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Quick Guide to What and How: increasing women's access to land [PDF]

, 2012
This document presents a guide which gives a brief overview of the challenges regarding women's access to land, outlines what needs to be done to increase women's access to land and provides Sida with some entry points for supportingprocesses where women

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Multidisciplinary Therapy to Target Obesity and Its Complications in Adult Population: A Narrative Review

Obesity Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Obesity as a chronic and multifactorial disease requires a multidisciplinary team acting together in a holistic multitarget intervention. Multidisciplinary therapy targeting obesity and its complications includes physical exercise, nutritional, and behavior counseling.
Ana Raimunda Dâmaso, Flávia Campos Corgosinho, Deborah Cristina Landi Masquio, Nayra Figueiredo, Fabiana Kattah, Cintia Cercato, Lian Tock, Raquel Munhoz da Silveira Campos   +7 more
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Performance trials on different rates and ratios of N and P fertilisation in Ethiopia to inform field-specific Maize-Nutrient-Management advisory [PDF]

, 2020
This report of the Scaling Readiness of Nutrient Management decision Support Tools project focuses on agronomic trials that serve to inform the development of scalable, field-specific advisory for maize farmers in Ethiopia. These trials were conducted to
Andersson, Jens A., Hijbeek, Renske, Sida, Tesfaye Shiferaw   +2 more
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Legacy effects of livestock grazing on vegetation of an arid landscape exist more than 30 years after livestock were excluded

Restoration Ecology, EarlyView.
Abstract Introduction Globally, livestock grazing is a key driver of vegetation degradation in arid rangelands. This degradation tends to be most severe near artificial water points which are focal points for livestock activity. Conservation reserves have been established on former rangelands; however, the timeframes for vegetation recovery following ...
Neil D. Ross, Adrian Fisher, Mike Letnic
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Invasion of a littoral cladoceran Sida crystallina into the pelagic zone of Christine Lake, NH and its potential impact on the phytoplankton community [PDF]

, 2011
This study evaluated the phytoplankton community and grazing influences of the zooplankton in oligotrophic Christine Lake, NH, by assessing the body size and clearance rates of the three dominant crustaceans: Sida crystallina (0.08 individuals L-1 ...
Huey, Kayla N.
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The Goldilocks Effect: How the “Just Right” Writing Styles of Global Corporate Responsibility Frameworks Shapes Their Use by Businesses

Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The 21st century has witnessed a surge in the number of global corporate responsibility (GCR) frameworks issued by international organizations (IOs). Our study investigates whether and to what extent these frameworks shape businesses' Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) communications.
Adam William Chalmers, Robyn Klingler‐Vidra   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Profil national des indicateurs d´alerte précoce de la pharmaco-résistance du VIH au Cameroun

The Pan African Medical Journal, 2020
INTRODUCTION: Depuis le lancement en 2015 de la stratégie « Traitement pour tous » au Cameroun, un plan d´accélération du traitement antirétroviral (TARV) est mis en œuvre avec des progrès remarquables.
Serge Clotaire Billong, Calixte Ida Penda, Joseph Fokam, Anaba Ernest Mvilongo, Raoul Fodjo, Arlette Messeh, Jean de Dieu Anoubissie, Cyprien Kegne, Gildas Nguekam, Yanick Aimé Batamack, Edson Joan Billong, Pamela Reine Moutapam, Alexis Ndjolo, Leonard Bonono, Jean Bosco Elat, Anne Cécilé Zoung-Kanyi Bissek   +15 more
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Relaxations for inference in restricted Boltzmann machines [PDF]

, 2014
We propose a relaxation-based approximate inference algorithm that samples near-MAP configurations of a binary pairwise Markov random field. We experiment on MAP inference tasks in several restricted Boltzmann machines. We also use our underlying sampler
Frostig, Roy, Liang, Percy, Manning, Christopher D., Wang, Sida I.   +3 more
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Women's Empowerment and Intra‐Household Bargaining Power

Review of Development Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We assess the effectiveness of the Abbreviated Women's Empowerment in Agriculture Index (A‐WEAI) in predicting intra‐household bargaining power. We conducted a lab‐in‐the‐field experiment with agricultural households, where spouses made decisions about money allocations.
Marina Nacka, Andreas C. Drichoutis, Rodolfo M. Nayga Jr.   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Two Pathways to Proletarianization: Understanding Professionals' Adaptation to the “Corporatization” of Chinese Law Firms

Sociological Forum, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines how lawyers in China adapt to the “corporatization” of law firms, which limits their professional autonomy within bureaucratic structures. “Proletarianization” theory, which emerged in the 1970s, effectively explains employment relations and internal stratification within the legal profession, but it has been underestimated
Xinyi Shen
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