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A metafrontier approach to measuring technical efficiencies across the UK dairy sector [PDF]

A regional approach is applied to measure technical efficiencies on dairy farms which employs the deterministic metafrontier approach. We construct six super regions for the UK, i.e.
Revoredo-Giha, Cesar, Sauer, Johannes, Barnes, Andrew P.   +2 more
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Disasters, Dictators, and Donors: The Impact of Foreign Aid on Economic Activity (Mis)Reporting

Review of Development Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines how governments manipulate economic data to secure more foreign disaster aid. By using nighttime lighting as a reliable measure of economic activity, we make two key findings: (1) foreign disaster aid is positively linked to a country's understatement of its gross domestic product, indicating a deliberate strategy to ...
M. Martin Boyer, J. Bradley Karl, Charles M. Nyce   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Does growing atmospheric CO₂ explain increasing carbon sink in a boreal coniferous forest? [PDF]

Glob Chang Biol, 2022
Launiainen S, Katul GG, Leppä K, Kolari P, Aslan T, Grönholm T, Korhonen L, Mammarella I, Vesala T.   +8 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Does Aid Harm or Benefit Institutional Quality? Time Heals All Wounds

Review of Development Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Previous research has found conflicting results regarding the effect of aid on the quality of institutions, with some studies finding a positive relationship, whereas others finding a negative one. In this paper, we try to reconcile these results.
Michael Chletsos, Sofia Tsarsitalidou
wiley   +1 more source

Correction: Sczelecki, S.; Pitman, J.L. The Validation of a Precursor Lesion of Epithelial Ovarian Cancer in <i>Fancd2</i>-KO Mice. <i>Cancers</i> 2023, <i>15</i>, 2595. [PDF]

Cancers (Basel)
Sczelecki S, Pitman JL.
europepmc   +1 more source

Total RNA sequencing reveals multilevel microbial community changes and functional responses to wood ash application in agricultural and forest soil. [PDF]

FEMS Microbiol Ecol, 2020
Bang-Andreasen T, Anwar MZ, Lanzén A, Kjøller R, Rønn R, Ekelund F, Jacobsen CS.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Geopolitical Risk and Military Spending: Reassessing Specification and Measurement

Scottish Journal of Political Economy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Tran and Vo analysed English‐language‐based geopolitical risk (GPR) indices and argued that local GPR dominates global GPR in explaining military spending worldwide. We revisit this claim by addressing limitations in their empirical design and measurement.
Ngoc Duc Lang, Vinh The Nguyen, Nam Thanh Vu   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Laplace Transform-Based Nonparametric Test of Exponentiality against DMRL class with preservation under the Homogeneous Poisson Shock Model and applications in survival analysis and reliability. [PDF]

PLoS One
El-Atfy ES, Gadallah AM, Alsahangiti AM, Balogun OS, Alam FMA, Bakr ME.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Bruce Pitman

, 1988
Bruce Pitman, holding a teddy bear to his face and reading the Wall Street Journal, at Shoup Hall during an overnight S.A.S ...
D. Moyer
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Physiological and anatomical determinants of placental drug transfer

The Journal of Physiology, EarlyView.
Abstract figure legend Fetal exposure to pharmaceuticals and their subsequent clearance back to the maternal circulation are governed by placental transfer. Passive diffusion down a maternal‐to‐fetal concentration gradient is the primary route of fetal drug exposure, with specific compounds undergoing transporter‐mediated transfer.
Rohan M. Lewis, Anandita Umapathy, Jane K. Cleal, Bram G. Sengers   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source