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Regulatory systems, institutions and practices [PDF]

, 2014
Regulation is a fact of life. It affects the food we eat, the safety of our workplace, the goods and services we buy and sell and the quality of our natural environment.
Judy Kavanagh, Steven Bailey
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Do Tax Incentives for Farmland Leases Increase Farm Supply? Evidence From Iowa's Beginning Farmer Tax Credit

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In recent decades, agriculture has become increasingly concentrated through horizontal mergers and acquisitions via corporate entities, and policy makers are concerned this will be exacerbated by the aging population of farm operators. To reduce market concentration in agriculture, many states have enacted policies to entice new prospective ...
Justin M. Ross, Wesley M. Zebrowski, Julia C. D. Valliant   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

La mobilità intelligente: miglioramento del well-being e salvaguardia dell’ecosistema

European Journal of Volunteering and Community-Based Projects
Purpose: The article aims to investigate the actors who generate ecosystem value, the stakeholders who capture it, the concept of value generated/captured, focusing on the field of Smart Mobility (SM).
Helena Biancuzzi, Francesca Dal Mas, Maurizio Massaro, Carlo Bagnoli   +3 more
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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
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The Influence of the Adsorbents Used on Changes in the Quality Parameters of Pumpkin Seed Oil as a Result of a Single-Stage Refining Process

Molecules
This study aimed to evaluate the impact of low- and high-temperature bleaching processes on the quality parameters of pumpkin seed oil. The research focused on optimizing the process to improve the oil’s physicochemical properties while reducing losses ...
Kamil Czwartkowski, Edyta Nizio, Damian Marcinkowski, Dominik Kmiecik, Anna Grygier, Aleksander Siger, Wojciech Golimowski   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Measuring Nutrition Security Using the Consumer Food Data System Datasets

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Nutrition security is an emerging concept lacking a consensus definition, conceptualization, or standardized measure. This perspectives manuscript synthesizes findings from two previously published analyses to assess the feasibility of using available measures of key dimensions of nutrition security from two Consumer Food Data System (CFDS ...
Vibha Bhargava, Jung Sun Lee, Travis A. Smith   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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

THE EFFECTS OF TELEWORK ON ORGANISATION AND BUSINESS TRAVEL An exploratory study on a university context [PDF]

In recent years, many companies have implemented telework to improve work efficiency and quality of life for employees. Transport planners attempt to assist companies in reducing business travel time losses related to traffic congestion by stimulating ...
A.I.J.M van der Hoorn, H.N. Lim, V.A.W.J Marchau   +2 more
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The Biofuels Blueprint: Understanding the U.S. Renewable Fuel Standard

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We provide a comprehensive review of the U.S. Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS), synthesizing nearly two decades of program evolution, market outcomes, and economic analysis. The RFS mandates minimum volumes of renewable fuel blending through a nested structure based on life‐cycle greenhouse gas reductions, enforced via tradeable Renewable ...
Maria Gerveni, Todd Hubbs, Scott H. Irwin, James H. Stock   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Swedish farmers' approval of nudges

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
Abstract Interest in the use of behavioral policy approaches, such as nudges, has strongly increased over the past years, including in the domains of food, agricultural and environmental policies. While the approval of nudges among the general public has been studied extensively, we know little about the attitude of farmers toward nudging. Farmers may (
Liesbeth Colen, Leon Englberger, Jens Rommel   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source