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Information flow and the adoption of soil‐improving and water conservation measures, and household welfare: Insights from a randomized controlled trial in Uganda

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Extension services are designed to facilitate the flow of information from researchers to farmers. However, information failures continue to impede the diffusion of soil‐improving and water conservation technologies in Sub‐Saharan African countries. We use a randomized controlled trial (RCT) to examine the impact of an extension‐based campaign
Esther Gloria Mbabazi, Awudu Abdulai, Enoch M. Kikulwe, Elisabetta Gotor   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

On the Etymology of Adel [PDF]

, 2009
A light-hearted tour of the historiography of the etymology of Adel, a parish in North Leeds, resisting the twentieth-century concensus of Old English adela (‘filth, dirt, dirty place; foul filth; bilge-water’ and possibly even ‘sewer, privy’) in favour ...
Hall, Alaric
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Assessing the link between social capital and health outcomes in the Italian regions: An empirical analysis

Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract An extensive literature demonstrates a positive relationship between social capital and health. However, empirical analyses within the Italian context remain limited. This study contributes to the existing literature by expanding the empirical evidence on this topic for Italy, employing an ecological approach.
Maria Alessandra Antonelli, Giorgia Marini   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Fats, Fire and Bronze Age Funerary Rites: Organic Residue Analysis of Wide Horizontal Rim Vessels From Burial Contexts in Northwest Portugal

Archaeometry, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study presents the first GC‐MS–based analyses of wide horizontal rim vessels with well‐defined funerary contexts, from Middle Bronze Age Portugal (Quinta do Amorim 2 and Pego). Organic residues from two vessels revealed ruminant fats and plant oils, alongside molecular markers of heat exposure.
João Vinícius Back, César Oliveira, Ana M. S. Bettencourt, Hugo Aluai Sampaio, Luciano Vilas Boas, Luís Gonçalves   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

What Difference Does Language Make? Comparing Systematic Evidence Reviews of Vietnamese and English Language Literatures on Climate Change and the Health of Outdoor Workers

Area, EarlyView.
Short Abstract This paper compares two systematic literature reviews—one in English and one in Vietnamese—to examine how language shapes the production and framing of knowledge on climate change and health. It highlights significant differences in methods, assumptions and policy framings, and argues that linguistic boundaries are not just technical ...
Anh Ngoc Vu, Jonathan Rigg, Felicity Kersting, Ekaterina Tarnovskaya, Loc Duc Nguyen   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Euthyphro Dilemma, Assisted Dying, and a Virtue Ethics Approach to Autonomy

Bioethics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Euthyphro dilemma highlights that accounts of moral value which are dependent on the decisions of agents either result in arbitrary values arising from agent's decisions, or accept external reasons to morally justify the value, making the agent's decisions unnecessary for explaining the resulting value.
Thomas Donaldson
wiley   +1 more source

β3‐adrenoceptor agonism exerts lung protection in a rat model of bronchopulmonary dysplasia

British Journal of Pharmacology, EarlyView.
The β3‐adrenoceptors agonist BRL37344 promotes lung maturation, preventing the progression of experimental bronchopulmonary dysplasia. Absract Background and Purpose Bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD) affects premature newborns, particularly those receiving supplemental oxygen therapy.
Alessandro Pini, Patrizia Nardini, Virginia Zizi, Marta Molino, Maura Calvani, Francesco Carrozzo, Rachele Amato, Daniele Guasti, Denise Biagini, Fabio di Francesco, Ludovico Silvestri, Alessandra Franceschini, Daniele Bani, Elisa Imbimbo, Luca Filippi   +14 more
wiley   +1 more source

Renaming in Adoption: Exploring Name Ambivalence in Adoptive Parents' Name Stories

Child &Family Social Work, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Names are central to identity, yet their role in adoption, where identity and family dynamics are complex, remains under‐researched. This article draws on findings from a qualitative study of names and adoption in England and Wales to examine adoptive parents' decisions about the first names of their children.
Jan Flaherty, Jane Pilcher, Hannah Deakin‐Smith, Amanda Coffey   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Imitating a Cathedral, or Safeguarding Parochial Foundations? Why Establish a Mansionary Chapel in the Dioceses of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in the Sixteenth Century?

Acta Historica Universitatis Klaipedensis, 2016
A mansionary (from the Latin mansio, ‘a dwelling’) was a member of a community of four to ten secular priests governed by a provost and required to reside by and serve a chantry chapel, similar to a cathedral canon or beneficed chantry priest.
S.C. Rowell
doaj   +1 more source

San Francisco Predictable Scheduling and Fair Treatment for Formula Retail Employees Ordinance [PDF]

, 2014
Economic and labor force changes since the Great Recession of 2007 have changed the way many American workers support themselves and their families. Today, Americans who would prefer full-time stable work are more likely to work in part-time jobs, and ...
Hong van Pham, Julia Parish, Sarah Crow, Sharon Terman   +3 more
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