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Agricultural extension is a key policy to accomplish sustainable agricultural development by improving farmers’ knowledge. Agricultural Extension Model Sites (AEMSs) is a new agricultural extension approach for empowering farmers in Iran.
Mohammad Shokati Amghani +2 more
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Fertility Transitions Along the Extensive and Intensive Margins [PDF]
By allowing for an extensive margin in the standard quantity-quality model, we generate new insights into fertility transitions. We test the model on Southern black women affected by a large-scale school construction program. Consistent with our model, women facing improved schooling opportunities for their children were more likely to have at least ...
Daniel Aaronson +2 more
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Southern China hosts coral communities in marginal environments that are characterized by low linear extension rates, low coral cover and/or no reef formation, thus providing natural laboratories to study coral communities with below average growth rates.
Teng Teng Yang +1 more
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For square contingency tables with ordered categories, Agresti (1984, 2002) considered the marginal cumulative logistic (ML) model, which is an extension of the marginal homogeneity (MH) model.
Kouji Tahata +2 more
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We survey the current practice of analyzing spatial extreme data, which lies at the intersection of extreme value theory and geostatistics. Characterizations of multivariate max-stable distributions typically assume specific univariate marginal ...
Daniel Cooley +6 more
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In this study, based on seismic profiles, complemented with boreholes and well logs, two types of deltas are recognized in the Paleogene Qiongdongnan Basin, namely fan deltas and braided river deltas, and their temporal–spatial evolution characteristics ...
Guangzeng Song +4 more
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Continental break‐up is an ingredient of plate tectonics and the Wilson cycle. During the evolution of the Tethyan Realm since the Paleozoic, a series of ribbon‐like (micro‐)continents are split from the Gondwana and drifted northwards to the Eurasian ...
Shuting Yang +4 more
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Extensions of the locational marginal price theory in evolving power systems: A review
The locational marginal price (LMP) theory is the foundation of nowadays electricity markets. With the rapid growth of intermittent renewable generation, new features are emerging in power systems, such as the uncertainty of power supply, the scarcity of
Zhenfei Tan +3 more
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Macroeconomics of Extensive Margins: A Simple Model [PDF]
How do monopolistically competitive industries react to shocks in the context of a New Keynesian macro model? I bridge macroeconomics and trade theory by considering market dynamics. I use an analytically tractable closed-economy model with endogenous entry of firms and show the implications of markets structure for the transmission of real shocks on ...
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The dataset explicates farmer׳s perceptions about fertilizer subsidy policy in Bangladesh and the factors that affect farm level fertilizer usage. Primary data were collected from 300 farm households from three regions of the country belonging to four ...
Mahmuda Nasrin +2 more
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