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How Video‐Based Information Affects Farmers' Willingness to Pay for Drone Services
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Professional service for digital technology like agricultural drones lowers transaction costs and scope thresholds for smallholders. Meanwhile, perceptual adoption barriers remain underexplored. We conduct a two‐stage choice experiment with a randomized video‐based information treatment among 384 Chinese crop farmers to measure its effect on ...
Hua Zhang +4 more
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Exploring Diverse Elementary Students' Literacy Development in a Literacy Club
, 2021 This study explored diverse students’ literacy development in Grades 3–5 in a literacy club. It also served as a self-study to examine how I developed and facilitated this literacy club.
Leibu, Beth
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study investigates the financial literacy (FL) of Swedish farmers, its linkages to farmer characteristics, management accounting practices and farm outcomes by surveying Swedish Farm Accountancy Data Network farmers. Using item response theory, we expand the existing FL measurement specifically to the farming context, assess measurement ...
Uliana Gottlieb, Helena Hansson
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FACETSThe United Nations Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development (2021–2030) emphasizes advancing our understanding of the ocean and promoting sustainable practices to ensure ocean health and interconnected well-being.
Jen McRuer, Diz L. Glithero
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The use of metadiscourse in academic writing by Malaysian first-year ESL doctoral students
Indonesian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2020 Metadiscourse refers to linguistic items, which functions to establish a connection with imagined readers of a text (Hyland, 2004). The use of metadiscourse has received much attention in various contexts, yet, little works are focusing on disciplinary ...
Yueh Yea Lo, Juliana Othman, Jia Wei Lim
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Bridging the gap between theory, research and practice of information literacy.
, 2009 Welcome to the Summer issue of JIL 2009. This is a rather special issue for a number of reasons. First, the journal’s structure has been revised to reflect the multifaceted nature of information literacy and enable the examination of the diverse ...
Andretta, Susie
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A Skills Gap Analysis of Farmer Directors of US Farmer Cooperatives
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Boards of directors are vital to firm performance and are an integral part of the decision‐making process of any business. Several studies have been conducted that observe corporate or nonprofit board characteristics, skills, and the board's connection to firm performance.
Jody S. Herchenbach +5 more
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Ohio Literacy Resource Center enhancing adult literacy in Ohio.
, 1999 Title from PDF p. [1] (viewed on Sept. 23, 2010).; "Sponsored by: Ohio Department of Education, Division [sic] of Career-Technical and Adult Education [and] U.S. Department of Education, National Institute for Literacy."; Brochure; intended to be printed
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Health in the 'hidden population' of people with low literacy. A systematic review of the literature [PDF]
, 2010 Background: Much of the evidence of an association between low functional or health literacy and poor health comes from studies that include people who have various cognitive difficulties or who do not speak the dominant language of their society.
Brian Williams +16 more
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Despite the broad focus on necessity‐ and opportunity‐driven entrepreneurship in research and policy, the entrepreneurial dichotomy within the agribusiness context has not been adequately addressed. This study contributes to closing this knowledge gap by examining youth's perceptions of agribusiness through the lens of the push‐pull motivation
Cool Dady Mangole +6 more
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