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Book Review: Virginie Rey, Mediating Museums: Exhibiting Material Culture in Tunisia (1881-2016)

open access: yesMuseum & Society, 2022
Review of a 2019 book on the history of Tunisian museums since the 19th century. The book covers public and private institutions since the French protectorate, describing how political and cultural changes affected exhibition methods and ...
Amy Levin
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Competition Policy and Agribusiness in the Biden Administration

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Biden Administration pursued a set of ambitious competition policy initiatives in agriculture and agribusiness, primarily aimed at livestock and poultry supply chains, farm inputs, and food retailing. The initiatives included expanded antitrust enforcement; new US Department of Agriculture (USDA) contract regulations requiring poultry ...
James M. MacDonald
wiley   +1 more source

Priorities of the Policy of Women's Political Involvement in Local Self-Governance

open access: yesBanber Erevani Hamalsarani. Sots'iologia, 2016
Despite being more than half of world population women still have a very modest role in political processes. This phenomenon is conditioned by a variety of structural, functional and socialpsychological factors which vary in different cultures and ...
Gohar Shahnazaryan, Siran Hovhannisyan
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Public Priorities: Deficit Rising, Terrorism Slipping [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Presents - by age, gender, political affiliation, and income - survey findings about Americans' priorities with respect to domestic and foreign policy issues as well as economic, fiscal, social, national security, and environmental ...

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Sustainable Productivity Growth in Agriculture: The Role of Shifts in R&D Investments and Technology

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The objective of the paper is to evaluate the long‐term prospects of sustainable productivity growth linked to plausible assumptions on public agricultural R&D investments as the key productivity driver. Second, it investigates the role of changing R&D focus from yield maximization to input saving technologies (fertilizers and pesticides). The
Zuzana Smeets Křístková   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Tadzhikistan-Russia: Geopolitical Relations at the Turn of the Century

open access: yesVestnik MGIMO-Universiteta, 2015
RETRACTEDIn this article the writer analyses the development peculiarities of the Tajik-Russian geopolitical relations during the establishment of Tajikistan foreign policy up to the commencement of multi-vector «open doors» policy in 2003-2004.
Z. S. Saidzoda
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The urban–rural divide in policy priorities across time and space

open access: yesPolitical Science Research and Methods
Despite growing interest in the political consequences of the urban–rural divide, we know little about whether urban and rural populations differ in the policy problems they view as most important.
Tevfik Murat Yildirim, Knut M. Solvig
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Overcoming the risk of inaction from emissions uncertainty in smallholder agriculture [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
The potential for improving productivity and increasing the resilience of smallholder agriculture, while also contributing to climate change mitigation, has recently received considerable political attention (Beddington et al 2012). Financial support for
C M Ryan   +8 more
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Temperature Sensitivity and Adaptation of Cereal Yields: Empirical Evidence From Italy

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper investigates the evolving temperature sensitivity and climate adaptation of cereal yields in Italy from 1952 to 2023, using province‐level data for maize, common wheat, and durum wheat. Employing panel data econometric methods, we estimate yield responses to heat exposure, changes in sensitivity over time, and adaptation to climate ...
Paolo Nota   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Peculiarities of Political Participation of Syrian Armenians in RA

open access: yesBanber Erevani Hamalsarani. Sots'iologia, 2016
Syrian Armenians had a passive role in the political life of Syria, as they were an important part of Armenian Diaspora and had responsibilities related to special functions, priorities, ethnic preservation, participation in social and economic life ...
Gayane Hakobyan
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