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How Competitive Is Myanmar's Rice Sector? A Comparison of Production Costs and Efficiency
ABSTRACT This paper analyzes the cost competitiveness of rice production in Myanmar by examining production costs, cost efficiency, and the potential effect of improving cost efficiency on the country's global competitiveness. To achieve this, we conduct a comparative analysis of production costs among major rice‐producing countries and estimate the ...
Nandar Aye Chan+3 more
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Trump Tariffs 2.0: Assessing the Impacts on US Distilled Spirits Imports
ABSTRACT The proposed 25% tariff on Mexico and Canada could have significant repercussions on US imports of distilled spirits. This study estimates US import demand across various spirit categories (e.g., tequila, whiskey) and assesses the potential impact of the proposed tariff.
Andrew Muhammad
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Structural Periodic Vector Autoregressions [PDF]
While seasonality inherent to raw macroeconomic data is commonly removed by seasonal adjustment techniques before it is used for structural inference, this approach might distort valuable information contained in the data. As an alternative method to commonly used structural vector autoregressions (SVAR) for seasonally adjusted macroeconomic data, this
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Seasonal and Diurnal Changes in the Water Contents and Water Deficits of Bartlett Pear Leaves
Wm. B. Ackley
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Seasonal variations in host-parasite relations between fish and their Protozoa [PDF]
Elmer R. Noble
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Mortality and anastomotic leakage, two very important complications assessed in SMR, did not worsen during the pandemic compared to prepandemic levels. In Japan, laparoscopic surgery was safe and unaffected by the COVID‐19 pandemic even in 2022, when the epidemic spread.
Masafumi Inomata+14 more
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Redefining Influenza Transmission Seasonality Using the Novel Seasonality Index [PDF]
The impact of climate conditions on influenza epidemiology has mostly been studied by addressing a singular aspect of transmission and a climate variable correlating to it. As climate change unfolds at an unprecedented rate, we urgently need new multidisciplinary approaches that can embrace complexity of disease transmission in the fast-changing ...
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OCEAN TEMPERATURES AND SEASONAL RAINFALL IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
George F. McEwen
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