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Female Education and Child Marriage
Review of Development Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We examine why the education of young girls has historically lagged behind that of young boys across different countries. Using data from 105 countries during 1990–2020, we discover some evidence that is consistent with the idea that parents in many traditional societies reduce investments in the primary schooling of their daughters after they
Hasan A. Faruq
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Spatial and temporal scales in plant phenotyping for crop water stress assessment: A review
The Plant Phenome Journal, Volume 9, Issue 1, December 2026.Abstract Water stress is a major limiting factor for crop productivity worldwide, and its impacts are intensifying due to climate variability and increasing water scarcity. This review focuses on the spatial and temporal scales in plant phenotyping as a critical approach to improving crop water‐stress assessment and supporting precision water ...
Daniel Kingsley Cudjoe +3 more
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A globally convergent flow for computing the best low rank approximation of a matrix
, 2007 We work in the space of $m$-by-$n$ real matrices with the Frobenius inner product. Consider the following Problem: Given an m-by-n real matrix A and a positive integer k, find the m-by-n matrix with rank k that is closest to A.
Driessel, Kenneth R.
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The Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering, Volume 104, Issue 4, Page 1656-1676, April 2026.Abstract Advancements in biofuel production technologies are essential for reducing global dependence on fossil fuels and addressing their overexploitation. Many valuable components of biomass, such as cellulose, hemicellulose, and lignin, remain underused in traditional biorefineries, which typically rely on a single feedstock to produce a primary ...
Marcos Paulo Patta Granado +5 more
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Journal of Genetic Counseling, Volume 35, Issue 2, April 2026.Abstract Despite significant growth of the genetic counseling profession worldwide, there are differences between genetic counseling training programs (GCPs), professional standards, and professional regulation. Certification of genetic counselors (GCs) in Canada was previously managed by the Certification Board of the Canadian Association of Genetic ...
Angela Krutish +2 more
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A Darker Side to Decentralized Banks: Market Power and Credit Rationing in SME Lending [PDF]
We use loan-level data to study how the organizational structure of banks impacts small business lending. We find that decentralized banks ? where branch managers have greater autonomy over lending decisions ?
Ramana Nanda, Rodrigo Canales
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CRISPR/Cas Genome Editing and Its Applications in Cereal Crop Improvement
Plant-Environment Interactions, Volume 7, Issue 2, April 2026.ABSTRACT CRISPR/Cas‐based genome editing has emerged as a transformative tool for precise genetic improvement of cereal crops. Recent advances in CRISPR technologies, including Cas9, Cas12, Cas13, base editing, and prime editing, have enabled targeted modification of genes and regulatory elements controlling yield, stress tolerance, and grain ...
Sirisha Kaniganti +12 more
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International Journal of Mental Health Nursing, Volume 35, Issue 2, April 2026.ABSTRACT Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is widely presented as an objective psychiatric diagnosis describing emotional and relational distress. However, feminist, decolonial, neurodiversity and lived experience‐led scholarship demonstrates that BPD emerged within colonial, cisheteronormative, misogynist and neuronormative epistemologies that ...
Laurence Cobbaert +3 more
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