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Staging an Experience of Cultural Heritage Preservation: Consumers' Willingness to Pay for Heirloom Rice in the Philippines

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Cordillera Administrative Region in the Philippines is home to terraced rice embedded in centuries of cultural heritage. However, weak market incentives threaten sustained production, jeopardizing indigenous communities' cultural heritage and the in situ biodiversity of rice genetic resources.
Kofi Britwum, Matty Demont
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Community Peace Work in Sri Lanka: A Critical Appraisal [PDF]

, 2002
YesThis paper looks at community peace work in Sri Lanka and represents work in its early stages. It provides a view of peace work from the perception of a Sri Lankan community peace activist.
Witharana, Dileepa
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Impact of Digital Ability and Rice Technology Adoption on Rice Farming Performance in Benin

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines the combined effects of digital ability and the adoption of various rice technologies among smallholder rice farmers, using GPS‐spatially matched data sources that include household surveys and a general census of rice value chain actors in Benin.
Landry Bellarmin Kassa, Takeshi Sakurai
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Vertical Price Transmission in Food Markets: New Evidence From Meta‐Analysis

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A growing body of empirical research has examined price dynamics along the food supply chain, yet findings remain heterogeneous and often conflicting. This study conducts a meta‐analysis of 140 studies, totaling 652 observations, to examine (1) the reported presence of asymmetric price transmission and (2) the reported direction of price ...
Sushan K C, Xiaoli Etienne, Andres Trujillo‐Barrera   +2 more
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Income Inequalities and Dental Caries in 12-Year-Olds: An Ecological Comparison Between a High- and a Lower-Middle-Income Country

Oral
Background/Objectives: This study aimed to assess whether income was associated with dental caries experience and dental care levels among 12-year-old children in two contrasting economic contexts, Sri Lanka (lower-middle-income) and Wales (high-income),
Dilini Lalanthi Ratnayake, Wayne Richards, Jamal Ameen, Anne-Marie Coll, Teresa Filipponi   +4 more
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A lower sleep regularity index (SRI) is associated with relapse in individuals with alcohol use disorder following inpatient treatment

Scientific Reports, 2022
The sleep regularity index (SRI) is used to measure an individual’s sleep/wake consistency over time. The SRI has been associated with certain health risks; to date, research investigating the relationship between the SRI and relapse in individuals with ...
Jennifer J. Barb, Alyssa T. Brooks, Narjis Kazmi, Li Yang, Subhajit Chakravorty, Gwenyth R. Wallen   +5 more
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Clinical utility of pharyngeal high‐resolution manometry with impedance for upper esophageal sphincter dysfunction in gastroenterology

Advances in Digestive Medicine, EarlyView.
Abstract Pharyngeal high‐resolution manometry with impedance (P‐HRM‐I) is an established assessment method used to evaluate pharyngeal swallowing. It provides precise quantification of swallowing biomechanics that enable the detection of alterations in swallowing physiology.
Mistyka Schar, Taher Omari, Michal Szczesniak, Chien‐Lin Chen, Richard Heddle, Charles Cock   +5 more
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Sleep Regularity Index After Stroke: Change Over Time and Its Association With Recovery: A Longitudinal Observational Study

Journal of the American Heart Association: Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease
Background Sleep–wake disruption is common after stroke and may impede recovery. The Sleep Regularity Index (SRI) quantifies the probability that an individual is in the same sleep or wake state at the same clock time on consecutive days.
George D. Fulk, Regina Bell, Keenan Batts, Karen Klingman, Emily Peterson   +4 more
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Computer Vision Pipeline for Image Analysis for Freeze‐Fracture Electron Microscopy: Rosette Cellulose Synthase Complexes Case

Advanced Intelligent Discovery, EarlyView.
This paper presents a computer vision (deep learning) pipeline integrating YOLOv8 and YOLOv9 for automated detection, segmentation, and analysis of rosette cellulose synthase complexes in freeze‐fracture electron microscopy images. The study explores curated dataset expansion for model improvement and highlights pipeline accuracy, speed ...
Siri Mudunuri, Leala Carbonneau, Eric M. Roberts, Alison W. Roberts, Candace H. Haigler, Alexey V. Gulyuk, Yaroslava G. Yingling   +6 more
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Women's health as state strategy : Sri Lanka's twentieth century [PDF]

Sri Lanka gained prominence in international policy circles as an apparent 'success story' first as a model colony in early 1950s and later as a development model for South Asia by 1970s.
Thoradeniya, Darshi Nayanathara
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