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Global water: issues and insights [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
This book brings together some of the world’s leading water researchers with an especially written collection of chapters on: water economics; transboundary water; water and development; water and energy; and water concepts.
Chris White   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Identifying Research Fields within Business and Management: A Journal Cross-Citation Analysis [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
A discipline such as business and management (B&M) is very broad and has many fields within it, ranging from fairly scientific ones such as management science or economics to softer ones such as information systems.
Hair J   +5 more
core   +2 more sources

Participation in After-School Extracurricular Activities and Cognitive Ability Among Early Adolescents in China: Moderating Effects of Gender and Family Economic Status

open access: yesFrontiers in Pediatrics, 2022
Although theories and research suggest that participation in extracurricular activities plays an important role in adolescents’ cognitive development, few studies have addressed this issue among early adolescents in China. Based on the responses of 9,830
Yangu Pan, Di Zhou, Daniel Tan Lei Shek
doaj   +1 more source

Beyond the Ban—Shedding Light on Smallholders' Price Vulnerability in Indonesia's Palm Oil Industry

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Indonesian government imposed a palm oil export ban in April 2022 to address rising cooking oil prices. This study explores oil palm smallholders' vulnerability to the policy using descriptive statistics, Lasso, and post‐Lasso OLS regressions.
Charlotte‐Elena Reich   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Searching for the Kuhnian moment : the Black-Scholes-Merton formula and the evolution of modern finance theory [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
The Black-Scholes-Merton formula has been put to widespread use by options traders because it provides a means of calculating the theoretically 'correct' price of stock options.
Anderson R. J.   +22 more
core   +1 more source

Reinforcement Learning in Social Sciences: A Survey

open access: yesMulticriteria Algorithms with Applications
Reinforcement Learning (RL) has become one of the most prominent topics in artificial intelligence research. It is widely used in various fields, such as recommendation systems, psychology, economics, and natural language dialogue systems.
Doaa El-Shahat   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Livestock Tango: U.S. and Latin America Dance Together, but Who Will Lead?

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines the competitiveness between Latin American and U.S. livestock and meat sectors. We employ a computable general equilibrium modeling framework to evaluate two scenarios: coordinated improvements in Latin American productivity, transport efficiency, and market access (Scenario I), and the minimum productivity gains required ...
Taís C. Menezes   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Modulation of neural activity in the temporoparietal junction with transcranial direct current stimulation changes the role of beliefs in moral judgment

open access: yesFrontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2015
Judgments about whether an action is morally right or wrong typically depend on our capacity to infer the actor’s beliefs and the outcomes of the action.
Hang eYe   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Unraveling population trends in Italy (1921–2021) with spatial econometrics

open access: yesScientific Reports, 2023
Testing density-dependence and path-dependence in long-term population dynamics under differentiated local contexts contributes to delineate the changing role of socioeconomic forces at the base of regional disparities.
Leonardo Salvatore Alaimo   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Synergies in Agricultural Biodiversity Conservation: Decomposing the Interaction Between Nature Parks and Agri‐Environment Schemes

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Understanding how policy instruments with overlapping goals interact is crucial for leveraging their synergies. This study explores the mechanisms for regional nature parks (a form of protected areas that impose no restrictions on agriculture) to enhance the adoption of biodiversity‐conserving agri‐environment schemes (AES) in Switzerland ...
Yanbing Wang   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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