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Schooling, Local Knowledge and Working Memory: A Study among Three Contemporary Hunter-Gatherer Societies.

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2016
Researchers have analysed whether school and local knowledge complement or substitute each other, but have paid less attention to whether those two learning models use different cognitive strategies.
Victoria Reyes-García   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Consumer Preferences for Craft Beer: The Interplay of Localness and Advertising Language

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study explores the influence of the language of the label, origin of production, and origin of brewing ingredients on Croatian consumers' preferences and willingness to pay for organic craft beer. Employing an online survey and a choice experiment among 223 Croatian alcohol consumers, we find that while there's a willingness to pay a ...
Marija Cerjak   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Co-managing complex social-ecological systems in Tanzania : the case of Lake Jipe wetland [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
It has been conventional among co-management scientists to view social-ecological systems and actors and institutions found in these systems monolithically.
Mahonge, C.P.I.
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Local Knowledge-based Citizenship Learning Model to Increase Ecological Awareness in the Indonesia-Malaysia Border Area

open access: yesJurnal Kewarganegaraan
High gap between ecological knowledge and pro-environmental action remains a critical challenge for sustainability, particularly in ecologically sensitive border regions.
Moad   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

What is a prior and how to derive one? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Application of Bayesian statistics requires eliciting prior distributions, an important first step that is often ignored. The difficulty in prior elicitation is largely due to the vague definition of the prior.
Qian, Song S.
core   +1 more source

Impact of Digital Ability and Rice Technology Adoption on Rice Farming Performance in Benin

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines the combined effects of digital ability and the adoption of various rice technologies among smallholder rice farmers, using GPS‐spatially matched data sources that include household surveys and a general census of rice value chain actors in Benin.
Landry Bellarmin Kassa, Takeshi Sakurai
wiley   +1 more source

Learning ecosystem complexity [Elektronisk resurs] : A study on small-scale fishers’ ecological knowledge generation

open access: yes, 2016
Small-scale fisheries are learning contexts of importance for generating, transferring, and updating ecological knowledge of natural environments through everyday work practices.
Lundholm, Cecilia,   +4 more
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Towards Semantic Data Management in LifeWatch Italy: the Phytoplankton Study Case [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
LifeWatch Italy, the Italian node of LifeWatch-ERIC, has promoted and stimulated the debate on the use of semantic in the biodiversity data management.
Oggioni, Alessandro   +6 more
core   +1 more source

Value of Information of Improved Traceability in Fresh Produce Markets

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Traceability plays an important role in promoting a safe food supply by fostering transparent information exchange along the food supply chain. New technological innovations have the potential to improve traceability outcomes, as greater transparency along the food supply chain can aid in pinpointing precise origins of the contamination ...
Kelsey Vourazeris   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Why Bayesian inference? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
The scientific methodology of mathematical models and their credibility to form the basis of public policy decisions have been frequently challenged.
Arhonditsis, George
core   +1 more source

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