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BEAR IN POLITICAL DISCOURSE

open access: yesВестник Кемеровского государственного университета, 2015
The article is devoted to the analysis of the functioning of the “bear” lexeme in modern mass media. In the modern Russian society the mass media discourse is closely interwoven with that of politics. Therefore, the study on the usage of the word “a bear”
J. N. Mikhailova
doaj  

Crop Insurance Design and On‐Farm Risk Adaptation

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The United States spends billions annually on crop insurance premium subsidies, yet the prevailing distance‐based guarantee design unintentionally rewards risk‐taking by linking subsidies to yield variability. We consider a simple redesign: define guarantees in terms of probability so that coverage reflects a consistent likelihood of indemnity.
Gerald Van Tassell, Alan P. Ker
wiley   +1 more source

IRONIC METAPHORS IN POLITICAL DISCOURSE

open access: yesRussian journal of linguistics: Vestnik RUDN, 2018
The article is aimed at revealing the current trends in the usage of ironic metaphors in Russian, British and American political discourse. Given the diversity of political genres, which makes it difficult to classify them, the article draws on the ...
Anna A Gornostaeva
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The Cost of a Nutritious Diet in Cafeterias: Evidence From US Military Dining Facilities

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Providing nutritious meals in institutional settings with financial constraints, such as military dining facilities, is challenging. The US Department of War (DoW) and US Department of Agriculture (USDA) collaborated to modernize the Basic Daily Food Allowance (BDFA) using an optimization model that incorporates service members' consumption ...
Linlin Fan   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Ghardhandha: a neglected political discourse

open access: yesGlobe, 2018
In Nepal, women’s political representation became an immense human-rights based discourse in the aftermath of the Maoist insurgency (1996-2006). Although the importance of women’s representation in mainstream politics was better realized after the ...
Meena Gurung
doaj   +1 more source

On the Economics of US Agricultural Policy

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper presents an economic analysis of US agricultural policy, building on a modified version of Gardner's efficient redistribution. We argue that agricultural policy is motivated as an attempt to implement an efficient redistribution scheme that redistributes income toward farmers who, as a group, have been adversely affected by ...
Jean‐Paul Chavas
wiley   +1 more source

Drivers of Precision Agriculture Adoption in Italian Viticulture

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines the main drivers influencing the adoption of two types of precision farming technologies in the viticultural sector: Decision Support Systems (DSSs) and Variable Rate Technologies (VRTs). We apply a partial proportional odds model and find that socio‐demographic characteristics are not significant determinants of adoption ...
Olimpia Fontana   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Cross-Linguistic Stylistic Fusion: How English Political Discourse Shapes Russian Political Science Professionals

open access: yesДискурс профессиональной коммуникации
The pervasive impact of the English language on global linguistic landscapes is undeniable, with Russian being no exception to this trend. This study explores the extent to which English has influenced Russian-language political discourse, particularly ...
S. S. Polskaya, E. M. Kirsanova
doaj   +1 more source

Features of political discourse In Russian language

open access: yesالأستاذ, 2016
    Political discourse is a complex object of studying, "it is the intersection of different fields like: political science, social psychology, linguistics.
Dr.Ghada Tariq Sabri
doaj   +1 more source

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