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ECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF MILK QUOTA SYSTEM IN THE EUROPEAN UNION AGRICULTURAL POLICY

open access: yesEkonomika Poljoprivrede (1979), 2010
The main aim of this paper is to analyze the effects of the quotas imposed on the milk production in Common Agricultural Policy of the European Union. It is concluded that the quotas system is, in conceptual sense, a weaker solution than a free market ...
Vladimir Grbić   +2 more
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Representações sociais das cotas raciais em duas universidades públicas do Estado do Rio de Janeiro: um estudo comparativo

open access: yesRevista Educação e Cultura Contemporânea, 2013
O sistema de cotas que existe no Brasil é acionado para sanar algum tipo de acessibilidade negada historicamente a determinados grupos sociais. O presente trabalho se pautou especificamente na discussão acerca das cotas raciais.
Luciene Alves Miguez Naiff   +1 more
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Lejos del poder : Hacia la implementación de una ley de cuotas en Chile [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
This essay intends to justify, from the point of view of equality - as it has been stated in the Chilean Constitution - a system of electoral quotas that helps to reverse the limited participation of women in public life.

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Navigating Whiteness in Australia's Anti‐Racism Movement: A Duoethnographic Inquiry by Women of Colour Scholars

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper applies Critical Race Theory (CRT) to explore how whiteness operates within Australia's anti‐racism movement as a structuring force that shapes discourse, practice and policy. Despite the anti‐racism movement offering crucial spaces for resistance and reform, it remains entangled in Australia's settler‐colonial present and systemic ...
Franka Vaughan, Aish Ravi
wiley   +1 more source

Pricing Carbon for Electricity Generation: National and International Dimensions [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
In this paper, which forms a chapter in the forthcoming Book “Delivering a Low Carbon Electricity System: Technologies, Economics and Policy”, Grubb and Newbery examine how carbon for electricity generation should be priced.
Grubb, Michael, Newbery, David
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‘Giving Back to Our Community’: The Retention of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Disability Workforce in New South Wales, Australia

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people of Australia require culturally responsive services. The Australian government has committed to establishing strategies to increase the size of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander disability workforce; however, there is scant research on the factors influencing retention.
J. Gwynn   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Policy-change Triggered Environmental Uncertainty in a Dairy Cooperative: The Case of Mila in South Tyrol

open access: yesInternational Journal on Food System Dynamics, 2016
On April 1st 2015, the European Union lifted its quotas for dairy production, a system that has been in place since 1984. Prior to this, the region of South Tyrol in Northern Italy enjoyed protection from the constraints and penalties of overproduction ...
Sylvain Charlebois
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Integer programming methods for special college admissions problems [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
We develop Integer Programming (IP) solutions for some special college admission problems arising from the Hungarian higher education admission scheme. We focus on four special features, namely the solution concept of stable score-limits, the presence of
A Kwanashie   +19 more
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Hepatic morphology and serum biochemical profile according to dry and rainy seasons in Pygocentrus nattereri (Characiformes: Serrasalmidae)

open access: yesThe Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
Abstract This study investigated the physiological and morphological adaptations of the liver of the carnivorous fish Pygocentrus nattereri (piranha) in response to seasonal variations (dry and rainy seasons) in the Brazilian Pantanal. The objective was to describe how the liver, a central organ in metabolic regulation, responds to environmental ...
Maria Eduarda Corona Garcia   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Blockchain-Based REC System for Improving the Aspects of Procedural Complexity and Cyber Security

open access: yesIEEE Access
In response to global efforts to deal with climate change, various renewable energy policies are being implemented. Among these, renewable portfolio standards (RPS) and renewable energy 100 (RE100) regulate the obligated supply of renewable energy to ...
Yeonouk Chu   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

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