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Investment in preventive health needs to be seen as a driver of economic development. [PDF]

PLoS Med
Colombo F, Vuik S, Devaux M, Cecchini M.
europepmc   +1 more source

Deforestation and Efficiency: Insights From Forest Transition in the Brazilian Cerrado

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper estimates technical efficiency (TE) and environmental efficiency (EE) of agricultural production at the municipal level of the Brazilian Cerrado in 2006 and 2017, and investigates their underlying mechanisms in relation to forest transition theory.
Ricardo Muniz Simões, Cassiano Bragagnolo, Humberto Francisco Silva Spolador   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The relationship between involvement in group extreme conditioning program training and PERMA: the mediating role of social capital. [PDF]

Front Psychol
Ntovoli A, Stavropoulou G, Anagnostou G, Papacosta E, Papadopoulou S, Giaginis C, Alexandris K.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Blockchain‐Based Smart Contracts in US Specialty Crop Marketing: Grower Preferences and Adoption Potential

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Using survey and discrete choice experiment data, we examined US specialty crop growers' preferences for marketing contract attributes in the context of emerging blockchain‐based technologies and expanding traceability initiatives. Results show that farmers preferred traditional written contracts but might be willing to accept digital ...
Elizabeth Canales, Alba J. Collart, Matthew G. Interis, Esther Mmenaa Agyemang‐Duah   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The influence of family cultural capital on student learning engagement: a study on the mediating role of parental educational involvement. [PDF]

Front Psychol
Zang J, Chen P.
europepmc   +1 more source

From continuous to interruptible distillation: Flexible electric heating column architecture with fast start‐up

AIChE Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Electrification of distillation offers a promising route to reducing scope‐1 emissions from one of the chemical industry's most energy‐intensive unit operations. However, conventional adiabatic columns are dynamically inflexible: Long, energy‐intensive start‐ups make shutdown and restart impractical under variable electricity prices and ...
Samuel Mercer, Michael Baldea
wiley   +1 more source

Rethinking social capital in wildfire resilience: the case of central Portugal. [PDF]

Disasters
Fachada C, Mendes JM.
europepmc   +1 more source

THE ROLE OF PHYSICAL CAPITAL ASSETS IN YOUNG GIRLS' AND BOYS' MORTALITY AND GROWTH IN LOW- AND MIDDLE-INCOME COUNTRIES. [PDF]

Monogr Soc Res Child Dev, 2016
Bradley RH, Putnick DL.
europepmc   +1 more source

Asking the 5 W's for designing next‐generation bioprocessing

AIChE Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Biotechnology is expanding beyond traditional, centralized fermentation and toward next‐generation bioprocessing paradigms that emphasize flexible deployment outside the laboratory with application‐specific performance. However, many bioprocesses fail to translate beyond proof‐of‐concept into industrially viable systems because early design ...
Sangdo Yook, Karoline Maria Vieira Nogueira, Raj Sukumar, Jenna Miller, Hal S. Alper   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Research on the correlation between family endowment factors and adolescents' physical fitness behaviors. [PDF]

BMC Public Health
Cheng W, Zhou Y, Zhang J.
europepmc   +1 more source