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Study of the Targeted Regulation of Rice Drying Characteristics and Quality

open access: yesApplied Sciences
As the pre-process of storage and processing, rice drying is a key link to ensuring grain quality. A scientific and reasonable drying process can maintain grain quality and realize grain loss reduction, energy savings, and emission reduction.
Jinquan Li, Xiaokang Yi, Yi Jin
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Measuring the Quality of Banking Regulation in Egypt [PDF]

open access: yes
The free market economy most countries pursue nowadays is never entirely free from government intervention. Policy makers devote special attention to the regulation of financial markets and with the current financial crisis, the quality of the banking ...
Silvia Rashad Gad Tadros
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The Environment and Civil War: Exploring the Relationship Between the Environmental Performance Index and Incidence of Internal Armed Conflict

open access: yes, 2015
The state of the environment is receiving increasing attention. Environmental quality’s possible relationship to violent conflict attracts both popular and academic interest.
Krohn, Katerina N.
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Consumer Price Index Data Quality: How Accurate is the U.S. CPI? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
The Consumer Price Index (CPI) is an estimate of the average change in prices over time paid by urban consumers for a market basket of consumer goods and n the United States. The CPI is used extensively in many different ways, including three major uses:
Reed, Stephen B, Rippy, Darren A
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The Growth Effects of Institutional Instability [PDF]

open access: yes
Both institutional quality and institutional stability have been argued to stimulate economic growth. But to improve institutional quality, a country must endure a period of institutional change, which implies at least a little and possibly a lot of ...
Berggren, Niclas   +2 more
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Composite Indices of Human Well-being: Past, Present, and Future [PDF]

open access: yes
human well-being, composite well-being indices, income per capita, Human Development Index, Physical Quality of Life ...
McGillivray, Mark, Noorbakhsh, Farhad
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Water quality evaluation in Mediterranean Lagoons using the Multimetric Phytoplankton Index (MPI): study cases from Sardinia [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
1 - Water quality in four Sardinian lagoons (western Mediterranean Sea) was assessed using the Multimetric Phytoplankton Index (MPI), which is consistent with the EU Water Framework Directive.
Bazzoni, Anna Maria   +6 more
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Group acceptance sampling plan for exponential logarithmic distribution: an application to medical and engineering data

open access: yesCogent Engineering
In this study, we present a group-acceptance sampling plan (GASP) in which the lifetime of an item follows a two-parameter exponential logarithmic (EL) distribution.
Muhammad Ameeq   +5 more
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Equity in the City: On Measuring Urban (Ine)Quality of Life [PDF]

open access: yes
We merge contributions from the New Urban Economics and inequality measurement to assess quality of life (QOL) in a given city. We take the point of view of a city planner in favor of an even accessibility to amenities within the city.
Alessandra Michelangeli   +2 more
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Addressing the Quality Change Issue in the Consumer Price Index [PDF]

open access: yes
macroeconomics, consumption, consumer price index, quality change, CPI bias, retail, substitution ...
Brent R. Moulton, Karin E. Moses
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