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Awareness, Access and Utilization of Certified Seeds by Rice Farmers in Ebonyi State

Journal of Agricultural Extension, 2023
The study assessed the awareness, access and utilization of certified seeds by rice farmers in Ebonyi State. One hundred and Twenty respondents were selected for the study using a multi-stage random sampling procedure.
Chibuzo Uzoma Izuogu, Jude Nwokpoku, Martha Akunna Orugbala, Gillian Chidozie Azuamairo, Loveday Chukwudi Njoku, Paul Inyang, Gabriel Daniel Agou , Sikiru Olesin-Ibrahim , Ikechukwu Chinaka   +8 more
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Mobile Phones and Mental Well-Being: Initial Evidence Suggesting the Importance of Staying Connected to Family in Rural, Remote Communities in Uganda. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2017
Due to the ubiquity of mobile phones around the globe, studies are beginning to analyze their influence on health. Prior work from developed countries highlights negative mental health outcomes related to overuse of mobile phones.
Amber L Pearson, Elizabeth Mack, Judith Namanya   +2 more
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The Effect of Home-Ownership on Labour Mobility in the Netherlands [PDF]

Journal of Urban Economics, 2004
In various macro-studies, home-ownership is found to hamper job mobility and toincrease unemployment. This paper addresses similar issues, but uses a microeconometric framework where both individual job mobility, as well as the probability of being homeowner are modeled simultaneously.
M. van Leuvensteijn, P. Koning
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Measuring under-5 mortality and fertility through mobile phone surveys: an assessment of selection bias in 34 low-income and middle-income countries

BMJ Open, 2023
Objectives This study aims to assess sample selection bias in mobile phone survey estimates of fertility and under-5 mortality.Design With data from the Demographic and Health Surveys, we use logistic regressions to identify sociodemographic correlates ...
Georges Reniers, Ololade Julius Baruwa, Bruno Masquelier, David A Sánchez-Páez, Ashira Menashe-Oren   +4 more
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The impact of biases in mobile phone ownership on estimates of human mobility [PDF]

Journal of The Royal Society Interface, 2013
Mobile phone data are increasingly being used to quantify the movements of human populations for a wide range of social, scientific and public health research. However, making population-level inferences using these data is complicated by differential ownership of phones among different demographic groups that may exhibit variable mobility.
Wesolowski, A, Eagle, N, Noor, A, Snow, R, Buckee, C   +4 more
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Effects of Screen Contact with Digital Media on Perceived Control and Psychological Ownership

Maketingu Janaru, 2023
With the spread of mobile payment services, reward point systems have been frequently promoted in recent years. Therefore, the number of short-term users who enroll for the purpose of earning reward points is increasing, although the low retention rate ...
Soonho Kwon, Hisashi Kawamata, Takanori Suda   +2 more
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The distributed ownership of on-demand mobility service

International Journal of Transportation Science and Technology, 2023
Mobility as a service (MaaS) is an innovative and value-laden method to operate on-demand mobility services within the existing transport infrastructures. A big challenge for the transport system is that the transport infrastructure cannot be restructured as quickly as a digital platform like cloud computing infrastructure services, which is a ...
Shuangqing Gong, Mohammad Hossein Chinaei, Fengji Luo, Taha Hossein Rashidi   +3 more
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Community ownership in Glasgow: the devolution of ownership and control, or a centralizing process [PDF]

, 2007
The largest housing stock transfer in Europe, the 2003 Glasgow transfer promises to ‘empower’ tenants by devolving ownership and control from the state to local communities.
Kim McKee, McKee, K., McKee, Kim, McKee, Kim; id_orcid   +3 more
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Mobile information –seeking behavior: A comparative study

Cybrarians Journal, 2020
The rapid growth of mobile device ownership among college students has greatly changed academic libraries to reconsider their services profiles. In the recent research project conducted at the university of Illinois ,mobile device ownership among ...
Yusuf Saeed
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Are Mobile Phone Ownership and Age of Acquisition Associated with Child Adjustment? A 5-Year Prospective Study Among Low-Income Latinx Children

Child Development, 2022
This prospective, longitudinal study examined associations between whether and when children first acquire a mobile phone and their adjustment measures, among low-income Latinx children. Children (N=263; 55% female; baseline Mage = 9.5) and their parents
Xiaoran Sun, K. Haydel, Donna Matheson, M. Desai, T. Robinson   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source