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Drivers of Farmers' Contract Compliance Behavior: Evidence From a Case Study of Dangote Tomato Processing Plant in Northern Nigeria

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Contract farming is a viable strategy agribusinesses rely on to strengthen coordination across actors in the value chain. However, low contract compliance remains a significant setback to agribusinesses' contract performance in low‐ and middle‐income country context.
Umar Shehu Umar   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Songs of Refusal

open access: yes
This paper brings theorisations of the refusal of work into dialogue with key figures in the Black radical tradition in order to conceive of song and musical practices as a refusal of the discipline of the wage and capitalist control over labour.
Rekret, P.
core   +3 more sources

Do Politically Motivated Import Bans Leave Lasting Scars? Evidence From Australian–Chinese Beef Trade

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In May 2020, China abruptly suspended imports from several major Australian beef processors, escalating a diplomatic dispute between the two countries. This trade measure disrupted one of the largest beef export relationships in the world almost overnight.
K. Aleks Schaefer, Youngjune Kim
wiley   +1 more source

A study of refusal expressions in Asian languages : a comparison of occurrences in semantic formulas and levels of closeness [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
本研究は、6つのアジア諸言語―日本語、インドネシア語、韓国語、ベトナム語、タガログ語、中国語―の断り表現を比較し、断り表現における意味公式の出現順序は、言語の構造(主要部先頭・最終)と関係があることを明らかにすることを目的とする。主要部先頭言語は、「断り」を他の意味公式より先に述べる傾向があり、一方、主要部最終言語は、他の意味公式を先に言ってから、「断り」を述べるという結果が見られた。This study investigated refusal expressions in six Asian ...
8000001636294   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Blockchain‐Based Smart Contracts in US Specialty Crop Marketing: Grower Preferences and Adoption Potential

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Using survey and discrete choice experiment data, we examined US specialty crop growers' preferences for marketing contract attributes in the context of emerging blockchain‐based technologies and expanding traceability initiatives. Results show that farmers preferred traditional written contracts but might be willing to accept digital ...
Elizabeth Canales   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

When the decision to die interferes with the duty to heal

open access: yesArchives of Public Health
Background This commentary was inspired by an encounter M. M. experienced while shadowing a physician in 2024. The physician referred an otherwise healthy patient between 64 and 74 years old for a routine colonoscopy due to relevant risk factors. However,
Maya Morcos, Amir-Ali Golrokhian-Sani
doaj   +1 more source

Unsealed 188Rhenium Resin Brachytherapy in Non-Surgical Candidates With Refractory Basal Cell Carcinoma: Clinical Outcomes

open access: yesDermatology Practical & Conceptual
Introduction: High-dose brachytherapy using a non-sealed 188Rhenium resin (188Re) is a new treatment option for difficult-to-treat basal cell carcinoma (BCC), that ensures a radical oncological outcome minimizing side effects.
Marco Adriano Chessa   +14 more
doaj   +1 more source

Preoperative FIB‐4 Index as a Potential Factor Associated With Severe Postoperative Complications and Endogenous Organ Failure After Hepatectomy for Hepatocellular Carcinoma

open access: yesAnnals of Gastroenterological Surgery, EarlyView.
This study demonstrates that a preoperative FIB‐4 index ≥ 5.0 independently predicts severe complications and endogenous organ failure (EOF) following hepatectomy for hepatocellular carcinoma. By capturing structural liver fragility and systemic vulnerability, the FIB‐4 index enhances surgical risk stratification beyond traditional functional markers ...
Masanori Nakamura   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Interaction Between Operator and Assistant Certification Is Associated With Local Recurrence After Laparoscopic Rectal Cancer Surgery: An Ancillary Analysis of the EnSSURE Study

open access: yesAnnals of Gastroenterological Surgery, EarlyView.
A significant synergistic interaction between operator and assistant certification was associated with a lower risk of local recurrence after laparoscopic rectal cancer surgery. Patients treated by both ESSQS‐qualified operators and assistants had the lowest risk of local recurrence, whereas a single qualification alone was not associated with a ...
Yusuke Sakimura   +114 more
wiley   +1 more source

Simpson's paradox and calculation of number needed to treat from meta-analysis. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2002
Background: Calculation of numbers needed to treat (NNT) is more complex from meta-analysis than from single trials. Treating the data as if it all came from one trial may lead to misleading results when the trial arms are imbalanced.
Wiffen Phillip   +27 more
core   +3 more sources

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