikolas Bublik, Lukáš Čechura
wiley   +1 more source

Market‐Based Nutrition Regulation and Adult BMI Dynamics in Latin America

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Market‐based nutrition policies, including interpretative labeling systems and taxes on sugar‐sweetened beverages (SSBs), have been widely adopted across Latin America to influence dietary choices and address rising obesity rates. While prior research documents change in food purchasing and product reformulation following these policies ...
Emiliano Lopez Barrera, Grace Melo
wiley   +1 more source

The Role of the Federal Supreme Court in Ensuring the Supremacy of Moral Custom and Islamic Law in Iraq [PDF]

International Journal of Ethics and Society
Introduction: The Federal Supreme Court in Iraq plays an important role in ensuring the superiority of moral custom and Islamic Sharia through annulment lawsuits due to objections against the constitution.
Adnan Ali Majid Aljber, Mohammad Javaheri Tehrani, Seyyed Mojtaba Vaezi, Nader Mardani   +3 more
doaj  

A hybrid monthly electricity demand forecasting model combining an Hodrick-Prescott filter, recurrent neural networks, and autoregressive integrated moving average

Energy and AI
The coexistence of growth trends and seasonal fluctuations in monthly electricity demand presents significant forecasting challenges. Therefore, this study proposes a univariate time series forecasting approach that applies the Hodrick-Prescott (HP ...
Zhenyu Su, Juan Zhang, Zhehan Yang, Leihao Ma   +3 more
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Science, Politics, and Values: The Politicization of Professional Practice Guidelines [PDF]

, 2009
The Connecticut Attorney General’s recent allegations that the Infectious Disease Society of America violated antitrust law through its treatment guidelines for Lyme disease were neither based in sound science or appropriate legal judgment.
Gostin, Lawrence O., Kraemer, John D.
core   +1 more source

Unity in diversity as Europe's vocation and conflicts law as Europe's constitutional form. IHS Political Science Series 122, December 2010 [PDF]

, 2010
"Unity in Diversity" was the fortunate motto of the otherwise unfortunate Draft Constitutional Treaty. The motto did not make it into the Treaty of Lisbon.
Joerges., Christian
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Innovative Artificial Intelligence‐Assisted Systems for Social Science Research: Architecture Design and Applied Practice

AI &Innovation, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The rapid advancement of large language model (LLM) technology is profoundly transforming the practice of social science research. Scholarly discussions on Artificial Intelligence (AI)'s role in social science research can be organised into three levels: AI as a research tool, AI as a methodological infrastructure and AI as a quasi‐cognitive ...
Jie Xiong
wiley   +1 more source