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Assessing Haitian Consumers' Willingness to Pay a Premium for Aflatoxin‐Compliant Peanut Butter in the Informal Market

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Market‐based solutions are increasingly tested to address aflatoxin issues in peanuts in developing countries. Although previous studies have found that Haitian grocery store shoppers are willing to pay a 21% premium for peanut butter with levels of aflatoxin that meet international standards, no information is available for the much larger ...
Phendy Jacques, Stevens Azima, Maurice Doyon   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Impact of Social Capital on Community Resilience: A Comparative Study of Seven Flood-Prone Communities in Nanjing, China

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Social capital plays a crucial role in enhancing community resilience during flood disasters. This study investigates the influence of social capital on community resilience in Nanjing, China.
Yi Chen, Hui Liu, Shuchang Lin, Yueping Wang, Qian Zhang, Liaoling Feng   +5 more
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The Impact of Cancel Culture on Politics and International Relations

Vestnik MGIMO-Universiteta, 2023
The article aims to reveal particularities of cancel culture in politics and international relations using methods of sociology and conflict theory. Deriving from previous research of cancel culture, authors define cancel culture as non-institutionalized
L. V. Deriglazova, A. M. Pogorelskaya
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Evolving Neurocontrollers for the Control of Information Diffusion in Social Networks [PDF]

Proceedings of the Companion Publication of the 2015 Annual Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation, 2015
This paper presents a comparison of two Evolutionary Artificial Neural Network (EANN) variants acting as the autonomous control system for instances of the θ-Consensus Avoidance Problem (θ-CAP). A novel variant of EANN is proposed by adopting characteristics of a well-performing heuristic into the structural bias of the neurocontroller.
Andrew Runka, Tony White
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The Geography of Success: A Spatial Analysis of Export Intensity in the Italian Wine Industry

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper investigates the paradox of how Italy's fragmented, SME‐dominated wine industry achieves global export success. Moving beyond purely firm‐centric explanations, we test whether export intensity is spatially dependent, clustering geographically in regional ecosystems.
Nicolas Depetris Chauvin, Jonas Di Vita
wiley   +1 more source

Ambidextrous learning of engineering project team: Relying on control or BIM AI VR AR MR?

International Journal of Engineering Business Management, 2020
Through formal control and social control, technology platforms can acquire the information knowledge needed for ambidextrous learning of engineering project team, but whether technology platforms influence ambidextrous learning of engineering project ...
Suying Yang, Guiyun Cui, Shaokai Lu
doaj   +1 more source

Too Complex to Choose? The Role of Heuristics in Shaping Farmers' Willingness to Pay for Income Stabilization Tool in Italy

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT European agriculture is increasingly exposed to economic instability driven by extreme weather events, market volatility, and geopolitical tensions. To manage these growing risks, farmers are encouraged to adopt innovative risk management strategies such as the Income Stabilization Tool (IST), which offers protection against severe income ...
Alice Stiletto, Ruggiero Rippo, Samuele Trestini, Elisa Giampietri, Roberta Raffaelli, Simone Cerroni   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

An investigation of the factors underlying informal settlement growth: The case of Burayu City, Ethiopia

Heliyon
Informal settlements in developing countries' cities are becoming more and more widespread. The city of Burayu is no exception to this trend. To address the challenges involved, it is important to understand the reasons for the prevalence and ...
Tefera Beyera Bayuma, Birhanu Girma Abebe   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Association between Social Relationship and Glycemic Control among Older Japanese: JAGES Cross-Sectional Study.

PLoS ONE, 2017
AimThe present study examined whether social support, informal socializing and social participation are associated with glycemic control in older people.MethodsData for this population-based cross-sectional study was obtained from the Japan ...
Kenichi Yokobayashi, Ichiro Kawachi, Katsunori Kondo, Naoki Kondo, Yuiko Nagamine, Yukako Tani, Kokoro Shirai, Susumu Tazuma, JAGES group   +8 more
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Pesticide MRLs as Trade Barriers: Evidence From Vietnam's Coffee and Rice Exporters

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As tariffs have declined globally through bilateral and regional trade agreements, food safety standards have emerged as significant determinants of agricultural trade flows. This study examines the impact of maximum residue limits (MRLs) for five pesticides—Azoxystrobin, Chlorpyrifos, Chlorantraniliprole, Clothianidin, and Cyhalothrin—on ...
Nhat Mai Nguyen, Hoa‐Thi‐Minh Nguyen, Kaliappa Kalirajan   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source