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IMPROVEMENT OF STOCHASTIC MODELLING SKILLS FOR A SUSTAINABLE EDUCATION IN ENGINEERING [PDF]

Journal of Sustainable Energy
Deterministic and stochastic models play an important role in engineering, economics, and the natural sciences. Despite this, the development of stochastic modelling skills in engineering students is less emphasized, and this part of modelling knowledge ...
D. SIPOS, C. BENDEA, I. KOCSIS
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Economic Analysis of Agricultural Investments [PDF]

Annals of Dunarea de Jos University. Fascicle I : Economics and Applied Informatics, 2009
The purpose of this paper is to introduce a modification of a standardfour input production process where energy is used in an inefficient way due topartly unnecessary waste of energy.
Adrian ZUGRAVU, Liliana Mihaela MOGA
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Effects of Outsourced Agricultural Extension Services on the Technical Efficiency and Financial Returns of Soybean Farms in Northern Cameroon

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In the agricultural landscape of most developing countries, the last decade has witnessed the expansion of outsourced agricultural extension services. Private firms and nongovernmental organizations focused on delivering agricultural extension and advisory services to farmers have emerged.
Boris D. Soh Wenda, Doria A. Medondjeu, Dorothy E. Fon, Stefan Sieber   +3 more
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Deforestation and Efficiency: Insights From Forest Transition in the Brazilian Cerrado

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper estimates technical efficiency (TE) and environmental efficiency (EE) of agricultural production at the municipal level of the Brazilian Cerrado in 2006 and 2017, and investigates their underlying mechanisms in relation to forest transition theory.
Ricardo Muniz Simões, Cassiano Bragagnolo, Humberto Francisco Silva Spolador   +2 more
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Interacting Large Language Model Agents. Bayesian Social Learning Based Interpretable Models

IEEE Access
This paper discusses the theory and algorithms for interacting large language model agents (LLMAs) using methods from statistical signal processing and microeconomics.
Adit Jain, Vikram Krishnamurthy
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Comparing alternatives to the fixed degree sequence model for extracting the backbone of bipartite projections

Scientific Reports, 2021
Projections of bipartite or two-mode networks capture co-occurrences, and are used in diverse fields (e.g., ecology, economics, bibliometrics, politics) to represent unipartite networks.
Zachary P. Neal, Rachel Domagalski, Bruce Sagan   +2 more
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Livelihood Diversification as an Adaptation Strategy to Climate Change and Household Food Security of Livestock Holders in Pakistan

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Rural farm households continue to face significant risks from climate change, resulting in many of them diversifying their livelihood sources into other income‐generating activities to increase their incomes and improve food and nutrition security. In this study, we examine the drivers and impact of farm households' participation in livelihood
Mahwish Arshad, Awudu Abdulai
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Value of Information of Improved Traceability in Fresh Produce Markets

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Traceability plays an important role in promoting a safe food supply by fostering transparent information exchange along the food supply chain. New technological innovations have the potential to improve traceability outcomes, as greater transparency along the food supply chain can aid in pinpointing precise origins of the contamination ...
Kelsey Vourazeris, Mark R. Manfredo, Michael N. Kozicki   +2 more
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Theoretical and Analytical Approach of Financial Stability: Islamic Perspective [PDF]

Turkish Journal of Islamic Economics
This paper theoretically investigates financial stability and assesses the impacts of central bank policies on the banking system. The Islamic finance system has empirically shown relative stability to the waves of the 2007-2008 international financial ...
Hassan Belkacem Ghassan, Noureddine Krichene   +1 more
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Stochastic volatility [PDF]

Given the importance of return volatility on a number of practical financial management decisions, the efforts to provide good real- time estimates and forecasts of current and future volatility have been extensive.
Torben G. Andersen, Luca Benzoni
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