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ABSTRACT Brassica napus (canola) is a significant contributor to the world's oil production and is cultivated across continents, yet acidic soils with aluminium (Al3+) and manganese (Mn2+) toxicities limit its production. The genetic determinants underlying natural variation for acidic soil tolerance in canola are unknown and need to be determined ...
Harsh Raman +13 more
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ABSTRACT Two major tasks in applications of hidden Markov models are to (i) compute distributions of summary statistics of the hidden state sequence, and (ii) decode the hidden state sequence. We describe finite Markov chain imbedding (FMCI) and hybrid decoding to solve each of these two tasks.
Zenia Elise Damgaard Bæk +3 more
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Modeling Downside Risks for China's Security Markets: Does Greenness Make Bonds a Safer Haven?
ABSTRACT Motivated by its current defective governance regime and institutional characteristics of green finance, this study models Value‐at‐Risk and Expected Shortfall of security markets for China. We extend Patton et al.'s (2019) models by introducing four exogenous risk factors including China's climate policy uncertainty (CCPU).
Xiao‐Ming Li
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Naming and Shaming to Protect Civilians During Peacekeeping: Lessons from South Sudan
Abstract What can the United Nations do to strengthen the protection of civilians when it fails? When missions struggle to protect civilians, high‐level naming and shaming of non‐responsive units within the operation can occur to reorient the operation. Shaming helps rehabilitate the operation and achieve the protection of civilians.
Gary Uzonyi
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Abstract This paper explores the commemorative practices of two feminist collectives engaging in anti‐feminicide collages in the cities of Paris and Montreuil. Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted between 2023 and 2025, it examines how these activist interventions, as temporary urban memorials, intersect memory‐work and care‐work in urban space ...
Morgane Rudaz
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The Direct and Indirect Effects of the Belt and Road Initiative on Exports to China
ABSTRACT This study investigates the direct effect of a country's participation in China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) on that country's exports to China, as well as the indirect effect of such participation on other countries' exports to China. Using panel data covering 187 countries from 2006 to 2023, we employ an event study approach, a staggered
Haonan Li, Yasuyuki Todo
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Grain sampling with hand and pneumatic probes
Abstract Grain sampling is an essential step in grain storage and commercialization processes. Bulk grain sampling methods for bulk grains in storage units, cooperatives, and agro‐industrial facilities use various types of equipment, including manual and pneumatic grain probes.
Luiz Cláudio Garcia +5 more
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A New Implementation of Network GARCH Model for Stock Volatility and Co‐Volatility Forecasting
ABSTRACT Volatility clustering and spillovers are key features of financial time series with many cross‐sectional assets. While network analysis links similar or correlated stocks and helps trace volatility spillovers, contemporary multivariate ARCH‐GARCH formulations struggle to represent structured network dependence and remain parsimonious.
Peiyi Zhou
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Contract Farming and Smallholder Profits in Bangladesh: Evidence From Mango, Tomato, and Potato
This study examines whether contract farming raises profitability among 1186 mango, tomato, and potato producers in eight districts of Bangladesh. Using 2SLS and complementary propensity score matching, contract participation is associated with about 32% higher unit profit.
Ehsanur Rauf Prince
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