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Adapting to Changing Rainfall and Developing Off‐Farm Employment: Implications for the Adoption of Direct Seeding in Rice Production

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Rice is the main staple food for more than half of the world's population and the income from rice is an essential source for livelihoods of millions of households. We examine whether direct seed in rice production is an adaptation of rice farmers to rainfall changes and farm labor scarcity.
Manh Hung Do
wiley   +1 more source

Noninvasive tests for nonalcoholic fatty liver disease in a multi‐ethnic population: The HELIUS study

Hepatology Communications, EarlyView., 2022
Abstract Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is increasing in prevalence and severity globally, prompting noninvasive testing, yet limited data exist on noninvasive liver tests (NITs) including transient elastography (TE) in ethnically diverse populations.
Anne‐Marieke van Dijk, Yasaman Vali, Anne Linde Mak, Henrike Galenkamp, Max Nieuwdorp, Bert‐Jan van den Born, Adriaan Georgius Holleboom   +6 more
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El plan de desarrollo y las dos crisis de la economía colombiana

Revista Controversia, 1983
El plan "Cambio con Equidad" de la administración de Betancur enfrenta una situación de crisis muy intensa de la economía colombiana: por un lado, contagio de la recesión internacional, o sea faltantes de demanda en particular externa y, por otro ...
Salomon Kalmanovitz
doaj  

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

Applied 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, Michiel van Dijk, Robert M'Barek, Hans van Meijl, Tomas Ratinger   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Investment risk assessment of social capital in urban rail transit Public-Private Partnership projects

Journal of Asian Architecture and Building Engineering
The Public-Private Partnership (PPP) is one of the crucial ways to promote the advancement of the Urban Rail Transit Project However, investing in such projects exposes social capital to tremendous risks.
Yuhao Sun, Mengkai Liu, Shengyue Hao, Meng Wei   +3 more
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Temporary Programs, Lasting Questions: Ad Hoc Assistance in the U.S. Farm Safety Net

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Large ad hoc assistance programs have returned to U.S. farm policy since 2017, operating alongside a more developed safety net built around federally subsidized crop insurance, Title I commodity programs, and standing disaster assistance. This paper reviews the renewed use of ad hoc assistance, documents its recent scale using USDA data, and ...
Alejandro Plastina, Oranuch Wongpiyabovorn   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Repositorio de datos para investigaciones en gestión de proyectos

Revista Cubana de Ciencias Informáticas, 2019
Los repositorios de datos permiten el desarrollo de investigaciones, el descubrimiento de conocimiento y la prueba de nuevos algoritmos de aprendizaje. El presente trabajo tiene como objetivo presentar un repositorio para el desarrollo de investigaciones
Pedro Piñero Pérez, Iliana Pérez Pupo, Claudia C. Rivero Hechavarría, Clarisbel Rojas Lusardo, Rosel González Sosa, Surayne Torres López   +5 more
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How Competitive Is Myanmar's Rice Sector? A Comparison of Production Costs and Efficiency

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper analyzes the cost competitiveness of rice production in Myanmar by examining production costs, cost efficiency, and the potential effect of improving cost efficiency on the country's global competitiveness. To achieve this, we conduct a comparative analysis of production costs among major rice‐producing countries and estimate the ...
Nandar Aye Chan, Orkhan Sariyev, Mohammad Ariful Islam, Manfred Zeller   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Cambio con equidad vs. Equidad con cambio

Revista Controversia, 1983
El presente documento contiene una serie de inquietudes acerca del tratamiento dado por el Plan "Cambio con Equidad" a lo social. Teniendo en cuneta que es considerable el material existente sobre el plan para analizar sus incosistencias, puntos oscuros,
Fernando Tenjo Galarza
doaj  

A Factor‐Analytic Approach for Psychometric Properties of the Repetitive Behaviors Questionnaire‐3 (RBQ‐3) for Turkish Population

Autism Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Restricted and repetitive behaviors (RRBs) are one of the diagnostic criteria for autism spectrum disorders (ASD), as well as being found in the general population. The current study aims to explore the psychometric properties of the Turkish self‐report and informant‐report forms of the Repetitive Behaviors Questionnaire‐3 (RBQ‐3) for ...
Volkan Avşar, Hatice Şengül Erdem, Asiye Şengül Avşar   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source