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Why Didn't I Get a Payout? Understanding Farmer Choices, Index Insurance, and Basis Risk
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Index insurance, while heralded as a potential solution to alleviate poverty and food insecurity among agricultural households, has its own set of challenges, notably basis risk. Basis risk is the discrepancy between the insurance payout and losses incurred, posing a significant deterrent to the adoption of index insurance.
S. Lucille Blakeley +4 more
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Advanced Intelligent Systems, Volume 7, Issue 3, March 2025.This article reviews the current state of bioinspired soft robotics. The article discusses soft actuators, soft sensors, materials selection, and control methods used in bioinspired soft robotics. It also highlights the challenges and future prospects of this field.
Abhirup Sarker +2 more
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Reconceptualizing cultural literacy as a dialogic practice
London Review of Education, 2019 Culture and heritage are plural and fluid, continually co-created through interaction between people. However, traditional monologic models of cultural literacy reflect a one-way transmission of static cultural knowledge.
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Rivista di Estetica, 2010 Whereas memory focus mostly on the elements of continuity, in order to grant people’s survival, history individuates, above all, the breaking lines, thus opposing the “pitiful religion” that, by tracing Auschwitz’s fracture back to the experienced ...
Georges Bensoussan
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Dimensions of the AI Divide: Digital Inequality and Psychological Consequences
AI &Innovation, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Artificial intelligence (AI) has become a foundational component of contemporary social, economic, and political life. Yet, the ways in which AI reshapes patterns of exclusion beyond questions of access and technical capability remain insufficiently theorized.
Christos Papaioannou
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‘Positive recognition’ as a preventive approach in child and youth welfare services
International Journal of Social Pedagogy, 2018 The public welfare services provided to children and young people in Finland have proved insufficient and costly. Some concerns have also been voiced about the ways in which measures intended as supportive end up labelling their recipients as ‘problem ...
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People, Contexts, Cultures: for a Pedagogy of Co-belonging
Formazione & insegnamento, 2022 Contemporary society, even in the persistence of the current pandemic situation, highlights very complex aspects that move between risks and possibilities: the risk of an implosion and regression in human relations as well as with other living systems, but also the possibility of seeking new alliance practices, at a local level as well as in a ...
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American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.Abstract This study develops and empirically estimates a structural framework to decompose the causal pathways of multilevel behavioral interventions targeting adolescent health behaviors. We apply this framework to the Kids SIPsmartER (KSS) program, a 6‐month, school‐based intervention evaluated through a clustered randomized controlled trial in rural
Naveen Abedin +5 more
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American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.Abstract This study used photovoice methodology to explore Asian Americans' perspectives on the root causes and protective factors of firearm violence in their communities. Photovoice provided a participatory platform for community members to document lived experiences and identify priorities for change.
Tsu‐Yin Wu +4 more
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THE EMERGENCE OF "MOVEMENT PEDAGOGY" OF THE PEOPLE AFFECTED BY DAMS
Reflexão & Ação, 2016 This text is part of a master's dissertation research defended in the Graduate Education Program of the UFPB. This research had a qualitative approach involving bibliographic research, documentary and field. The locus of the research was the municipality of Tucuruí, in the State of Pará, where was built the hydropower's Tucuruí, one of the biggest ...
Sérgio Roberto Moraes Corrêa +1 more
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