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One Welfare

Considering the interconnections between human well-being, animal welfare, and the environment, this study aimed to investigate the impacts of drought and the COVID-19 pandemic on small-scale goat farmers' well-being and their perception of goats' welfare following the One Welfare framework.
Larrondo, Cristian||, Guevara, Raúl David||, Calderón-Amor, Javiera||, Muñoz, Carolina, Cáceres, Carolina, Alvarado, Mabeley, Fresno, Marcela||, Di Pillo, Francisca||   +7 more
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Trade Restrictiveness and Deadweight Losses from U.S. Tariffs, 1859-1961 [PDF]

This paper calculates the Anderson-Neary (2005) trade restrictiveness index (TRI) for the United States using nearly a century of data. The results show that the standard import-weighted average tariff understates the TRI, defined as the uniform tariff ...
Douglas A. Irwin
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Etiology of childhood diarrhoea among under five children and molecular analysis of antibiotic resistance in isolated enteric bacterial pathogens from a tertiary care hospital, Eastern Odisha, India

BMC Infectious Diseases, 2019
Background Although, India has made steady progress in reducing deaths in children younger than 5 years, the proportional mortality accounted by diarrhoeal diseases still remains high.
Sonam S. Moharana, Rakesh K. Panda, Muktikesh Dash, Nirupama Chayani, Priyanka Bokade, Sanghamitra Pati, Debdutta Bhattacharya   +6 more
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Can a Preferential Trade Agreement Benefit Neighbor Countries without Compensating Them? [PDF]

PTAs are generally negotiated without any tariff concessions or transfers to non-member countries. Can such a PTA benefit the neighbors’ welfare? In a two-good competitive equilibrium model in the absence of an entrepot, a PTA without concessions to the ...
Koichi Hamada, Koji Shimomura, Masahiro Endoh   +2 more
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Computing Stable Coalitions: Approximation Algorithms for Reward Sharing

, 2015
Consider a setting where selfish agents are to be assigned to coalitions or projects from a fixed set P. Each project k is characterized by a valuation function; v_k(S) is the value generated by a set S of agents working on project k.
B Lehmann, C Bejan, G Chalkiadakis, Kshipra Bhawalkar, M Feldman, M Hoefer, R Meir, RB Myerson, S Dobzinski, T Roughgarden, U Feige, X Deng, Y Bachrach, Y Bachrach, Y Bachrach   +14 more
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Final Goods Substitutability and Economic Growth [PDF]

In this paper, I investigate the effect of substitutability among final goods on welfare growth under the environment that productivity growth in each industry is not independent of one another.
Koki Oikawa
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Human-computer interactions with farm animals—enhancing welfare through precision livestock farming and artificial intelligence

Frontiers in Veterinary Science
While user-centered design approaches stemming from the human-computer interaction (HCI) field have notably improved the welfare of companion, service, and zoo animals, their application in farm animal settings remains limited.
Suresh Neethirajan, Stacey Scott, Clara Mancini, Xavier Boivin, Elizabeth Strand   +4 more
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The Measurement of Social Welfare [PDF]

This paper derives a basic formula for the measure of social welfare, a second order approximation to the difference of the value of the Bergson-Samuelson social welfare function between the socially optimal resource allocation and the one in the present
Atsushi Tsuneki
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Mule trains to mountain roads: the role of working mules in supporting resilient communities in the Himalayas

Frontiers in Veterinary Science
Working equids play a central role in mountainous communities, but their work often goes unnoticed by the wider world, with sparse documentation of their role, value, or welfare – a state which often extends to their human counterparts.
Laura M. Kubasiewicz, Tamlin Watson, Sajana Thapa, Caroline Nye, Natasha Chamberlain   +4 more
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Examination of the impact and effectiveness of herd health and welfare assessment in im-proving animal welfare on organic dairy farms, using qualitative interviews. [PDF]

, 2006
During winter 2002-03, 15 organic dairy farms in SW England participated in a herd health and welfare assessment and benchmarking study. A second assessment was carried out on 14 of the original 15 farms and on 14 new farms during winter 2003-04.
Burke, Dr J, Roderick, Dr S
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