The palynology and stratigraphy of the Cambrian Nolichucky Shale and associated formations at Thorn Hill, Tennessee, USA [PDF]
, 2012 A detailed palynological and stratigraphic study was undertaken on the Cambrian Nolichucky Shale, Maynardville Limestone and Copper Ridge Dolomite (Conasauga Group), as exposed at Thorn Hill, northeastern Tennessee, USA.
Pedder, Brian E
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Remote sensing technology plays a crucial role in the rapid and wide-scale monitoring of water quality, which is of great significance for water pollution prevention and control. In this study, the downstream and nearshore areas of the Huaihe River Basin
Aibo Zhao +8 more
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Economics of patenting a research tool: participation and productivity [PDF]
When a new technology consists of sequences of innovations that culminate in a final consumer product, the balance between successive innovators is one of the main concerns in the design of the patent system.
Wright, Brian D., Koo, Bonwoo
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How productive is infrastructure?: new approach and evidence from rural India [PDF]
There have been competing arguments about the effect of public infrastructure on productivity in the literature. Level-based regressions generally show a much higher return to public capital than private capital, while difference-based regressions tend ...
Zhang, Xiaobo, Fan, Shenggen
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Market imperfections and land productivity in the Ethiopian Highlands: [PDF]
This study analyzes how market imperfections affect land productivity in a degraded low-potential cereal- livestock economy in the Ethiopian highlands. A wide array of variables is used to control for land quality in the analysis.
Pender, John L. +2 more
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Security analysis for agroterrorism: applying the threat, vulnerability, consequence framework to developing countries [PDF]
"We examine access to, use of, and participation in decisions on improved water supply in the Volta basin of Ghana, one of the first countries to introduce a community-based approach to rural water supply on a large scale.
Gaskell, Joanne +8 more
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Accessing other people's technology: do non-profit agencies need it? how to obtain it? [PDF]
As patents and other forms of intellectual property become more pervasive in the next generation of biotechnologies, designing polices and practices to ensure sufficient freedom to operate (i.e., the ability to practice or use an innovation) will be ...
Pardey, Philip G. +2 more
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The demand for crop genetic resources: international use of the U.S. National Plant Germplasm System [PDF]
In contrast to a perception that ex situ collections of germplasm are rarely used, this empirical case study reveals large quantities of germplasm samples distributed by the U.S.
Day-Rubenstein, K. +3 more
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Land lease markets and agricultural efficiency: theory and evidence from Ethiopia [PDF]
This paper develops a theoretical model of land leasing that includes transaction costs of enforcing labor effort, risk pooling motives and non-tradable productive inputs.
Fafchamps, Marcel, Pender, John L.
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Background: The invasive brownrat (Rattus norvegicus) and the Oriental rats (Rattus tanezumi) are common commensal murid that are important hosts for rodent-borne diseases in southeast Asia.
Qinghua Xie (759293) +11 more
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