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Utah division of air quality modeling guidelines

, 1998
reportIndustry and control agencies have long expressed a need for consistency in the application of air quality models for regulatory purposes. This Utah Division of Air Quality (UDAQ) guideline document provides a common basis for estimating the air ...
Bureau of Economic and Business Research
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Do Universal Free School Meals Improve the Dietary Quality of Food‐At‐Home Purchases?

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Since 2014, the number of schools offering universal free meals to all enrolled children without requiring annual meal applications has increased meaningfully. Using USDA's Purchase to Plate Crosswalk, a difference‐in‐differences framework, and a nationwide consumer panel, the effect of universal‐free‐meal exposure on the diet quality of food ...
Xueying Ma, Andres Cuadros‐Meñaca, Michael R. Thomsen   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Integrating Perennial Groundcover in Corn and Soybean Acres: Impacts on U.S. Agriculture

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Sustainable agricultural practices such as cover cropping can improve soil health, water quality, and carbon sequestration, yet U.S. adoption remains limited due to economic and operational barriers. We evaluate market and economic impacts of integrating perennial groundcover into U.S.
Sagar Dahal, Amani Elobeid, John Crespi
wiley   +1 more source

Ex‐Ante Assessment of Farm Resilience to Institutional Shocks: A Modeling Approach

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Using the agent‐based model SWISSland, we simulate farm‐level responses and interactions under two institutional shocks: tariff reductions and direct payment reductions. Using a framework we developed, we assess resilience capacities, resilience attributes, and the provision of private and public goods, following the shock.
Nadja El Benni, Gabriele Mack
wiley   +1 more source

Factors affecting quality of life and learning-life balance of university students in business higher education

Humanities & Social Sciences Communications
This article examines the key factors that determine the quality of life of business students and the extent to which they achieve a learning-life balance, including the individual characteristics that influence them, with a particular focus on the role ...
Krisztina Szegedi, Zsuzsanna Győri, Tímea Juhász   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Cow or the Credit: Causal Relationship Between California Dairy Herd Consolidation and Anaerobic Digesters

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The California dairy industry has experienced considerable consolidation over the past 30 years. During this period, there has also been substantial technological innovation, implementation of the state's Low Carbon Fuel Standard program, and rapid adoption of anaerobic digesters.
Michael McCullough, Jarrett Hart
wiley   +1 more source

Analysis of Quality Distinctions of Pumpkin Seed Oil (Cucurbita pepo var. oleifera) and Walnut Oil (Juglans regia L.)

Molecules
The study aimed to characterize the quality and evaluate the content of bioactive substances in cold-pressed pumpkin seed and walnut oils obtained from the specific varieties (Cucurbita pepo var. oleifera and Juglans regia L.).
Kamil Czwartkowski, Edyta Nizio, Damian Marcinkowski, Dominik Kmiecik, Anna Grygier, Aleksander Siger, Wojciech Golimowski   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Extension Economists: Valued in Mission, Penalized in Practice

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As the public engagement arm of the land‐grant mission, we argue that Extension faculty in US agricultural economics departments face an identity crossroads as they struggle for institutional support. Specifically, we argue that Extension economists function as boundary‐spanning professionals within academic structures that often devalue ...
Trey Malone, Craig W. Carpenter, Courtney Bir, Andrew J. Van Leuven, Rebecca Wasserman‐Olin, Wendong Zhang   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING BASED ON THE RELATIONSHIP OF ELEMENTS OF THE SYSTEM MODEL OF BUSINESS PERFORMANCE CONNECTED TO THE QUALITY OF LIFE IN SMALL AND MEDIUM ENTERPRISES FROM THE ASPECT OF LEADERSHIP

Journal of Business Paradigms, 2016
The productivity and quality of life and work in SMEs affect all employees equally. Thus, the proper distribution of employee time in the production process or provision of services in SMEs yields good firm productivity. Serbia finds itself within such a
Oliver Momcilovic, Gordana Nikolic
doaj  

How does working time impact perceived mental disorders? New insights into the U-shaped relationship

Frontiers in Public Health
Based on a large-scale nationally representative survey in China, this paper uses the exogenous impact of automation on working hours as the instrumental variable to examine working time’s impact on perceived mental disorders, on the basis of dealing ...
Xiaoru Niu, Xiaoru Niu, Chao Li, Chao Li, Yuxin Xia   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source