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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Quality in early childhood education and care (ECEC) is a contested concept and has generally been conceptualised by inter‐related indicators such as staff qualifications, educational environment, policy or child‐to‐staff ratios. There has been a more limited emphasis on how young children might perceive and experience quality.
Nikki Fairchild, Éva Mikuska
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Relevance for Using Machines Appropriate to Strip Tillage
IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering, 2019 Abstract To increase the quantity and quality of any product type, it is necessary to upgrade machines, improve production processes, and minimize costs. The treated surface density, the amount of removed and transferred material should be minimal, but sufficient to create optimal conditions for the subsequent operations implementation ...
V V Myalo +4 more
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Dryland maize yields and water use efficiency in response to tillage and nutrient management practices in China [PDF]
, 2009 Rainfed crop production in northern China is constrained by low and variable rainfall. This study explored the effects of tillage and nutrient management practices on maize (Zea mays L.) yield and water use efficiency (WUE), at Shouyang Dryland Farming ...
Zhao, Q. +5 more
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When Nature Counts: Corporate Biodiversity Attention and Access to Bank Finance
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper investigates whether corporate attention to biodiversity influences firms' access to bank loans, an overlooked question in the emerging biodiversity–finance literature. Using a novel, text‐based measure constructed from 446 biodiversity‐related keywords and applied to Chinese A‐share listed firms from 2000 to 2023, we show that ...
Ruxiao Li +3 more
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Productivity in a Strip Tillage Vegetable Production System
HortScience, 1987 Abstract Strip tillage was evaluated over a 2-year period as a cropping system for sites unsuitable for conventional tillage. Yields in clean cultivation and in 0.5- and 1.1-m strips tilled in established grass or grass/clover sod were compared in 1982 for sweet pepper ( Capsicum annuum
Sarah J. W. Loy +3 more
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Design and evaluation of a no-tillage seeder for small scale vegetable production using a two-wheeled tractor in Coahuila, Mexico [PDF]
, 2009 Currently used conventional tillage systems for small-scale vegetable production in the region of Saltillo, Coahuila, Mexico require a considerable amount of hand labor, energy and materials for all activities.
Hoogmoed, W.B. +3 more
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Carbon Energy, EarlyView.This review is devoted to introducing the structures and sodium storage mechanisms of hard carbon materials and analyzing the correlated advanced characterization techniques. The advanced characterization techniques are categorized based on the classification of signal sources.
Jiechang Gao +6 more
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Colonial and gendered peace: Decolonial perspectives on peace in Nagorno‐Karabakh
Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.Abstract This article critically interrogates peace processes in the aftermath of the First Nagorno‐Karabakh War by centering the lived experiences and political voices of Armenian and Azerbaijani internally displaced and refugee women, based on ethnographic fieldwork and in‐depth interviews conducted in 2019.
Ramil Zamanov
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The Potential of Strip Tillage and Rowcovers for Organic Cucurbit Production [PDF]
HortTechnology, 2016 Plasticulture systems, the use of polyethylene mulch on raised beds with drip irrigation, are commonly used for the production of many cucurbit (Cucurbitaceae) crops. Although the use of plasticulture systems has many benefits, disadvantages include plastic disposal issues and costs and the intensive tillage required for ...
Jason M. Lilley, Elsa S. Sánchez
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Minimum-tillage, mechanized sowing of pulses with two-wheel tractors [PDF]
, 2010 Pulse crops in Bangladesh are mainly low-input rainfed crops with broadcast sowing. Since the 1990s, rotary tillage two-wheel tractors (2WT) have largely replaced animal draft for crop establishment.
Esdaile, R.J. +9 more
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