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Book Reviews

open access: yesNWIG, 1998
-Lennox Honychurch, Robert L. Paquette ,The lesser Antilles in the age of European expansion. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1996. xii + 383 pp., Stanley L. Engerman (eds) -Kevin A.
Redactie KITLV
doaj  

Noblemen, Knights and Dukes: representation of the noble estate in Don Quixote

open access: yesEstudios de Teoría Literaria, 2019
To analyze the representation of the noble class in the first and the second part of Don Quixote, written ten years apart (1605 and 1615 respectively) we notice certain similarities, mainly that, in both cases, the characters of the nobility are quantitatively very lower level State-owned characters, and appearing in two parts by members of the high ...
openaire   +1 more source

Markets Mitigate Land‐Use Competition From Energy Crops and Increase Farm Revenues

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Meeting the US Sustainable Aviation Fuel Grand Challenge target of 35 billion gal annually by 2050 will require an estimated 380 million–700 million dry tons of agricultural biomass feedstock. This study evaluates the implications of large‐scale biomass production for land use, crop production, and market outcomes under mature market ...
Daniel G. De La Torre Ugarte   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Interstices Issue 14: Immaterial Materialities CFP

open access: yesInterstices, 2013
Materiality has recently claimed centre stage in architectural discourse and practice, yet its critical meaning is ever receding. Tropes like material honesty, digital materiality, material responsiveness and dematerialisation mark out an ...
Editor Interstices
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Do outgrower schemes enhance technology adoption and productivity? Evidence from maize farmers in Northern Ghana

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
Abstract Nucleus outgrower schemes are contractual arrangements where well‐resourced large‐scale farmers (nucleus farmers) are empowered by development support agencies to take charge of smallholder farmers, by providing them with market access and the necessary training on agronomic practices and farm inputs for production.
Dominic Tasila Konja, Awudu Abdulai
wiley   +1 more source

Analyzing individual rent price ratios in eastern German agricultural land markets: A GAMLSS approach

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
Abstract This study explores the rent price ratio in agricultural land markets, crucial for evaluating market efficiency, policy needs, and farmer decision‐making. Traditionally, the analyses faced challenges due to the absence of concurrent sale and rent data for the same land, potentially leading to biased results.
Marius Michels   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Skills Gap Analysis of Farmer Directors of US Farmer Cooperatives

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Boards of directors are vital to firm performance and are an integral part of the decision‐making process of any business. Several studies have been conducted that observe corporate or nonprofit board characteristics, skills, and the board's connection to firm performance.
Jody S. Herchenbach   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Integrated or segmented? a wavelet transform analysis on relationship between stock and real estate markets [PDF]

open access: yes
The goal of this paper is to investigate the relationship between stock and real estate markets via wavelet analysis. Based on wavelet transform, stock price index and REITs index are firstly decomposed into “volatility componentsâ€, that is, the ...
Ching-chin Chou, Show-lin Chen
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Jaroskav Andrusjak, Королевский совет как орган сословного представительства в чешских землях в период правления династии Ягеллонов (1471–1526) / The Royal Council as a Body of Estate-Based Representation in the Czech Lands during the Period of the Reign of the Jagiellonian Dynasty (1471-1526) [PDF]

open access: yesPLURAL. History, Culture, Society, 2015
The subject of this research is the Royal Council as the main body based on estate representation in the Czech lands during the reign of the Jagiellonian dynasty (1471-1526). The formation of the Royal Council took place during the 15th-16th century. It became the main organ of state power of the Czech Kingdom in 1471-1526.
openaire   +1 more source

Charting the Path to Increased Oil Palm Output in Ghana Beyond Area Expansion: Technology or Managerial Capacity — Which Leads the Way?

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study sets out to investigate the prospects for raising oil palm output in sub‐Saharan Africa, particularly Ghana, without further expansion of cropland. Given global concerns about oil palm's role in deforestation and land use change, the focus is on enhancing productivity on existing farmlands.
Jacob Asravor   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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