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The Power of Unity: Collective Action and Smallholder Agricultural Performance in West Africa
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We analyze the impact of collective action through farmer‐based organizations (FBOs) on smallholders' farm performance and income inequality in Ghana, Benin, The Gambia, and Mali. We find that FBO membership increases cereal yield in Ghana and The Gambia, legume yield in Mali, ruminant numbers in Benin and The Gambia, and total farm income in ...
Emmanuel Donkor +3 more
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Data-Driven Maintaining: The Role of the Party and Data Maintenance in the US Context
Media and CommunicationPolitical campaigning in the US is unique in the global context for its lack of attention to the role of the party, largely due to the centrality and power of campaigns.
Jessica Baldwin-Philippi
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Expanding boundaries: Nongovernmental organizations as supply chain members
Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene, 2016 Using a social movement perspective, we propose a framework that includes nonprofit actors as members of supply chains in a context that we call sustainable supply chain facilitation, particularly within multi-stakeholder supply chain sustainability ...
David G. Hyatt, Jonathan L. Johnson
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Is Precision Agriculture Technology Adoption Persistently Overestimated?
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Precision agriculture is sometimes assumed to diffuse steadily over time, and industry planning frequently extrapolates early adoption trends forward. This study evaluates the accuracy of such expectations by comparing agricultural input dealers' forecasts of future service offerings with the actual levels of offerings that dealerships ...
Trey Malone +5 more
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Regulation and the Provision of Quality to Heterogenous Consumers: The Case of Prospective Pricing of Medical Services [PDF]
This gaper analyzes the welfare implications of fixed price regulation in a model in which consumers are heterogeneous and a firm can endogenously quality discriminate.
Paul J. Gertler, Robin Allen
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Advanced Intelligent Discovery, EarlyView.A low‐cost, self‐driving laboratory is developed to democratize autonomous materials discovery. Using this "frugal twin" hardware architecture with Bayesian optimization, the platform rapidly converges to target lower critical solution temperature (LCST) values while self‐correcting from off‐target experiments, demonstrating an accessible route to data‐
Guoyue Xu, Renzheng Zhang, Tengfei Luo
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, 2013 In this paper we investigate whether or not recent initiatives taken by governments and international organizations to come up with indicators of Subjective Well Being (SWB) to inform policy makers go in the same direction as citizens expectations on ...
Liberini, Federica +2 more
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Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.Physics‐Informed Neural Networks (PINNs) provide a framework for integrating physical laws with data. However, their application to Prognostics and Health Management (PHM) remains constrained by the limited uncertainty quantification (UQ) capabilities.
Ibai Ramirez +4 more
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A construção da rede sindical rural entre os PCs de Itália e Brasil (1955-1965)
Nuevo mundo - Mundos Nuevos, 2016 The literature about political history has become recently focused on concrete experiences and activities of groups and agents. Since the late 1920s, the Soviet Union, through its Communist Party and Communist International (Comintern), created various ...
Leonardo Soares dos Santos
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Party Organization, 1898 [PDF]
, 2002 Party is as old as politics, and the operation of party in working the machinery of government is seen in all countries having free institutions; but of party as an external authority, expressing its determinations through its own peculiar organs, the United States as yet offers to the world the only distinct example, although tendencies in that ...
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