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How are physical and social spaces related? – cognitive agents as the necessary “glue” [PDF]
, 2003 There have been very few models which explicitly include actions and effects within a physical space as well as communication and action within a social space.
Edmonds, Dr Bruce
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Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Amid rising food and fertilizer prices, understanding farmers' policy preferences is critical for effective crisis response. We use best‐worst scaling experiment to assess Kenyan mobile‐owning crop farmers' preferences for government support under high and normal price scenarios.
Mywish K. Maredia +4 more
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Motivations, Values and Emotions: 3 sides of the same coin [PDF]
, 2006 This position paper speaks to the interrelationships between the three concepts of motivations, values, and emotion. Motivations prime actions, values serve to choose between motivations, emotions provide a common currency for values, and emotions ...
Franklin, Stan, Ramamurthy, Uma
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Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Rice is the main staple food for more than half of the world's population and the income from rice is an essential source for livelihoods of millions of households. We examine whether direct seed in rice production is an adaptation of rice farmers to rainfall changes and farm labor scarcity.
Manh Hung Do
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Sustainable Productivity Growth in Agriculture: The Role of Shifts in R&D Investments and Technology
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The objective of the paper is to evaluate the long‐term prospects of sustainable productivity growth linked to plausible assumptions on public agricultural R&D investments as the key productivity driver. Second, it investigates the role of changing R&D focus from yield maximization to input saving technologies (fertilizers and pesticides). The
Zuzana Smeets Křístková +4 more
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Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We link American Community Survey and SNAP records for 185,000 units with ground‐sourced social food infrastructure data from FindFoodIL (Illinois Extension SNAP‐Ed) to examine SNAP participation determinants among eligible units. Bivariate probit models reveal, beyond SNAP offices, quantity of social infrastructure is associated with ...
Michael Lotspeich‐Yadao +3 more
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Measuring Nutrition Security Using the Consumer Food Data System Datasets
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Nutrition security is an emerging concept lacking a consensus definition, conceptualization, or standardized measure. This perspectives manuscript synthesizes findings from two previously published analyses to assess the feasibility of using available measures of key dimensions of nutrition security from two Consumer Food Data System (CFDS ...
Vibha Bhargava +2 more
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Why Didn't I Get a Payout? Understanding Farmer Choices, Index Insurance, and Basis Risk
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Index insurance, while heralded as a potential solution to alleviate poverty and food insecurity among agricultural households, has its own set of challenges, notably basis risk. Basis risk is the discrepancy between the insurance payout and losses incurred, posing a significant deterrent to the adoption of index insurance.
S. Lucille Blakeley +4 more
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Distributed Reasoning: An Analysis of Where Social and Cognitive Worlds Fuse [PDF]
, 1996 The goal of this paper was to examine the influence of social and cognitive factors on distributed reasoning within the context of scientific laboratory meetings. We investigated whether a social factor, status, and cognitive factors such as discussion topic and time orientation of the research influenced distributed reasoning.
Dama, Mike, Dunbar, Kevin
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Frame Modeling of Social Emotion of Pride in the Context of Distributed Cognition Theory
Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2015 AbstractIn this article we describe a case study in our practice of frame modeling of social emotion of pride in cognitive experience of Russians. Target problem of insufficiency of lexical means expressing the emotion of pride neither for the finding out situations of feeling pride nor for linguistic data retrieving while modeling the frame of PRIDE ...
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